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Preparing Your Company Today to Hire for Tomorrow
by By Charlie Saffro on
With a clearly defined understanding of long- and short-term goals, and a firm grasp of what your company is looking for in an ideal candidate, you will be in a position to recruit and retain top talent. Maintaining a consistent and proactive hiring ... Read full article
$2.4M advanced manufacturing school opens in Burnsville
by Mike Cronin (Photo: Beth Morris/Mayland Community College/Special to the Citizen-Times) on
Students will learn engineering skills that will help address regional and national shortages... Read full article
How Lending Club Is Shaping the Future of Small-Business Loans
by Robb Mandelbaum (IMAGE: Victor Prado) on
In just eight years, Lending Club has figured out how to provide a faster small-business loan--and paved the way for a growing group of financial disrupters.... Read full article
How to Add a Secondary Axis to an Excel Chart
by Rachel Sprung on
Have you ever wanted to create a single chart for two different (yet related) pieces of data? Maybe you wanted to see the raw number of leads you're generating from each channel and what the conversion rate of the channel is. Having those two sets of... Read full article
SCORE: Brand your business for success
by By Matt Thomson on
Often when someone talks about branding, you think about our Arizona cowboys rounding up cattle to mark them for the Rancher. Actually, branding for a business works much the same way. Branding identifies the business and helps set it apart from the ... Read full article
The Ultimate Guide to Retailers That Offer Free In-Store Pickup
by Kyle James on
Shopping online is convenient, but between shipping costs and shipping times, it isn't always ideal. In-store pickup solves both problems: you order it at home, avoid shipping costs, and get your item in minutes without looking through the store. ... Read full article
Trader Joe's named best grocery store in US; Kroger to beat Whole Foods on organic, natural: Retail
by Anna Marum (Photo Credit: The Associated Press) on
Trader Joe's, home of the infamous two-buck chuck (which costs closer to $3 now), took top honors in a recent survey of 100 national and regional grocery store chains... Read full article
The 6 Best Industries You've Never Heard of
by Graham Winfrey on
Beef jerky production. Artificial turf installation. Laser tag hosting. You may not have known they even existed, but they're all promising niche sectors for starting a business.... Read full article
25 Tools to Make Your Company Look Bigger Than it Is
by Christina Desmarais on
Appearance is everything with consumers, who may trust large companies more than smaller ones. These platforms, websites, and apps can help.... Read full article
Three truckers set to drive M&A activity into high gear
by Lou Whiteman (Photo Credit: C H Robinson) on
Freight transport providers enjoyed a solid 2014, and companies for the most part have told investors to expect more of the same in the quarters to come. Still, the gains may not come as easily as they did in the early years after the Great Recession... Read full article