And This Week’s Award For Most Offensive App Goes To…
Incentive based marketing and sales strategies are fairly old hat in the world of business. It’s pretty straightforward, customers and clients like walking away feeling like they both got something. Most strategists think of incentive as a form of motivation, but one app is re-thinking that paradigm. What I…
How To Be a Successful Startup Founder
Maybe you’re fresh-faced out of college, and your bright-eyed hopes have been dimmed by news reports of a bad job market and by watching your friends struggle to pay rent. You have a degree – maybe even in business, though perhaps not – but you don’t know what to do with it. So you decide to start a company…
Smooth 8: Detox, Energize, And Lose Weight
My first ever writing job was working for a company that sells vitamins, updating their customers on the latest in natural health research. That little bio-blurb wasn’t for bragging purposes but to show you that I’ve got a little background in this natural health stuff. That’s important because today’s …
Remembering Internet Activist Aaron Swartz (And Asking Why His Crime Was So Controversial)
I don’t usually write in memoriam-style articles, but the recent suicide of early Reddit employee Aaron Swartz has got the Internet buzzing and me wondering what is up with the severe computer crime laws in the U.S. In Aaron’s case, the crime was controversial and the results tragic. Here’s his story and…
CodeGuard Makes Backup Quick And Efficient
It’s critical that a company has available clean versions of its website at various stages. The number of things that can affect a website negatively are many and it could cost lost time and capital. Development disasters, server crashes, or hackers could each potentially be factors in revenue loss, site downtime, and a damage in reputation. It’s not always practical for a startup or a major company to be concerned about every...