'News' Category
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President Obama’s Manufacturing Plan
Posted by Tim Parker on February 23, 2012The United States doesn’t manufacture much anymore. We’ve all read in history about people like Henry Ford and his assembly line and only a few decades ago we remember that sprawling facilities that kept entire towns employed but those days are quickly fading. Today, only 10 percent of all jobs in the United States are [...]
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Small Business Owners Excited about 2012
Posted by Tim Parker on January 26, 2012We’ve all heard that in business there’s no room for emotions but one important economic survey aims to capture a nationwide snapshot of how small business owners feel about the economy. Each month the Small Business Authority Market Sentiment Survey surveys 1,000 small business owners asking them questions gauging their sense of economic optimism going [...]
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When A Company Should (And Should Not) Invest In Technology
Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on September 5, 2011Investing in technology for your small business may seem like a good idea. Many small business owners have laptops, smart phones, color laser all-in-one printers, digital cameras, or any number of other hardware devices. Their business may also have specialized software and hardware to control inventory in their warehouse, or to share data among their [...]
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How Increasing Income Tax On Companies Loses Jobs
Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on August 29, 2011Last week I wrote about how increasing the income tax over $200,000 might have the effect of stimulating job growth. This is all well and good in an environment where the individual or company has no other option but to pay the tax or defer the income. If they can move to where taxes are [...]
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Can Increasing Income Tax Over $200,000 Actually Create Jobs?
Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on August 22, 2011There has been a lot of talk about increasing taxes for individuals and companies earning over $200,000 or $250,000 or whatever the number is. For this article we will say that $200,000 is our dividing line. Why would it be fair to increase taxes at this income level? 1. We would just be restoring pre-2000 [...]
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Akamai Servers Seriously Messed Up Tonight
Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on August 9, 2011I am reporting what I know tonight. Akamai servers for Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Bing, Best Buy, Hyatt, Hilton, and many other sites have been seriously compromised and content on these sites mainly appears “parked”. A parked web site only contains mainly advertisements collected from Google Adwords or other similar pay-per-click (PPC) advertisements. At this time, [...]
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Blogging About The News
Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on July 7, 2011My blog is mainly about small business information and I mainly write about starting and building a small business. These are “how to” articles, such as “How To Market Without A Budget”. But lately I have started to mix in articles analyzing popular news stories with a business twist and have gotten some very good [...]
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Is It The Right Time To Balance The Federal Budget?
Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on June 29, 2011While you might think I am in favor of balancing the Federal U.S. Budget, and I am, I really do not think this is the best time to do it. Why? Here are my top five reasons why we should not have a balanced budget right now: Unemployment is high Cutting the federal budget will [...]
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Rod Blagojevich Gets Conviction He Deserves
Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on June 27, 2011Goodbye Mr. Blagojevich, former governor of Illinois. He was convicted today of 17 of the 20 counts of corruption he was tried on. This was his second trial on these charges after the first trial ended in a hung jury. This time the jury took 10 days of deliberation to arrive at the verdict, leading [...]
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Clarence Clemons Of The E Street Band Dead Of Stroke At Age 69
Posted by Brian E. Satterlee on June 19, 2011Although not the typical small business story, I wanted to report to you all that Clarence Clemons died Saturday night at 7pm from a stroke suffered on June 12. Clarence was the saxophone player for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. I have loved music for many, many years and had a love/hate relationship with Bruce [...]