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• Performance Reviews Fall Out of Favor

  I think I learned about workplace reviews the hard way. Or maybe the wrong way. I never liked them. I never did them very well. I’m glad to see Time to Review Workplace Reviews on one of the New York Times blogs. During my consulting days, when one of my favorite corporate clients, a high-level ma

• How to Carefully Select a Franchise To Buy: A Review

  Are you a rule follower or a rule maker?  This is one of the questions Joel Libava, known as The Franchise King, and author of How to Carefully Select a Franchise to Buy, asks in one of his recent videos.  The best franchise owners are often rule followers; they prefer the systems and organization

• 4 Ways To Avoid Summer SMB Burnout

  The summers are hard for a lot of people. Business slows down and the calls of the beach and BBQs make it mentally difficult to stay inside and focus on growing our businesses. And even though you love your business and providing value to your customers, you start to feel a little burnt out and y

• Send Email and Text Messages by Voice: Review of Voice on the Go

  Tweet by phone.  Now that caught my interest. Voice on the Go is a new service that allows you to record a message and it accurately transcribes it into an email, a text message (SMS), or a Facebook or Twitter update. I purchased the $5.99 monthly option for this review and found it to be a fast an

• Small Business Promotion

  We believe in in supporting small businesses! Not to mention that we're a small one ourselves. Statistically though 63% of consumers and small business owners turn to the internet first for information about local companies and 82% use search engines to do so, only 44% of small businesses have a web