Finding and choosing the right name for your new product can be a daunting task. You don’t want it to be something forgettable, but on the other hand, you also don’t want it to be something so bizarre that people will shy away from it simply because of its name.

You might be looking at the title of this piece and raising a curious eyebrow. There’s only one way to hold a meeting after all, right? Get all participants in the room, say what you came to say, maybe open it up for a little Q&A and call it done.

There are two pieces of technology currently converging that will allow outsourcing to take on new shapes and forms in the decades ahead. We’re already seeing it in practice in its primitive form. Those trends will continue as the technology continues to advance and improve.

You want to expand and grow your business. Who wouldn’t? Sadly, there’s something standing in your way, and that is the banks. Post-recession, they’ve been reluctant to get back into the game, which is strange, since lending to business wasn’t what caused the recession to begin with.

You know you’ve got a fantastic place to work, and your employees agree. The problem? It’s a little in the middle of nowhere-ish, and nobody really knows where you are. But don’t worry, there are few different, absolutely fantastic ways to fix that, technologically driven, of course, and below, I’ll introduce you to them.

You are obviously quite familiar with .com, .net, .org, and the others. These were the extensions that the internet was founded on. These were the first generation top level domains. Back in the early days of the internet, before big companies decided for certain that this whole web-thing wasn’t just a fad and was probably here to stay, “cyber-squatters” made out like bandits by buying domains that big corporations would ultimately want (“coke.

Who doesn’t love radio. Yes, it’s a little retro, a little old school, particularly nowadays, given the number of radio-like options available on the internet, and in particular, Sirius Radio. Yet local radio’s numbers have held up remarkably well.

As an owner, you like to think you’re providing a safe environment for your employees to operate in and work from, but are you really doing everything you should be? Here’s a checklist of things you should use to ensure that your working environment is as safe as you can make it, and don’t worry, none of the items on this list are going to cost you an arm and a leg.

First things first. Because it may have been a while since those Six Sigma classes, let’s take it from the top. If you gather together in one place a repeated collection of actions and variable in series, you have a process. If you gather together a collection of processes, you have a system.

Some departments are easy to outsource. Accounting is accounting no matter where you go. There are a few particulars with how your pay bands are set up and such, but from a practical standpoint, the basic functionality is largely the same from one company to the next.