You want to expand and grow your business. Who wouldn’t? Sadly, there’s something standing in your way, and that is the banks. Post-recession, they’ve been reluctant to get back into the game, which is strange, since lending to business wasn’t what caused the recession to begin with.

You know you’ve got a fantastic place to work, and your employees agree. The problem? It’s a little in the middle of nowhere-ish, and nobody really knows where you are. But don’t worry, there are few different, absolutely fantastic ways to fix that, technologically driven, of course, and below, I’ll introduce you to them.

You are obviously quite familiar with .com, .net, .org, and the others. These were the extensions that the internet was founded on. These were the first generation top level domains. Back in the early days of the internet, before big companies decided for certain that this whole web-thing wasn’t just a fad and was probably here to stay, “cyber-squatters” made out like bandits by buying domains that big corporations would ultimately want (“coke.

Who doesn’t love radio. Yes, it’s a little retro, a little old school, particularly nowadays, given the number of radio-like options available on the internet, and in particular, Sirius Radio. Yet local radio’s numbers have held up remarkably well.

As an owner, you like to think you’re providing a safe environment for your employees to operate in and work from, but are you really doing everything you should be? Here’s a checklist of things you should use to ensure that your working environment is as safe as you can make it, and don’t worry, none of the items on this list are going to cost you an arm and a leg.

First things first. Because it may have been a while since those Six Sigma classes, let’s take it from the top. If you gather together in one place a repeated collection of actions and variable in series, you have a process. If you gather together a collection of processes, you have a system.

Some departments are easy to outsource. Accounting is accounting no matter where you go. There are a few particulars with how your pay bands are set up and such, but from a practical standpoint, the basic functionality is largely the same from one company to the next.

It’s the biggest meeting of your life, and you don’t want to admit it, but you’re scared half to death. You cannot blow this. If you ace this meeting, your career will soar. If you freeze up, it won’t exactly kill your career, but your wings will be clipped, for sure.

Cryptolocker cost thousands of people millions of dollars before antivirus software finally began to eliminate the number of attacks. Weeks after Cryptolocker began to lose a grip on the digital threat world, Cryptowall hit the streets.

If you didn’t get to meet Cryptolocker proper, consider yourself lucky; the only thing you could do was completely delete the encrypted files on your computer or pay an outlandish fee of $300 to have the host hackers unlock them for you.

Most of us work in offices these days. That’s nice in the sense that the coffee maker is close at hand and someone usually brings doughnuts. Plus the air conditioning. It’s not possible to sing enough praises about the wonders of air conditioning.