Travel agents were once the poster children for that Old Economy horror movie Things The Internet Will Destroy. From a high of 34,000 in the mid-1990s, the ranks of agencies has been sliced by more than half, to roughly 15,000 today. But recent indications that the business is on an upswing point out the need for a more uplifting sequel.
If you ask the Postmaster General about junk mail, he’ll likely correct you. “If you work in the postal service, it’s jobs mail,” he says. That’s why the postal service is pushing an online program to get more, um, jobs mail into your mailboxes.
What began with a $1,000 loan from mom and dad has turned into a booming Midwestern cocktail company
With praying quarterback Tim Tebow and his Denver Broncos eliminated from the NFL playoffs this past weekend, Jared Kleinstein, 24, the founder of the Web site Tebowing.com and its parent company Tebowing LLC, finally has a chance to reflect on what he started.
Imagine if aspiring entrepreneurs — individuals whose main priority is to hire themselves, build revenues and hire others to grow — had access to guaranteed startup capital. Well, under the American Jobs Act, they would.
Louis Lautman founded International Sales University, a sales training and development company that works with top Fortune 500 Companies and hosts public seminars. Here, he talks about how difficult it is to start your own business and how he became successful in an overly competitive market.
Lea Woodward co-founded Kinetiva to help entrepreneurs find their own path in life. Her projects have garnered international media attention. Woodward tells how she went from a 9-to-5 to starting her own business — using her corporate experiences along the way.
The founder of Millennial Branding talks about establishing his position as the personal branding guru for Gen-Y.
As the Senate continues debating financial-industry reform this week, I’d like to re-iterate a point I first made in a Time.com article: lots of businessmen are in favor of a sweeping overhaul. You wouldn’t necessarily know that from reading the headlines, since headlines tend to capture the highest profile lobbying—like what comes from the U.S. Chamber [...]
I recently spoke to the owner of a small company who is buying a new building. He is in an industry—energy-related—that happens to be doing quite well right now. Banks, he said, are tripping over themselves to loan him money. Three different lenders are competing for his business, which means that he’s been able to [...]
