Brian Tracy has an interesting article called Beware the Boomerang talking about evaluating business ideas and decisions. He’s summarizing a simple, but effective way to tell if someone or some business is successful: observe their trends of cause and effect. A business might get into an idea or product that has a short term gain, [...]

Almost everyone seems to want to have a killer ecommerce website that makes a ton of money. Well if you’ve been brave enough to start one, you probably found out real quick that its not as easy as folks make it out to be. Making ecommerce work takes patience and dedication. It also takes smarts. [...]

How do you stand out from the crowd of your competitors? Whatever business you’re in, you probably have TONS of competitors. Easier transportation, the web, and a still rapidly growing population means the number of your competitors will only grow larger. So how can you stand out in this sea of consumer options?

You have probably heard that after Google identified repeated hacking attacks on Chinese human rights activists Gmail accounts, the company decided, in direct opposition to the Government’s wishes, to stop censoring its search results in China. Besides being an interesting news story, does this have anything to do with your business? We believe it is [...]

The Small Business Success Index announced that social media use by small businesses has doubled since 2008. Why are small businesses jumping into social media so quickly? Isn’t social media just for kids and music bands? Well actually, no. Social media is being quickly adopted by many people of all ages and backgrounds. Your customers [...]