"Growth is Good " – We understand your problems. – Are you ready for the solution?
I was talking to a friend of mine who’s been out of W2 employment about two years. Not that he’s sat home for two years, but he’s not been fully employed. He’s done consulting work, networking events and sent out more resumes (thank goodness they are basically electronic these days) than a ream or reams […]
Read More »I recently was talking with a prospective client. The conversation was a general one, to ascertain their needs and the type of business they conduct. They told me they were a manufacturer. “Great”, I said, because it is one of the areas where I can speak from direct work knowledge. I asked where the plant […]
Read More »If you are like all small business, health care costs are killing you; literally. The never ending double digit increases are sucking the lifeblood out of your business. A company of 20 people could be incurring a bill of over $15,000 per month that’s $180,000 per year. How many productive employees could you hire for […]
Read More »I just was a member of a panel for a seminar given in New York City entitled “HOW CFOS ARE DRIVING GROWTH”. The seminar was given by Proformative.com. I spoke about the Democratization of Data in one of my slides and felt this would make a great topic for this month’s newsletter. The concept behind […]
Read More »A business friend of mine, Alan Berkson of the Intelligist Group (http://www.intelligistgroup.com), invited me to the information session of the Westchester County (NY) Community College’s Academy for Entrepreneurial Excellence (http://www.sunywcc.edu/cms/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Academy-2015-Flyer.pdf). In conjunction with the Business Council of Westchester they developed a program Alan calls “A pocket MBA”. For 15 weeks, experts in the field of […]
Read More »This was the title of a series of posts on the CFO centric website Proformative.com. SaaS, which is Software as a Service is the newest tweak to the computer world and Internet. Wikipedia defines SaaS as “…sometimes referred to as “on-demand software,” is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are […]
Read More »Lessons from Irene by Avi Smith-Rappaport www.wecarecomputers.com (with permission) Tropical Storm Irene wreaked havoc on a lot of people’s computer systems as it blew through the Northeast. While we have encountered some catastrophic flood and wind damage to homes and businesses where the computer systems were part of a total write-off – that’s been thankfully […]
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