The Arizona’s Economy App is a project of the University of Arizona’s Economic and Business Research Center at the Eller College of Management, which has 65+ years of providing Arizona citizens and decision makers with award-winning economic forecasts and applied economic research for Arizona. The free app for iPhone, iPad and Android offers users access to real-time economic … [More]
IRS Instruction Videos for Business
Few know that the Internal Revenue Service provides instructional and informational presentation videos on most aspects of business taxes for small business owners. Videos include presentations on forms, starting a business, workshops, filing and paying taxes and even disaster information. High-quality and simple to understand, the IRS video presentations are a quick way to … [More]
Trade Show Displays Made Easy
Air is what powers Skyline’s breakthrough exhibit system called WindScape. Fabricated with a bladder system that creates the framework, WindScape inflates in three to four minutes. It also offers the convenience of being lighter-weight than traditional exhibit systems. Where a traditional 10-foot backwall will weigh 60 to 80 pounds, a 10-foot WindScape backwall weighs about 20 … [More]
Ecommerce in an Instant
Building one’s own business online is easy these days, and Shopify, Inc. is a complete online e-commerce solution to sell and manage a product-based business. With templates online or by creating a personalized one, it is as easy as uploading the products, information, images and logos to be open for business worldwide. A trusted solution, Shopify advises on how to sell, market … [More]
Legal Through a Click
LegalZoom.com, Inc. has widely been received as a valid option for businesses, for smaller documents and ongoing corporate compliance. Setting out to create new standards and convenience for business owners, the accredited site offers legal protection in the areas of trademarking, business start-up in all 50 states and other common legal issues. For the more complex needs, the … [More]
Make Business Decisions with Confidence
Marc Sachnoff, two-time Emmy-nominated TV producer and founder of new Kirkland-based start-up ModernWisdom.com, offers a new video-based e-course aimed at helping managers and business leaders become more confident in their decision-making abilities in every aspect of their work and life. In this 60-minute online workshop, Sachnoff shares an innovative process based on powerful … [More]
Employee Verification Services
The Work Number, a State of Arizona-recommended vendor, can fulfill the verification requests a business receives, on its current and historical employee population, from banks, potential employers, apartment complexes and government agencies, just to name a few — allowing a business to comply and be secure in whom it hires. … [More]
Small Business Research
Experian’s small-business credit research reports make it easy to find a variety of information about any business in its database of more than 27 million active U.S. businesses. Its precise and unbiased credit reports offer the vital facts and figures required for making powerful business decisions, getting to know the clients’ credibility and more. … [More]
Google Apps for Business
Google Apps for Business is a cloud-based productivity suite for business that helps the team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. It’s simple to set up, use and manage, allowing users to work smarter and focus on what really matters. With Gmail, Calendar, Drive (storage), Docs, Sheets (spreadsheets) and Slides (presentations), it has all that is needed to … [More]
Tap into Big Data for Profit
Big data is capable of making a big impact on the bottom line of businesses. The term describes the exponential growth and availability of data, which businesses are eager to exploit. But this overwhelming abundance of data is important to businesses only if they are able to accurately analyze it in a timely manner, which can lead to more confident decision making. The term … [More]
Info Must Be Right to Get Found Online
Small businesses lose $10 billion annually due to missing or outdated information online, a problem GoDaddy’s Get Found program is designed to solve. Businesses can use a scan, which Get Found offers for free, to see how they appear across different sites, search engines and devices. Then, as a content management system that is partnered with Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yelp and more, … [More]
Videos from W. P. Carey Offer Options
See latest videos to explore exciting and growing industries: The Bachelor of Arts degree in Business with a concentration in Sports and Media Studies delivers operational understanding of the sports and media industries while helping develop business acumen and knowledge. Finance and Banking and other opportunities for executives or grads can be seen on the W. P. Carey School … [More]
How to Succeed
CrowdCrux and CrowdfundingForum launch e-book How to Succeed at Kickstarter. From game developers to musicians, Kickstarter has become a platform where creative types can attract a crowd and launch their dream projects without having to go through a major publishing outlet or a traditional label. This e-book by founders Salvador Briggman and Brian Krassenstein is a compilation … [More]
A Less-Taxing Solution
Taxjar, an automated sales tax solution, helps businesses by tracking their sales tax and can even report back on the their previous year’s sales with what they should have collected and the amount they should be reporting. For businesses as well as accountants working with many clients. … [More]
Free Filing Services
The Free File Alliance, a coalition of industry-leading tax software companies partnered with the Internal Revenue Service, launched the 2014 Free File program. Every taxpayer with a 2013 Adjusted Gross Income of $58,000 or less may visit this site to prepare, complete and e-file their federal tax returns at no cost. Also available free is a comprehensive suite of online tax … [More]
How Does It All Ad Up
It’s important for even the top executives to have the personal ability to add up the numbers. Here are some of our picks for the best personal calculators outside of the company’s in-house accounting department, a mobile device or the computer itself. These stand-alone models will get the job done. Canon MP11DX Desktop Printing Calculator The perfect combination of … [More]
Big Data
Whether it is used by the NSA to fight terrorism or by online retailers to predict customers’ buying patterns, big data is a revolution occurring around us, in the process of forever changing economics, science, culture and the very way we think. But it also poses new threats, from the end of privacy as we know it to the prospect of being penalized for things we haven’t even … [More]
The Intelligent Web
As we use the Web for social networking, shopping and news, we leave a personal trail. Linger over a Web page selling lamps, and they will turn up at the advertising margins as you move around the Internet, tempting you to make that purchase. And there are pages that collect and assess information to give you a snapshot of changing political opinion. Gautam Shroff takes us on a … [More]
