Open Forum reports that there is an 11% increase in the number of small businesses closing and a 17% decline in the number of small businesses opening. Get Busy Median reports 69% of small businesses survive at least two years, 44% of new firms survive four years, and 31% survive at least seven years. The … Continue reading Is It Time to Be an Entrepreneur?
Is Your Business Protected?
Have you ever said, "I wish that someone would have said something earlier—we could have saved a lot of money"? Do you know if your employees are stealing from you, or if a manager is sexually harassing one of his/her subordinates, or if you have an employee who is about to “go postal” at your … Continue reading Is Your Business Protected?
Clear & Compelling Video Thumbnails Can Boost SEO Rankings
It hasn’t been easy for online merchants to maintain SEO rankings on Google in recent months, thanks to Google’s ongoing updates. No doubt you’re looking for any edge you can get in order to get highly ranked links. Google has opened the door to one method for improving search rankings: a higher profile for videos. … Continue reading Clear & Compelling Video Thumbnails Can Boost SEO Rankings
No Nonprofit Should Be Left Behind
Now that the holiday season is over and retailers in general are reporting slightly higher sales than last year, the business community is letting out a shared sigh of relief, because it could have easily gone the other way, continuing the recession we have all been dealing with over the last three years—[a]nd, as USA … Continue reading No Nonprofit Should Be Left Behind
Put up or Shut up
"It's time for us to pull together and stop the bickering and finger-pointing and just help people in need," says Marc Joseph, President and CEO of DollarDays, a subsidiary of America's Suppliers, Inc. (AASL.PK), a premier Internet-based product wholesaler to small businesses and local distributors. As part of the company's ongoing corporate philanthropy program, this … Continue reading Put up or Shut up
DollarDays Chooses Treepodia’s E?commerce Video Tool
Treepodia, the leading provider of automated video solutions for online retailers, announced today that DollarDays, a leading online wholesaler that helps small businesses compete against chains in their area, has seen a major increase in conversions using Treepodia’s e-commerce video platform. DollarDays has also greatly improved the SEO of its product pages using Treepodia’s Dynamic … Continue reading DollarDays Chooses Treepodia’s E?commerce Video Tool
I Don’t Want to Be Homeless
What has America gotten itself into? Just about every state and every city is cutting back funding to services needed by those who need it most. The Chicago Reporter published the headline this week, “Temperatures dropping. Will the state restore funding for homeless shelters?” It goes on to report that the 2012 budget was cut … Continue reading I Don’t Want to Be Homeless
The Best Therapist You Ever Met
October is "Adopt-a-Pet-Shelter Month," and, as far as I am concerned, we should be celebrating this every month of the year. According to the Humane Society, animal shelters care for up to eight million dogs and cats every year and euthanize around four million animals. Today, there are more than 135 million dogs and cats … Continue reading The Best Therapist You Ever Met
Build It & They Will Learn
Last week the White House released their American Jobs Act proposal. Two ideas that caught my eye [were] preventing up to 280,000 teacher layoffs and modernizing at least 35,000 public schools by supporting new science labs, Internet-ready classrooms, and renovations at schools across the country in [both] rural and urban areas. No matter what your … Continue reading Build It & They Will Learn
DollarDays Cuts Through the Site Search Thicket with “Natural Language” Technology
The e-commerce site operated by wholesaler and closeout company DollarDays presents a daunting site search challenge. DollarDays sells some 140,000 products spread across 5,000 departments, and the smaller business owners who typically purchase there [...] often had to navigate through a thicket of unwanted item[s] before finally finding the desired product[s]. But the e-commerce company says … Continue reading DollarDays Cuts Through the Site Search Thicket with “Natural Language” Technology