How Waiters Read Your Table

What looks like a convivial scene is a waiter’s nightmare: people at a table, chatting away, menus closed with drinks in their hands. Yet when Alex Martin, a 26-year-old waiter at Blue Smoke restaurant in New York, tried to take their order “they...

5 Small Business Tax Breaks You Might Overlook

If you are like most small businesses in the United States you wear a lot of hats when it comes to your company operations.  As a small business owner, you also have the least room for error. Most small businesses and especially new businesses don’t have the...

Achieve Your Lifelong Goals Thru Financial Planning

Personal finance is a subject that is of great interest to almost anyone who holds money in their hands. Even children are interested in personal finance even if they don’t know that they should use that terminology to define this interest. From the minute they get...

10 Stealthy Techniques for Self-Promotion

Marketing is a lot like fishing—some companies cast a wide net to scoop up whatever they can get, while others use bait and wait it out until the right customer takes a nibble. To be successful, you need a combination of both techniques to not only grab a large number...

Why Best Buy is Going out of Business…Gradually

Those are just some of the numbers, and they don’t look good. They bear out a prediction in March from the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Streets column, which forecast “the worst is yet to come” for Best Buy investors. With the flop of 3D televisions and...