The number of people seeking unemployment benefits dropped last week to the lowest level since early April, a sign the job market may be healing after a recent slump. The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications fell 24,000 to a seasonally adjusted 398,000. That’s the first time applications have fallen below 400,000 in 16 [...]

I just finished two strategic planning sessions with two clients.  Both are very good at execution which got me thinking, again, about why execution is so hard. And sometimes,executing excellently is a major customer and competitive advantage! You know the adage; I’d rather have a B plan with A execution than an A plan with B execution. [...]

How do you make money by giving something away? Just ask the subject of today’s interview, Costin Tuculescu. Costin, a software engineer by education, is a serial entrepreneur whose passion lies in creating new technologies, finding solutions to technology problems, and producing new, exciting products and services. His latest venture is a full-featured web conferencing [...]

Measurability is one of the key factors that draw business owners to online marketing. While it’s difficult to tell how many people will see a television ad or billboard, it’s easy to find out how many people have viewed or, more importantly, clicked on, a Web ad. When a Web ad takes the form of [...]

Lots of people today are turning to the Internet in order to try to earn some extra money in order to cover their bills. One of the biggest issues with running a business online is that many people think that it is a cinch. The reality is that for the most part, it involves hard [...]