Do you need to quickly send your friend a little money but aren’t sure how you are going to do it? If your friends or family need money fast and you aren’t close by a bank it can be hard to decide how to get the money to them in a way that is both safe and easy, as well as cheap.

Recently, Big Blue announced a new tool it’s rolling out; a data analysis tool aimed directly at executives who don’t want to be bothered with the steep learning curves of analytic tools currently on offer by the likes of Oracle and SAP. The new tool is called Watson, and will be available for use on both desktops and mobile devices.

So, you’ve started out in business and things are going pretty well. You’re building your reputation, and even starting to make a little money. How can you go about getting that all important growth that will carry you through to the next level?

Make A Plan

When I was a young business owner, my tough east end of London Cockney mentor drove into my head this mantra; Proper Planning Prevents **** Poor Performance.

If you are looking to expand a current business or start up a new enterprise the beginning of a new year is the perfect time to reevaluate your current business strategy and consider moving into exciting new areas. Review the following business possibilities to see where your interests and strengths intersect with these new business trends for 2015.

Make Mine Mobile

With the continuous evolution of tablets, cell phones and other mobile devices 2015 will be a year when individuals and businesses can generate success developing mobile apps.

Social Media contests can do amazing things for your brand and for your company, but only if you get your campaign off to a strong start, and then do something with the data you get from your customers and fans. Below you’ll find an outline of the steps you need to be taking in order to launch a highly successful social media contest, but first, a word of warning.

There is a slow death happening in America; courtesy towards our fellow citizens is going by the wayside. If you asked someone what they thought about this, they would most likely tell you it doesn’t matter. Well, my friend, they’re wrong – courtesy matters very much to us as human beings.

One of the best ways to increase the number of on-target leads generated by your current marketing tools is to pay close attention to what is known as lead scoring. Lead scoring is a calculated value designed to rank the customers who are most likely to purchase additional goods and services from the company.

Privacy is becoming such an important issue as it relates to the internet that even Facebook, the company that was recently called out for secretly conducting experiments on its user base, has gotten into the game. Their offering is called Privacy Checkup and it will be rolled out soon.

As the Summer months have just ended, many businesses will have experienced a slight dip in sales. If this is the case, you might be searching for some new ways to bring in revenue for the upcoming months. You might be reaching out to old clients and trying to up-sell products, capture new leads etc.

Just having to ask this question seems wrong. The whole idea of crowdfunding was to enable small businesses and people to gather seed money so they could pursue their dream, large or small, when the more traditional sources of acquiring capital were unavailable.