As the year winds down to what is called the “happiest time of the year,” the criminals you normally hear scurrying around like rats in the walls are poking their heads out to try to steal a little holiday cheer from you and yours. You are a target, your business is a target. Tis the season to protect yourself.
Tags: small business, fraud, phishing, holiday season
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Posted: 12/1/2008 | Comments (0)
Thanksgiving is a time to let go of the bad news around us and focus on what is positive in our lives. The following is a little reminder that there are good things happening in the world.
Tags: small business, good news, thanksgiving
Posted: 11/26/2008 | Comments (0)
In times of trouble, fraud is always rampant, and government agencies with billions of dollars to throw around in hopes of stimulating the economy make very tempting targets. Now it is the HUBZone Empowerment Contracting Program.
Tags: small business, sba, hubzone, fraud, aig
Posted: 11/25/2008 | Comments (0)
Recently, Bloomberg reported that the Federal Reserve has pledged more than $7.4 trillion to help work the credit markets loose. They are doing this while the FHA is backing more subprime loans, many of which originating with the same people who brought us to this crisis, are being made—loans that could finally kill the US economy for good.
Tags: small business, bailout, fed, fha, credit, credit crisis, subprime mortgages
Posted: 11/24/2008 | Comments (0)
There are business opportunities all over if you keep your eyes open and with the new administration coming in, many of those opportunities are going to be green and one such opportunity, supported by environmental experts, is the dry toilet. Still, is it a viable opportunity or an idea you should flush? That is the question.
Tags: small business, opportunity, world toilet organization, dry toilet
Posted: 11/21/2008 | Comments (3)
A North Carolina mail carrier buried years worth of junk mail in his yard, getting a fine, probation and community service in return. This, of course, begs the question, wasn't he already doing community service by burying the junk mail in the first place? It is a little more complicated than that.
Tags: small business, direct mail, junk mail, spam, mailman steve
Posted: 11/20/2008 | Comments (0)
It is one thing to destroy your own company, but quite another to destroy your company, cripple your industry and then fly in your company private jet to wheedle taxpayer money out of Congress so you can keep on with your wasteful ways. Pity, but there will likely be a bailout, but the least Congress can do is throw the Sarbanes-Oxley book at them.
Tags: small business, gm, ford, chrysler, automakers, bailout, congress
Posted: 11/19/2008 | Comments (0)
The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is likely to pass in the first 100 days of the Obama presidency and it is going to have profound effects on the relationship between management and labor and on how you run your business.
Tags: small business, unions, the employee free choice act, labor, congress, obama
Posted: 11/18/2008 | Comments (5)
Notice something different in your email inbox lately? Spam is down by a good 70%! How did it happen and how long will this blessed interlude continue? We have some answers and a bit of advice: Enjoy it while it lasts!
Tags: small business, spam, email, marketing
Posted: 11/17/2008 | Comments (1)
Sometimes, when things are tough and money is tight, you just have to have some creativity in the way you pay your bills, but this may be going a bit too far. Just remember: Spider drawings are not legal tender for any debts, public or private.
Tags: small business, bill payment, spider drawing
Posted: 11/14/2008 | Comments (1)
With the Big Three Automakers threatening bankruptcy if they don't get a government bailout, the question is whether it would be better: to let them go under and fall into the hands of a bankruptcy judge or bail them out and let them fall into the hands of Congress?
Tags: small business, gm, ford, chrysler, paulson, bailout, bankruptcy, economy
Posted: 11/13/2008 | Comments (13)
American Express is now a bank. Why? So they can get a piece of the bank bailout money, of course. There can be no other reason and it begs the question: How can I become a bank holding company and get my piece as well?
Tags: small business, american express, bank, bailout
Posted: 11/11/2008 | Comments (3)
There will always be customers that we like more than others. They spend more, they're easier to work with--there are all sorts of reasons. Still, how much better do you treat them than your other customers? United Airlines has answered that question and it makes me wonder if civility in marketing is on its way out.
Tags: small business, united, most-valued guests, customer service
Posted: 11/10/2008 | Comments (5)
Everyone here congratulates Barack Obama on his election victory. Now, the time has come to pull together as a nation behind the new president as he faces the challenges of today's world.
Tags: obama, change, president
Posted: 11/5/2008 | Comments (0)
The election is over and now it is time to put all the rhetoric aside and vote. However, before you walk into the voting booth, just ask yourself: Why am I voting for this candidate and not the other?
Tags: small business, mccain, obama, election day
Posted: 11/4/2008 | Comments (0)
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