Online Reviews and Your Business
Owning a small business is full of rewards and challenges. One of the greatest rewards is having repeat business that values and appreciates what you do and shares it with the people around them. When good word spreads about your small business, then you will probably see more and more business coming to you. The challenge arises when the word being spread about your small business is not completely positive. What do you do at that point?
Looking Good for Small Business
Small business is on the rise, according to recent economic indicators. There is a lot to be excited about on the business front if you happen to be one of the thousands of American corporate refugees fleeing the collapsing economy in search of greener pastures, often in their own backyards. Starting a new business in trying financial times can be a little crazy, is certainly fraught with its share of dangers, but anyone who can get something off the ground in this economy and hang in there until things improve can weather any storm in more ordinary times.
Is it Time for Steve Ballmer to Go?
Famous hedge fund manager and Greenlight Capital, Inc. President David Einhorn this week sounded the rallying cry for the ouster of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, under whose watch Microsoft has fallen to competitors across an eyebrow raising span of categories. As the new big kids on the block, Apple (which admittedly isn’t “new” but is newly big) and Google, launch innovative cloud technologies combined with new mobile operating systems and tablets, the PC market continues to experience a downward spiral in sales. Demand for Microsoft’s flagship operating system, Windows, continues to go downhill as consumers increasingly find iOS, Android, Mac OS X (and soon, Google’s Chrome OS) to be more fun. Another factor contributing to this could be a recent upsurge in the interest of common users in alternative and open source operating systems such a Linux, with its host of customized distributions and low cost.
Millennials: Work It Out
The largest group making up the American workforce today are the Millennials. These people are those born between 1980 and 1995 and they are on a mission to find work and stick with it. Thanks to have been giving pretty much everything that they have wanted in life, this group has an all about me mentality, but don’t let that make you think they cannot handle working. This crew is ready to work. The technology and new gadgets of today are, in fact, extensions of their body. They take hard work seriously because the harder they work, the more they can play. These group of workers are able to multi-task with ease and are incredibly resourceful and eager to make changes for the better.
