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A federal judge on Tuesday issued an injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Labor’s Overtime Rule set to go into effect December 1. The “Final Rule” would have increased the minimum salary for exempt employees from $23,660 to $47,892 per year.
U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzanti agreed with 21 s Read More

It’s almost that time again.
You know what I’m talking about. It’s the holiday season!
Soon, we’ll all be bombarded with Christmas music and holiday cheer. We’ll make our way to the malls and stores to do our Christmas shopping.
It’s a time of year that is dramatically different from the rest.
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It’s been 13 years now since my last day job and this is exactly the thing I was glad to leave behind. I can’t tell you exactly how much cliche I was exposed to, but it was industrial-sized fully weaponized twaddle and there was plenty of it.
I heard it all from “there’s no I in team” to “it’s not Read More

Akim Vann is the owner and founder of The Bakery on Bergen, a very popular and busy spot that’s known for its delicious and creative cookies, cakes and pastries. The Bakery on Bergen just celebrated its second anniversary and Vann couldn’t be more proud. But as a busy mother of four energetic child Read More

Why are so many more of America’s self-employed immigrants than was the case a generation ago? Dan Wilmoth, an economist at the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration reports that the biggest reason is the rise in immigration.
Between 1994 and 2015, the immigrant fraction of Read More

OK, I know Thanksgiving isn’t until next week, but since these post on Friday I thought I’d get this in a little early.
Besides, Thanksgiving deserves a little more time in the spotlight, what with Christmas carols beginning to play at the mall in early November and all.
In recent years, there se Read More

How companies communicate with their customers is the key factor in determining if they will have a positive buying experience and when they will come back to purchase again.
The single biggest competitive weapon that small businesses have over large competitors in this area is the use of technolo Read More

There are a lot of excellent blog posts and columns on start-up fundraising. Some of them even discuss the errors that founders make in the process of raising money. Having read a lot of them recently I think that they tend to focus on what I would call “forced errors” — mistakes that the founder h Read More

How do you connect with strangers and get them to become customers? Businesses have an array of tools to interact with customers (email, phone, social media, mail), but are they really connecting? Perhaps what businesses need isn’t a new technology but a new story. Read More

The cloud can be an elusive concept for a lot of business owners. You probably know that it’s important. But you might not understand exactly what kind of impact it can have on your business or how you can best utilize it as a business tool.
Since there are many different cloud based tools and fea Read More