How to Grow Your Business by Focusing on Niche Markets
Ty Morse is the CEO of Songwhale, an interactive technology company focusing on enterprise SMS solutions and Direct Response campaigns, both domestic and international. In business, our goal is to...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why Traditional Pensions Are Still the Best Way to Provide...
This week, America is celebrating National Save for Retirement Week, established by Congress to raise public awareness about the importance of putting money aside for our golden years. For decades,...
View ArticleFinding My Way to My Professional Happy Place
My career has taken many, many (many) turns and detours. Most of my jobs have involved writing of some sort (thank goodness), and I've worked for all types of media: magazines, television, book...
View ArticleFinding My Way to My Professional Happy Place
My career has taken many, many (many) turns and detours. Most of my jobs have involved writing of some sort (thank goodness), and I've worked for all types of media: magazines, television, book...
View ArticleSupporting the Department of Labor's "Best Interest Rule" Is Good for All...
Far too many business leaders today define the success of their company solely by the profit it generates. That's one reason why so many Americans are losing faith in major corporations - they're tired...
View ArticleInnovating Innovation Strategy: Part 1
Innovation calls us to do the impossible: to build for a future we can't yet see. The very notion of innovation is riddled with paradoxes. It asks us to embrace wildly different--even...
View ArticleThe Importance of Hiring Rockstars for Your Small Business
I've been in business for 13 years and started my business when my oldest child was just shy of one. I now have four children (14, 12, 9 and 5) and have managed to build my business, Baby Be Hip, while...
View ArticleIs Your DNA Nothing More than a Credit Score?
Have you ever applied for a credit card? A loan? A big one like a mortgage? If so, you know that an ever more efficient (so they say) rating system, based on a myriad of data, is crunched through ever...
View ArticleWhy the TPP Is an 'Economic NATO'
BEIJING -- On Oct. 5, 12 countries led by the United States announced the completion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, with all parties basically agreeing to the content of this pact. The...
View ArticleThe On-Demand Economy Should Be Challenged By Workers
These are exciting times in the so-called "sharing economy," and not just for Silicon Valley techies and billionaire investors. The moment has finally arrived for the people who actually do the work of...
View ArticleDemocrats Get a Gift from the Fed
Last week, the Democrats received an unexpected gift from the Federal Reserve Board. Lael Brainard, a member of the Fed's Board of Governors, gave a speech in which she questioned the need for the Fed...
View ArticleDemocrats Get a Gift from the Fed
Last week, the Democrats received an unexpected gift from the Federal Reserve Board. Lael Brainard, a member of the Fed's Board of Governors, gave a speech in which she questioned the need for the Fed...
View ArticleHow Can We Scale the Depth of Human Connection?
I'm feeling like a mad scientist this fall. I had been grappling with two big questions this summer and decided to explore them both through one grand experiment. My two big questions were:Why am I...
View ArticleA Letter to all 20-Somethings From Mr. Wonderful
Dear Illustrious Member of Generation Y who believes I should bow down at your feet, Listen up: you want it all, and I'm sorry to say, you're not always prepared to earn it the hard way, like people of...
View ArticleTechnical Tuesday -- Failure at 2,035 on the S&P
Wheeeeee, what fun! As noted in our Weekend Portfolio Review, we are in CASH!!! so we really don't give a crap which way the market goes. Despite having plenty of long positions (short puts in our...
View ArticleCongress Should Rebuild Roads, Not Lengthen Trailers
America's highways can be a dangerous place for motorists. That's why it makes no sense that some in Congress want to cave to trucking industry interests and approve the use of even longer double...
View ArticleFor-Profit College Owner, Who Used Strippers As Lure, Goes On Trial
Alejandro Amor, the former owner-CEO of for-profit FastTrain College, is scheduled to face a jury trial in Miami Wednesday morning. Amor and his co-defendant, former FastTrain admissions staffer...
View ArticleThe 6 Gateways of Sales
Jared Fuller is a Co-Founder of JobHive and is a 3x entrepreneur obsessed with sales, marketing and SaaS. Jared is currently Head of Partnerships at PandaDoc. Sales doesn't have a textbook. You can't...
View ArticleFrom the Ivory Tower Kitchen: Tipping for Change
An online search of the keyword gratuity yields the following origin: "Late 15th century (denoting graciousness or favor): from Old French gratuité or medieval Latin gratuitas 'gift', from Latin gratus...
View ArticleHow to Enhance Your Market Value Through Discomfort
The moment I faced the boxing ring through the gym door I started walking from the parking lot to the pavement of the street, ready to go back home. It was 8:45AM. That morning, I had spontaneously...
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