Content creators ready to harness their online publishing power can now get help from ClearVoice, a content platform built to showcase author authority. The platform enables brands and publications to search a comprehensive index of content producers by their areas of expertise. Writers, journalists and bloggers are also encouraged to claim their ClearVoice profiles to promote … [More]
Office in the Cloud
Getting documents, emails, calendar and spreadsheets through the cloud is truly the future and so convenient. Microsoft’s Office 365 is powered by the cloud, so users can get to their applications and files from virtually anywhere — PC, Mac and tablets — and they’re always up to date. Same goes for updates to features — users get them automatically. Cost varies with size of the … [More]
Career Transition Connections
CareerConnectors is a local nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting professionals in career transition to hiring companies and quality resources. Monthly events feature professional career speakers who deliver information that is relevant and actionable to current professionals, with two to three hiring companies invited per event. Employers will then get one-on-one face … [More]
Fraud Is Big in Online B2B Sales
Fraudulent Online Product Inquiries The impact of fraud is felt unevenly. As fraudsters succeed against businesses in an industry, they beget copycatters who continue to target that industry. Percentage of Inquiries that are Fraud Attempts Percent of Businesses Affected 75% … [More]
Cibo Pizzeria: An Urban Classic
Chic and urban may be the best way to describe Cibo (pronounced CHEE-boh), a Downtown Phoenix pizzeria, but it hardly embodies the appeal. That must be done by describing the food, which is truly authentic and creatively delicious. The old early-20th-century bungalow-style home has been transformed into a comfortable, urban hot spot with many rooms and a unique Old World charm … [More]
Quick Catering
Multiple people for lunch or an impromptu meeting may result in needing to find that perfect and quick catered lunch. Here are our picks for an easy, tasty, last-minute meal for many. Café Zupas New to this market, Café Zupas is a sandwich, soup and salad hot spot that is all about quality food made right. Catering consists of a quick call to the nearest location and speaking … [More]
New 2015 Porsche Macan Turbo
Entering the compact luxury SUV market is Porsche with the Macan Turbo. Built by Porsche to be a Porsche, this sports car (as it must be called) is an impressive champ on the road and an even more impressive sight to look at. With a 3.6-litre twin turbo V6 engine, this 400-horsepower vessel boasts 0-60 mph in just 4.6 seconds and entertains top speeds above 160 — setting a new … [More]
A Time to Retreat
Many companies believe that an off-site meeting or retreat will help executives and employees stay focused on the topics at hand. In Business Magazine has chosen some top locations in the Valley for that perfect planned get-away from the day-to-day. Black Canyon Conference Center This newly renovated property in the northern part of Phoenix boasts the latest in audio visual … [More]
Zero to One
The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange. This book is about how to build companies that create new things. It draws on everything … [More]
The Reciprocity Advantage
A powerful new kind of competitive advantage is now possible thanks to technological and social disruptions that are already occurring. These disruptions revolutionize how companies can partner to create new growth. The Reciprocity Advantage shares a model for creating that growth. Reciprocity and advantage are words that are not normally seen together, but reciprocity — … [More]
