Tips and Tricks

How to Structure Your Business Like a Football Team
Major football fan that I am, I’m still flying high from the Super Bowl. Part of why I love the game so much is because of what a good business model it would make for workplaces everywhere. If I could wave a magic wand and turn the world of work into a football game, these are the things that I would take:

• Structure & teamwork
• Management lessons

Small Businesses Turn to Circle Lending for Financing
"Peer-to-peer" or "circle" lending sites are offering entrepreneurs and business owners a new way to borrow money from relatives, acquaintances, or total strangers. Is this a good way to obtain business financing?

The Impact of In-Laws on a Family Business:

• Managing In-Laws
• How In-Laws Impact a Business
• How to Avoid the "Dark Side" of the In-Law Dilemma in Family Business

What to do When Your Sales Team "Hits the Wall"
Every business and every salesperson will eventually “hit the wall”. The business or salesperson will not be able to go any further, produce any more or reach the next level of sales and productivity.

This Year’s Super Bowl Advertising Trends Have Lessons for Us All
Aside from the perennial propensity for viewers to be offended by Super Bowl ads, perhaps the biggest story coming out of the Super Bowl XLII adfest was the emphasis this year on multichannel marketing, especially search marketing.

Retail

9 Tips for Blogging Success
Blogs are a good way to add content to your website, provide information to your customers, and expand your audience. Getting started is easy, but maintaining it is the difficult task...until it becomes a habit you feel you have to do. Think of it as coffee.

Understanding Your Phone Bill
This month I finally scrutinized my statement and realized I was paying too much and that I was overpaying for a service I did not order. Here are a few tips to help you get through the dozens of pages:

Construction

Creating a Construction Website: Introduction
We look at the advantages of creating a sophisticated website for your construction business, and outline the steps involved.