As a business that caters to local customers, you may not feel you can benefit from the worldwide reach of the internet. However, there are still many advantages of marketing online. Below are just some of the biggest benefits of having an online presence as a local business.  An online presence can increase trust If…

About Lance Mortlock Lance Mortlock is a strategic partner with Ernst & Young, based in Canada. He has provided management consulting services over 20 years to more than 60 organizations in 11 countries overseeing hundreds of projects. Mortlock has had the opportunity to work with the C-suite at leading national and international mining, oil and…

About Alan Payne Alan Payne, a strategic leader, spent thirty-one years in the movie rental business, the last twenty-five of those as a Blockbuster retail franchisee. He took over a small group of Blockbuster stores in 1993 and grew it into one of the largest and most successful chains in the company. He finally closed…

About Cade Metz Cade Metz is a reporter with The New York Times, covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Genius Makers is his first book. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine and the U.S. editor of The Register, one of Britain’s leading science and technology…

Last week, Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, were presented with the choice to unionize. 70% of the vote was against unionization. Here are the reasons why they said NO to the union. They make more per hour than many jobs in the area and they have an opportunity to grow and get salary increases.…