According to the Federal Trade Commission, approximately nine million Americans have their identities stolen each year. Data theft is a growing issue that can cost consumers and businesses millions of dollars repairing the damage to their name and credit record.
Cintas Corporation today issued a list of the top 10 tips for protecting business data:
Over the holidays, we reviewed all of the smart new business ideas we covered in 2009, and selected 10 that we believe will provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2010. Needless to say, it was a huge challenge to pick just 10 from such a wide range of innovative concepts. We hope you’ll find [...]
Design software developer Autodesk, Vestas, the East Japan Railway and Henkel are among the firms that have made the Top 10 Green Companies list compiled by global mutual fund Portfolio 21.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Portfolio 21 focuses on firms that have demonstrated a commitment to environmental business practices.
The fund currently invests $323 million in 105 [...]
Why is it that some sales reps consistently earn a six-figure annual income while other reps, putting in the same hours, selling the same products and trained by the same sales manager struggle each month financially to make ends meet? The answer to this question is painfully simple; the six-figure sales reps spend more time [...]
Is your mother a business woman? Why not give her a Mother’s Day gift that not only shows her how special she is to you but makes her busy life easier? This selection of Mother’s Day gifts chosen with the busy business woman in mind will make it easy to find just the right gift [...]
In honor of the Academy Awards, we plumbed the depths of film history to come up with our picks for the top entrepreneurs in the movies. These films include both small-business owners and corporate moguls, but each entrepreneur shares one thing in common: They have a business vision that consumes them and they act on [...]
The following are what experts predict to be 2010’s Top 10 professions:
Yes, that’s right. I have compiled a list of why working with the standard mom and pop clients absolutely sucks and why everyone should turn and walk away. This list is only 60% serious, however I know every designer will know what I’m talking about.
Here are the top 10 ways to know if you’re an entrepreneur. (And for those of you that are already entrepreneurs, you can nod your head as we go along…Or disagree with me! Or add your own points!)
As the market for acquiring fledgling Internet companies heats up, it’s worth taking a look at all those acquisitions that didn’t quite work out. For every Internet acquisition that’s successful there seems to be dozens that die on the vine.
So what makes for a really bad Internet acquisition? First, it has to be expensive. No [...]
This is a little off-topic for Content Matters, but every time I recruit for a position, I’m amazed at the responses that I get. So consider this part online venting and part guidance.
Online services like Monster, CareerBuilder, Indeed and others have made job hunting easier. In many ways, though, it’s made the process [...]
A few new restaurants have cropped up in the city; they seem to constantly hit the news in rags such as the Bombay Times (a Times of India publication). I have been to two of the three mentioned below and found them way below standards as far as the food is concerned, considering the attention [...]
To compile our listing of the best states for business, we ranked all 50 states on 30 metrics in six main categories: business costs, economic climate, growth prospects, labor, quality of life and regulatory environment. The data produced a clear No 1. The commonwealth of Virginia takes the crown in our first-ever ranking of Top [...]
Working at Google sounds very cool. I’d be the first to tout Google as a motivating employer: free food, engineers who are enabled to spend 20 percent of their time on their own projects, and a work environment that fosters play and creative thinking. At Google, Genentech and other Fortune magazine top 100 companies, employers [...]
It’s only natural that you’re curious. Who doesn’t want to sneak a peek at the paychecks of America’s wealthiest workers?
In the spirit of disclosure, here’s a look at the median salaries of America’s 50 highest-paying jobs, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The list of America’s top earners contains many expected results (chief executives [...]
I’ve done my fair share of CPA in the past, but I’ve never done it with paid (PPC) traffic. I have a friend who’s making a killing of PPC to simple CPA offers, so I decided to test the waters:
I asked me AM at CPAE (Brandon, who’s awesome), to get me a list of the [...]
The numbers aren’t pretty.
While some two-thirds of small firms make it past the two-year mark, just 44% can hack it for four years, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And by “hack it,” we’re just talking survival rates here: Plenty of those “survivors” are choking down ramen noodles to keep [...]
Here are ten things that you can do to hold more effective meetings.
