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LinkedIn the social media platform for business professionals. Are you using LinkedIn to your advantage? Be sure to complete your profile to the 100% status. The profile represents an online resume where you share your education, expertise, recommendations and products or services that you have t... Read More

Communication is paramount to a good freelancing and outsourcing experience. These are my mistakes. I'm sharing them in hopes that you don't make the same ones as I did. Read More

Justin McCullough points out a common flaw in sales tactics and gives reasons as to why it doesn't work. Read More

By now, most of us have figured out that business is changing to be a more collaborative, co-creative process that challenges us to be more authentic and creative. Many of us are being called to do work that is our soul's calling. This is requiring different skills than before. Read More

Sumac Research explores the benefits of using Linux for non-profits who rely on old, donated computers with very little processing power. Read More

Our team is looking forward to attending and exhibiting at Internet Retailer’s first Mobile Commerce Forum in Chicago next week. If you’ll be in attendance, be sure to stop by booth 205 and say hello! Lunch Pail contributors Dave Lawson and Amy Chubbuck will be there. Plus, we’ll once again have so Read More

A few days ago I wrote a post, Should We Promote Our Best Sales People To Managers? It stirred some interesting debate, but one of the arguments that struck me centered around, “How do we retain our best people?” Moving a sales person into a management role in order to retain them is not necessar Read More

Businesses are looking for ways to grow and expand. Traditionally they sought loans to help them build or buy the technology, capabilities or resources they needed. With the scarcity of loans, build or buy may no longer be a viable option. Savvy business owners are now learning to partner.

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October is Employee Ownership Month. In celebration we share 5 videos of our award-winning small businesses that are ESOPs revealing how these programs help them in both good and bad times. Read More

The idea of “adding value” popped into my head. At first glance, adding value certainly sounds like a good thing—not so much the “adding” part as the “value” part of the concept. I subscribe to the theory that reducing customer effort—making it quick and easy for me to do business with you—builds l Read More