How to Start a Blog for a Small Business

There are five main steps on how to start a blog for a small business. The first step is to choose a domain name for the blog. This means that the company will need to figure out those keywords that have something to do with target audience that they are going to need. This could be a word that the company has made up that they could establish as their own. The most important thing in creating a domain name for the blog is to try not to use the first or last names of the owners of the company.

Good Googleplex: The Currency of Perks

If you work for Google, then you are among the lucky thousands who have experienced what’s been lauded as the best working environment on the entire planet.  For one thing, Google pays its employees well, but money is not the only thing that makes a job worth having.  In fact, most of the laid back, healthy, and happy Google employees, when asked what makes Google such great company to work for, will cite the many corporate perks before any mention of monetary compensation.  Keeping valuable and creative employees satisfied involves a kind of currency trading that goes miles beyond the cold, hard dollar, and Google is a master of trade when it comes to the…

Investment Regret

Have you ever sunk a lump of hard earned cash into one or more stocks hoping to rake in profits, then waited out the months wondering if you actually might have made a mistake?  Or worse, did you later compare several stocks you were choosing between, only to discover that the one you chose not to invest in is worth a lot more than what you bought?  That’s called investor’s angst, or investment regret.  It can come upon you at any time, in the late hours of the night while you’re lying awake wishing you’d made another choice, or during a morning commute on the subway as you check the stock markets on your iPhone.

What is Charles Ergen Doing?

So far in 2011, the billionaire chairman and founder of Dish Network and EchoStar has made $2.3 billion in acquisitions of wireless and satellite companies, among other internationally branded corporate entities. Charles Ergen has already bought satellite companies DBSD North America and Hughes Communications, and is currently looking to purchase a third satellite company, and direct tv service competitor, TerreStar. Ergen has also acquired video services and store brands Move Networks and Blockbuster, with the latter having the asset of thousands of national store locations and international branding. The one thing all of these new acquisitions have in common is content delivery, raising speculation that Mr. Ergen is preparing to establish a hold on the…