Social media isn’t just for promoting your small business — it can also be a great resource for providing customer service. And this week, Twitter added a location sharing feature that can make it easier for some businesses communicating with customers using direct messages. And Twitter wasn’t the only social ... Read More »
Many people are aware that big companies are much more likely than small businesses to offer employer-sponsored health insurance to their employees. The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), an annual effort to query nearly 40,000 establishments, conducted by the Federal Government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows that only ... Read More »
The following excerpt is from the staff of Entrepreneur Media’s book Finance Your Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes Venture capital may be the hot, sexy funding route that helps a few businesses and grabs a lot of headlines every year. But it turns out another type of funding works ... Read More »
LT House is a small brick house with a natural and pure beauty, located in a new residential area in Long Thành District, designed by Ho Chi Minh-based architecture firm Tropical Space. The owner is a newlywed with the desire of having their house. With the limited area, the architects ... Read More »
This Spanish renovation project of a small house located in between two streets in Valencia is so artistic, charming and welcoming that one is tempted to observe and imagine how would be to live in it. Check it out: abundance of fresh green plants, warm wooden structures and cladding, gorgeous ... Read More »
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 – Yahoo YHOO -3.06% confirms that 500 million accounts were hacked back in 2014. From Forbes: Bob Lord, chief information security officer at Yahoo, has stated that the ... Read More »
Liberia’s public schools are failing. After years of civil war followed by the 2014 Ebola epidemic, the Ministry of Education does not have the capacity to run the national school system. Teachers often aren’t paid, and as a result, often don’t show up. Many students don’t either. More than 60% ... Read More »
Freshness, contemporary style and artistic elegance combined in one small urban dwelling in most unusual of places, the heart of Bucharest. This project of Romanian studio rosu-ciocodeica is quite a refreshing sip in the sphere of modern interior design. The designers’ solution for the apartment offers dynamical spatial arrangement enriched ... Read More »
Over the past few years, health and wellness programs have slowly made their wayinto employer provided health care. However, they can be difficult to include in small business health benefits due to their cost. A survey by Welltok, Inc and the National Business Group on Health examines the effect of ... Read More »
If you’ve ever been to Nashua, New Hampshire, you have surely been down Main Street. Main Street is like any other main strip in most small towns in New England. It is full of small shops, boutiques, restaurants, and monuments — with those being the most important. Due to the ... Read More »
Loan approval rates at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) declined slightly for the first time in six months in July 2016, according to the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index™, the monthly analysis of more than 1,000 small business loan applications on Biz2Credit.com. Last month, big banks granted 23.1%, still ... Read More »
Discover brilliant decorating and storage ideas for even the tiniest spaces. 1 Of 20 SAY WHAT YOU MEAN The tub and sink fittings in the guest bath of designers Kevin Roberts and Timothy Haynes’s homeare by Barber Wilsons & Co., and the paint-on-mirror artwork is by Rashid Johnson. Simon Upton ... Read More »
