Forty years ago on September 2, 1969 an event took place that changed our lives forever … the network which would become the internet was born.
Only a handful of people knew it at the time and I suspect none of them could have envisioned the impact on our society.
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Most of our businesses have not escaped the impact of the recession.   Some have had a severe downturn while others have had a more moderate negative effect.
Regardless the current overwhelming forecast of the economists that study these things is that we are coming to the end of the recession and, although recovery will be [...]

In today’s economy it can pay to be “green.”  As Earth Day approaches I have mined the ACCTivate! customer database and have noticed three trends:  buying “green”, selling “green” and living “green.”
For the most part, these are not companies staffed by people with activist approaches.  They are companies that have recognized the [...]

“The worst economic times - the Great Depression - was actually a rich period of management reinvention…Enterprises outperformed competitors and actually grew by excelling in understanding and satisfying customers’ changing needs.”  
 -          Harvard Business Review: Editor’s Blog, June 2008
 

These days it appears that the entire world is pushing us to do more and more on the internet.  Many small businesses feel as if they are being dragged kicking and screaming to levels of technology that is too expensive, too complicated, and too difficult to manage.  Perhaps. 
In today’s world, however, there are solutions for [...]