By understanding the expected value concept, and making realistic assessments of your odds of success, you can make better decisions about how to allocate limited resources.
Even if you think you have been ruthless about hunting down “leaks” in your budget during the downturn, you may be surprised to find that your company still has some.
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When potential customers decided to purchase products from lower-cost sources, one regional business decided to go luxury instead...with great results.
Think your business is too boring to snag journalists with a press release? Nope. With a little creativity, any business can get free advertising through PR.
Pinterest, the interactive pinboard, is another social media platform gaining popularity. It's also another opportunity to get noticed and gain customers.
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Expected Value: How to Play the Odds and Come Out Ahead
By understanding the expected value concept, and making realistic assessments of your odds of success, you can make better decisions about how to allocate limited resources.
Résumé Quirks to Embrace and Avoid
To gain deeper insight into a candidate's capabilities, try these techniques for evaluating candidates with just a few résumé and work-related quirks.
Clipped Wings: Can Consumers Fix Air Travel?
From luggage fees, late flights, and TSA screening procedures, can air travel be saved? How can consumers help improve the industry?
5 Ways to Waste Money at Your Business
Even if you think you have been ruthless about hunting down “leaks” in your budget during the downturn, you may be surprised to find that your company still has some.
4 Reasons Why Millennials Should Be Optimistic About Their Finances
The Great Recession slowed young people's financial growth, but with today's economy, they're making up for lost time. Are you better off now, too?
Best Money Tips: 10 Silent Productivity Killers
Today we found some great articles on productivity killers you should stop right now, tips to remove indoor odors, and ways to take your morning coffee to the next level.
How to Become a Premier Local Brand
When potential customers decided to purchase products from lower-cost sources, one regional business decided to go luxury instead...with great results.
Free Advertising: The Magic of Getting Media Attention
Think your business is too boring to snag journalists with a press release? Nope. With a little creativity, any business can get free advertising through PR.
What Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Should You Measure?
With so many analytic tools available to business owners, it's easy to get lost in the data. Here's how to separate the analytic wheat from the chaff.
5 Cost Drivers To Help You Make Accurate Expense Projections
Employ cost drivers to prevent faulty overhead cost predictions from undermining your profit projection and planning efforts.
56,000 Money Saving Ideas from Uncle Sam
Take a page from the White House and reward employees who come up with clever ways to save money.
Why Showing Your Customers The Love Is More Important Than The Sale
If you give your customers reasons to love you, they will. Here are six.
Best Money Tips: Save on Baby Clothes
Today we found some awesome articles on saving on baby clothes, saving money on eyeglasses, and the most hated fees and price bumps.
Putting Pinterest to Work for You
Pinterest, the interactive pinboard, is another social media platform gaining popularity. It's also another opportunity to get noticed and gain customers.
3 Simple Ways Small Business Can Maximize Twitter
Twitter isn't for pitching. It's for networking.
The Inanity of my Humanity (and why I choose to share it on Wisebread)
What do David Beckham and grump callers from The Chronicle have in common? Teaching us to live life frugally, of course.
Last Minute Tax-Filing? Extended Post Office Hours and More
Isn't it weird that there isn't a central list of post offices at, oh I don't know, say, USPS.com, that tells you which post office branches are going to be open late tonight for last-minute filers? [more]
The Slow Bleed: Plugging Your Financial Leaks
Don't let your finances suffer death by a thousand cuts! Learn to stop the little leaks that add up to big bucks.
6 Bad Habits That Are Ruining Your Career
Put down the cigarette and the smartphone. It's time to ditch your bad habits, get back to work, and start getting ahead.
Everything You Need to Know About Unclaimed Property
Unclaimed Property consists of cash and other personal assets that are considered lost or abandoned after an owner cannot be located within a specified perio