Leadership Connections Series

by Mike Hunter

Bloomberg TV provides a multitude of videos on leadership and other business-related topics. Its “Leadership Connections” series offers interviews by some of the top leaders in American business. … [More]

Track What They Say About You

by Mike Hunter

Review Trackers is a brand new review monitoring solution designed to help mom-and-pops, small businesses and entrepreneurs manage their online reputation by helping business owners listen and respond to what their customers are saying about their product and service. … [More]

New App Ties Location to Files

by Mike Hunter

People or organizations can tag maps and floor plans of specific buildings, maintenance records and educational videos to a piece of equipment, or relevant tasks and checklists to a certain area of a facility. Any type of file or document that can be stored in the cloud can be tied to a location for easy lookup with the new Float Mobile Learning app, Wayfiler. … [More]

Making Language Barriers Disappear

by Mike Hunter

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, U.S. organizations are facing a critical skills gap in foreign languages. Only 5.6 percent of the world population speaks English as a primary language, yet only 11.4 percent of the U.S. population is fluent in more than one language. Download this eight-page white paper by Rosetta Stone for more.   … [More]

Arizona Admin Serves

by Mike Hunter

Few know the Arizona Department of Administration or that it has a website for Arizona State jobs, procurement with the State and other benefits for individuals and businesses. The site will also inform on public meetings and notices that pertain to Arizonans. … [More]

AZ TechCelerator Surprises

by Mike Hunter

The City of Surprise is a leader in mentoring of new and innovative business with its AZ TechCelerator program. Mentorships, discounted space and a City-supported drive to succeed are helping micro to small business. Apply online. … [More]

IRS is Your Partner in Business?

by Mike Hunter

The IRS is exploring opportunities to partner with organizations to help entrepreneurs in Arizona thrive in their business ventures, especially new sole proprietors. By providing links and downloadable PDFs, it gives proprietors a site to find information through tax publications, videos and social media. It also provides specific resource information in PDF format for … [More]

Contest is Win for Small Business

by Mike Hunter

The Arizona Small Business Association announced the winner for its amAZing® Small Business Video Contest at the 20th Annual Enterprise Business Awards Luncheon last month at The Phoenician. All In The Present won first place, along with $500 cash. The other finalists were Kaptured Photography, SWAT Fitness and Benjamin Franklin Plumbing. … [More]

Cashing In on the ‘Internet of Things’

by RaeAnne Marsh

Presence, a recently launched smartphone application from Mesa-based People Power, is the first free wireless Web camera made by recycling old smartphones or mobile devices as cameras, which can be used as monitoring devices. Users include the City of Globe’s school district, which uses smartphones donated by the residents as an affordable measure to maintain security … [More]

Demographics Drive Housing Market

by RaeAnne Marsh

Lifestyle-inspired design change is the approach Maracay Homes is taking to make its new homes stand out in the re-emerging housing market. Among the features in its Arizona Collection are an “owner’s entry” from the garage, with cubbies for personal items and a technology station for docking electronic devices, that displaces the laundry room to a new location behind the … [More]