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We will not recover until the banks start lending to the smaller businesses. It is small business that represents 95% of the economy. Read More

Last week's announcement was terse and to-the-point. Advanta's Board of Directors, expecting a continuation of the recession as well as the further erosion of the company's capital, approved a plan to “dramatically limit the Company's credit loss exposure and maximize its capital and its liquidity measures.” Read More

Chief Financial Officers are increasingly being looked upon as Chief Performance Officers. They have to come up with key indicators to measure the business's performance. "Traditionally, information technology simply involved gathering data .... Read More

It's a brief comparison of two different uses of Twitter and their respective goals and audiences. Read More

I admit I am far too guilty of trying to rationalize what my eyes are seeing as the market seems to defy gravity and continues to move higher. I usually laugh when I see some respected pundit or the CNBC zoo-crew provide a reason for market movement (almost always after the fact) as the answer is usually never as complicated as they make it out to Read More

The world of advertising is a wide open landscape. There is almost no limit to the creativity, depth and breadth your advertising mix can take - Not to mention no limit to the amount of money you can spend. In such an environment a few set of rules can help give you a proper framework by which to operate. I consider these to be nonnegotiable if yo Read More

It used to be that only big companies needed to worry about their brand. Small- and medium-sized businesses were off the hook and free to humbly market their companies offline to folks within a certain storefront radius. But then the Internet happened. And social media. And it changed everything. Read More

Do your customers know you appreciate their business? Here are 3 low tech, low cost and easy to implement ways to make sure they do. Read More

On the 3rd of March, I published this post “Need Sales Training, Let's Sit Down and Talk About it” It was a rough transcript of a phone call I took from an Irish Sales Director. He was inquiring about sales training for his sales team and insisting that I send him a proposal and price - he did not want to meet up. I refused as I didn't feel tha Read More

Business leaders' crowning moments aren't limited to their financial accomplishments. Instead, many have to do with their bloopers, missteps, and comedic skills. Here are the 15 funniest business moments ever, caught on camera for your viewing pleasure: Read More