Your business is more than just products and profits; it’s also about the customers who make it all possible. Keeping them foremost in your mind will make the products and profits a lot easier to come by.
Google+ Hangout: Are Retailers Watching Our Every Move?
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For better or for worse, consumers have gotten used to the idea of being tracked online. Retailers and other businesses have many methods at their disposal to see …
JCPenney Would Be Doing Great If the Stores Were Less Like JCPenney
In a meeting with analysts this week, JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson—the retail superstar famous for making the Apple Store a monster success—proudly showed off a model of the JCPenney store of the future, featuring an assortment …
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Money Talking: How High-Frequency Trading is Impacting Your Investments
High frequency trading now makes up 2/3rds of all trading in the markets, and a lot of experts believe it will be at the center of the next financial crisis. Already, it’s played a role in “flash crashes.” Is it also creating an uneven playing field for the small time investor, and funneling money away from real businesses in favor of …
Was Romney’s Tax Gaffe a Repudiation of Reaganite Conservatism?
Mitt Romney is still dealing with the fallout from that now infamous fundraiser in May in which he tried out his best Thurston Howell imitation in front of a crowd of rich people. He’s been clobbered for his performance by …
What You Should Save By 35, 45, and 55 To Be On Target
Getting started is half the battle when it comes to building retirement security. Setting near term goals are important too. Here’s how to do both.
Uber: Silicon Valley App-Hailing Startup Takes On NYC Taxi Industry
San Francisco startup Uber’s ‘black-car’ mobile app has been a big hit with riders and drivers. But the company is running into a snarl of traffic as it tries to extend its service to New York City taxi-cabs.
Bitter Harvest: U.S. Farmers Blame Billion-Dollar Losses on Immigration Laws
Ralph and Cheryl Broetje rely on roughly 1,000 seasonal workers every year to grow and pack more than 6 million boxes of apples on their farm along the Snake River in eastern Washington. It’s a custom they’ve maintained for …
Beyond the Food Truck: 10 Offbeat Mobile Businesses
It started with the food truck. Hey, you can get Korean tacos on the street corner! Now, a growing number of service businesses have gotten on board, giving an entirely new meaning to the phrase “mobile commerce.” These days, …
Why Aren’t More Families Signing Up for Cheap Internet Service?
A little over a year ago, Comcast introduced Internet Essentials, in which low-income families are eligible for home Internet service for just $9.95 per month. While roughly 2.3 million families in the U.S. qualify for Internet …
Start Your New Client Relationship Right
A client often decides whether to trust you, rely on you — and ultimately give you more business — based on your first few days or weeks of working together. Here are three ways to set up the relationship for success:
Using Facebook to Generate Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Word-of-mouth marketing used to be about one happy customer recommending a business or product to a friend. In the age of social media, a single happy customer can reach thousands of other potential customers, so how can you increase your chances of that happening?