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Did you borrow a lot of dough to go to Law School, Junior?
In an ironic, but sensible turnabout, outsourcing firms which have radically restructured the pricing of legal services in America are now on-shoring jobs. Young lawyers have been working at $20.00 per hour legal temp jobs for document reviews that used … Continue reading
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Busy Day(s)
Shelburne Falls Partnership last night 21st Century Business Roundtable Meet with Tina Clark (http://www.tinaclarkeus.org) and Kirsten Bonanza (http://www.kirstenbonanza.com/) about Transition Towns Hidden-Tech Spring Social – http://www.hidden-tech.net/events/149-may-26-2011-spring-social-at-the-hotel-northampton.html DELA Greenfield tomorrow Meeting with Skytemple (http://www.skytemple.com) tomorrow Too much fun – really. See … Continue reading
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Make An Easy $200,000.00!
Drop out of your MBA program, save a couple of hundred grand, and read The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business (Amazon link) by Josh Kaufman. Swallow it whole and keep coming back for quick introductions to business topics that … Continue reading
Western Mass Economic Development: Holyoke to get another building in Gateway Park
http://www.wbjournal.com/news48409.html A Holyoke builder, The O’Connell Cos. Inc., will lease property from WPI to finance, construct and own a $30-million, four-story building at 50 Prescott St. The 92,000-square-foot building is expected to house about 140 employees and would be the … Continue reading
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Western Mass is a great place for a Staycation
Local tourism is growing fast. West (Franklin) County (where I live) is an ideal place to locate a business that plays in the local tourism market. In Shelburne Falls we’ve got a great brand, nice people, and lots of opportunities … Continue reading
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Western Mass Travel: Bradley Airport growing again
2010 saw new carriers and expanded service coming to Bradley, Western Massachusetts’ regional airport. Great if you could fly to Europe from Bradley! From Masslive.com: http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/2011/02/bradley_international_airport_takes_off.html
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Social Media case study – Marketing Over Coffee interviews Alure Homes
Alure Home Improvements is a huge home improvement contracting company in the New York area. They were contacted by ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to participate in their program, which builds new homes from scratch in under a week for … Continue reading
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Three Little Words: Themes for the New Year
Chris Brogan has a habit of choosing three words for himself as his themes for the New Year. http://www.chrisbrogan.com/my-3-words-for-2011/. Better than old-style New Year’s resolutions, I think. For 2011 he came up with Reinvest – Package – Flow. I came up … Continue reading
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Learn how to automate EVERYTHING in your business: More Podcasts
Links to a couple of podcasts about starting online businesses. http://automatemysmallbusiness.com/ has been around for awhile. The two guys who do it both have successful online businesses and the podcast gives details about how to do almost everything you can … Continue reading
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SEO Cheat Sheet: the 80/20 Rule vs the Arms Race
The more I learn about SEO (Search Engine Optimization), the more I see how the 80/20 rule applies. There are clear, well-understood, easy to do best practices. Then you can go on forever refining your SEO. Not usually worth it … Continue reading