Chris Motola: Merchant Maverick’s own little piece of Brooklyn. When he’s not writing about, erm, extremely dubious financial products, he’s playing table games, hiking, or geeking-out, Tarantino-style. (What is a Tarantino-style nerd? Do they perform Kill Bill cosplay? Or meet for table reads of Jackie Brown? Chris isn’t telling.) Let’s find out more about how […]
Technology is evolving at breakneck speed. Consider this: when I was born in 1982, personal computers weren’t a thing (though we did have rotary phones for hours of dialing fun). I personally witnessed the genesis and extinction of the VCR, CDs, CD-ROM, floppy disks, flip phones, and AOL. That’s a lot of technology to rise […]
Ah, work productivity. The subject of countless blogs, bestsellers, motivational speeches, and kitten-based posters. Everything that can be said about productivity has already been said, a million different ways, using an infinite number of cliches and axioms. There is nothing new under the sun, right? The sad thing is, you can’t even talk about work […]
For most people, a trip to the spa or salon is a relaxing event, a welcome change from the grind of day to day life. They can’t see beyond the darting scissors and the foil; they don’t know what lurks behind the fleecy robes and the fragrant herbal teas. They have literally no idea how […]
Which is truer? The best things in life are free. or… There’s no such thing as a free lunch. As usual, in this battle of idiomatic chestnuts, the answer does not present itself in a neatly tied, black-and-white package, but in a drab array of flannel grays. Both are true. Neither are true. The fact […]
If you own a restaurant, chances are good that you know how to run a business, understand food, and are marketing towards a specific and targeted niche. However, if watching the Food Network has taught me anything (and I think it has!), chances are also good that you have no idea what you’re doing. For […]
Having a strong online presence is essential these days, whether you’re trying to run a business, promote your brand, or simply provide information to the community. Unfortunately, most people lack the skill to develop a website themselves and don’t want to drop thousands of dollars on a professional web designer. For many small business owners […]
Why is Team Engagement Important? Few things strike more fear into the heart of a business owner or executive than the prospect of implementing a new software system. After all, potential disasters lurk around every corner: security issues, system crashes, client pushback, employee resistance, and numerous other logistical nightmares. Pulling the trigger on a brand […]
Agile is a specific project management methodology, used most often by engineers and software developers. Unlike more traditional project management techniques, which focus on achieving identifiable milestones using complex scheduling tools like Gantt charts, Agile management is an iterative, incremental process. The Agile methodology is ideally suited to client-initiated projects that involve multiple, concrete deliverables. […]
There’s no doubt that project management software is a useful commodity. What other tool can you use to simultaneously track the progress of ongoing tasks, monitor employee workload, create complex schedules, budget for projects, and safely store documents and images? Even the fanciest project management program, however, is primarily useful because it performs one, big, […]
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