Jennifer Schiff

It seems like every few months the big-name digital camera manufacturers — Canon, Kodak, Sony, Nikon and Olympus — come out with new models touting some new improvement or must-have feature. With so many brands, models, megapixels and features to choose from, how is a small business owner to pick the right digital camera? SmallBusinessComputing.com […]

When does it make more sense to buy computers? When does it make more sense to lease? Small Business Computing talked to two fast-growing small businesses, one that made the buy decision, one that decided to lease, to find out. We also spoke with executives at Dell Financial Services and HP Financial Services to find […]

To Zach Nelson, the president and chief executive officer of NetSuite, CRM — and business in general — is all about the “C,” customers. “What’s more important to a company than your customers?” he asks. “That’s what companies are all about: people buying things from you.” That’s why finding the right CRM solution is critical, […]

Suzi Nimz, the CEO of Turnaround, a New Hampshire-based fulfillment house, likes to ask prospective customers what they do after one o’clock each day. The reason, says Nimz, is that if they are properly focused on growing their business, “they’ll find that after one o’clock they can’t get anything done because they have a shipping […]

Donna Danis’s story is one that many small office/home office (SOHO) and even larger small businesses are familiar with. Danis, the founder and president of Just In Time Marketing in New Hampshire, kept track of her time on slips of paper, inputting the information into Excel spreadsheets at the end of each month or project. […]

In 1993, AT&T commissioned a study of small businesses. The survey found that companies that had a business plan were far more likely to succeed than those that did not. Commenting on the study, Ian MacMillan, the director of the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School said, “A comprehensive […]

Yesterday, Jennifer Schiff profiled Two Jakes, a quirky furniture store that launched its e-commerce store last year. Today, JupiterResearch’s Patti Freeman Evans talks about the growing trend of traditional stores finding success online “Online retail growth continues at double-digit rates and will continue that way over the next five years,” says Freeman Evans. “And the […]

An acclaimed jazz bass player, David “Jake” Jacobs is the first one to tell you he is not your traditional businessman. While he had run a small secondhand furniture shop in college to help pay the bills, he quickly ditched it to play bass full time. In 1997, Jake decided he needed a more stable […]