Survival medicine experts and best-selling authors Joe Alton, M.D. and Amy Alton, A.R.N.P. have developed a new board game to help families learn survival skills and preparedness in an engaging and fun way. The board game, entitled, “Doom and Bloom: Survival!” is being funded through a Kickstarter campaign, which at the time of this writing […]
Lee Featherby spent his early working career pitching and presenting new ideas and products for some of the most well-known multi-national consumer goods organisations in the world. As a trade-off, he has had to sit through innumerable mind numbingly boring presentations by people with an innate need to impress with everything they know, in 20 […]
Throughout national business news, media outlets herald the same harrowing message on almost a daily basis: businesses are failing at an alarming rate, especially small to medium sized businesses or startups. One of the key reasons? Their marketing isn’t effective, either in reaching their prospective customers, or in conveying the value of their product. It’s […]
In an ever-changing global economy, one marketer/entrepreneur figured that the pervasive business failure rate could not solely be linked to slumping sales and varying financial concern. Tim Bishop-Kinlyside, Principal of Business Puzzle Academy, believed there was more to the business failure rate story. . .as well, he could do more to help failing businesses become […]
The plumbing industry, like many parts of the overall housing and real estate industry, operates in pockets. Some pockets of the U.S. are roaring. Other pockets are stagnant or declining. But plumbing industry business growth specialist Gregg Towsley reports that the economy has recovered in regards to the housing industry, though not in all places. […]
“Being selected as the Vice President of The Local Marketers Association is an honor that I take very seriously, not only do I get to help educate business owners on what is working in Authority Marketing and help close the gap between offline and online marketing,” explains Tracy Hanes, “I get to be able to impact a […]
Smoking Cessation Expert Meryl Wexler has launched a new online video training program “Goodbye Tobacco™” designed for smokers who want to stop tobacco use and employers who want to reduce costs of preventable disease. Wexler is the President of Wellness Resolutions, LLC which provides Workplace Wellness education, program guidance/implementation, health treatment and prevention services to […]
In a tight economy, restaurants and supermarket chains continually seek out ways to trim overhead. What most miss in their search, though, is the understanding that one triangle area firm realized long ago and placed at the core of their business model: food doesn’t respond to temperature the same way air does. So, as millions […]
Local businesses have a big problem today. The Internet has lowered the barrier to entry. This means more competition fighting for roughly the same pie. Of course, there are new markets that have been created in some industries which have increased the size of the pie. But, the fact remains that standing out from the […]
On February 19th LinkedIn, the Internet’s premier professional social network launched a new feature. It expanded the number of select users who could publish blog-style content on the LinkedIn platform. Up until that time LinkedIn’s publishing platform was only open to an exclusive network of around 500 “Influencers” worldwide. Authorities like Bill Gates, Richard Branson, […]