Pedro Hernandez

Meetings get a bad rap. Often considered time drains, they’re maligned for bringing productivity to a grinding halt and for failing to advance business objectives. If you’re in sales (and really, what small business owner isn’t?), your job depends on productive meetings with clients. How do you make the most of these gatherings? Entrepreneur Travis […]

Intuit’s cloud-based accounting software, QuickBooks Online, will soon sport a new, more modern look, but the improvements go deeper than pixel-deep. According to Kevin Kirn, group product manager of QuickBooks Online and new products, the online small business accounting software has been “rewritten from the ground up to be simple but to still retain all […]

Neat, the maker of document and receipt scanners and associated software, has announced NeatConnect, a Wi-Fi enabled version of its hardware. It works independently of a PC, and you can therefore “locate it in a central place in an office,” says Jenn Choi, vice president of marketing for the company. A color touch-screen delivers all […]

Add Acronis to the list of partners that have signed on to help expand the capabilities of the px line of network attached storage (NAS) devices from LenovoEMC (formerly Iomega), a joint venture between Chinese PC maker Lenovo and the data storage giant. Powered by Intel processors, the px portfolio of rack-mount and standalone desktop […]

That scathing Yelp review can not only damage your company’s reputation, it can hound you for years to come. Given the number of decisions driven by online research in this day and age, small businesses can’t afford not to manage their reputations, says Michael Zammuto, president of Brand.com. Brand.com specializes in helping companies avoid the damaging […]

Running a small business is tough enough without cobbling together and maintaining an IT infrastructure. A cloud-services provider based in New York City, Booker is out to lessen the IT burden with its cloud-based service management platform. Booker creates software for services and hospitality companies such as spas, hotels, repair shops or practically any “business that […]

It takes little more than weeding out unwanted email from your inbox and a few moments fiddling with spam filters, to make most people question the true effectiveness of email marketing.  Not so for Tim Dunkin and Dina Orlova, owners of the Admirals Beach Retreat in Oregon. They don’t need to be convinced of email marketing’s benefits […]

Launching a startup can be exciting, nerve-wracking, exhausting and, if it all pans out, extremely rewarding. But what do you do when the dust settles and your business is practically running on autopilot? Take back the controls. No matter how well established and rock-solid, no business is unassailable. Predictable revenues, healthy profit margins and superior […]

Entrepreneur Bryan DeLuca never envisioned selling funky socks online. The music and apparel industries were more his speed. Eventually he discovered that he had a knack for business development but it was a trip with his wife to Europe that led him to the idea behind his successful startup, Foot Cardigan. Two weeks into a three-month […]

Is resistance holding back your business? If new initiatives seem to wither on the vine and best laid plans go nowhere, these are signs that your workforce is resisting change. While not all resistance is bad, a failure to adapt and change in business can have disastrous consequences. “Studies have shown that about 70 percent […]

Intuit, the maker QuickBooks and other small business software staples, kicked off a bold new program that has the potential to supersize a small business come Super Bowl Sunday. Equal parts contest, social media outreach, educational resource and a major promotion, the Intuit Small Business Big Game program represents the company’s effort to swing the spotlight on […]

Road trip! It’s not an adventure that high-level executives usually indulge in as part of their professional lives. But at Sage, a maker of business and accounting software, several executives piled into an RV and participated in a cross-country tour of the U.S. to meet up with its small business software customers. The Sage Listens RV Relay, […]