Expanding on yesterday's blog on the diminishing ROI for business users of Facebook, Harvard Business Online blogger John Sviokla checks in with a positive look at its main competitor for business users, LinkedIn. His take: LinkedIn delivers tremendous reach to business professionals for a relatively small investment....
Do you find Facebook a helpful tool for maintaining and growing business contacts, or are you contemplating what Harvard Online editor Paul Michelman is about to do: "Defriend" all his business contacts. As a business tool, says Michelman, Facebook is not working, and it's...
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The current chaos in financial markets has changed how merchant cash advances should be evaluated. The use of credit card factoring and credit card processing to obtain working capital financing has recently become a more viable commercial funding strategy. Although this approach for securing business cash advances has been available,...
Learn how HP can solve you document management headaches easily and inexpensively. HP has many new products for all your electronic work flow needs that will save you time and money. Join this live one hour TechRepublic Webcast, featuring live Q&A with moderator James Hilliard and guest...
Outsourcing to China has been the rage for more than 20 years, but how about the flip side? China is quietly outsourcing to -- and seeking investments in -- the United States. There is clear evidence of this going on, despite the political controversy in 2005 when...
There was a time when a simple check-the-box approach to online sales and service was enough to satisfy a consumer-driven Internet audience -- but those days are over. With online revenues now over $500 million per year in North America alone, companies of all sizes are increasingly turning their attention...
Hey, so this is cool. Lifehacker just wrote about a free download called HP Smart Web Printing that lets you combine multiple Web items onto one page. It saves you from having to print out tons of extraneous information and wasting paper. It's Windows-only, but it...
The Find: Obesity costs U.S. companies up to $45 billion annually, according to the latest research, but expensive corporate wellness programs don't necessarily mitigate the costs. The Source: New research from The Conference Board and ING Wholesale. The Takeaway: Analysts...
Everyone could use less paper in their lives. It's good for the environment, easier on your filing system, and just plain cheaper. Here are three ways you can cut down on the amount of printing you do and paper you consume: Get a duplexing printer The oldest...
The Idea in Brief Executives and social activists working together? It's true: after decades of mutual distrust, corporations and nongovernmental organizations NGOs are collaborating to combat poverty around the world. Their weapon? Innovative local businesses such as...
With all the focus on items like dividend yields, PE ratios and other shorthand ways of assessing the value of company, what's happening to a company's working capital position is sometimes forgotten. But working capital is often where the stresses and strains on a company show up first. So it's...
Jonathan Avganim is CEO of Office Supply Max, a company that sells over 50,000 types of supplies and imaging products to businesses nationwide. Avganim uses a strategy to beat his competition which narrows his profit margin in the short run but has proven to drastically increase his customer base and...
In 1995 Helen Driscoll founded the company that became Invitesite, a fine paper company that uses 19th century printing presses. Driscoll discusses how she found innovation in an old-fashioned craft and the unique ways she serves her niche clientele.
Grant Thornton LLP is one of America's largest accounting firms. This case study explains how the company simplified its IT asset tracking process to minimize loss rates during business expansion. Learn how Grant Thornton used Computrace to standardize its IT asset management across a nation-wide network of...
Companies in many industries are struggling to determine how best to deal with the power that social computing gives their customers as an open forum to share how they feel about products with millions of fellow consumers. This newfound power in the hands of customers is creating an openness of...
Every company needs to change its tactics during an economic slowdown. Here’s how the smart ones survive. How Banks Pulled Through the 2001 Recession Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York Financial institutions came...
JupiterMedia's Intranet Journal just announced its readers' choices for product of the year in five categories surrounding intra-company communication and workflow. Google prevailed in two categories, being chosen as both the year's best Semantic Tool and the best Enterprise Search Tool. Blogger beat out...
As your healthcare organization makes the transition to digital imaging and recordkeeping, you face a whole new set of technological challenges. But if you can transform the overwhelming amount of data into usable information, you can access records faster and more reliably - and benefit from operational efficiencies and better...
When thinking about starting an online business, the first thing you need to consider is what type of products you will offer through your online store. Your options are many because online you can offer just about anything you want: physical products, informational products, digital products, wholesale retail products, and...
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