Guest Post: Skyrocket Your Productivity ...

by Joshua Zerkel In my work with small/medium businesses and entrepreneurs, I hear a near-constant refrain: overwhelm, overwork, and lack of productivity. While there’s no one silver bullet that can solve all of these problems in one fell swoop, choosing and implementing the right technology can make a HUGE difference not only to how you work, but to your overall bottom line in your business. In particular, online or cloud-based tools (that is, applications or services that you access via the internet, instead of being installed on your computer) have a number of...

Small Business: The Balancing Act to Pro...

Our team has had the opportunity to sit down recently with many small businesses owners and their employees. We know these workers are constantly strapped for time — but we were looking to understand more about what’s filling their schedules. We recently spoke with a woman who manages multiple parts of a small Bay Area-based biotech company. She wears many hats for the company — marketing and communication, business management, purchasing, and several one-off day-to-day tasks. Her job is a constant balancing act. For her purchasing role, she relies on a series of...

Big Data: Why Are So Many Missing the Po...

These days, everyone is talking about Big Data. Politicians are using it to microtarget voters. Parents are relying on baby-data apps to compare their children’s progress to others. Universities are crunching numbers to predict the success of their students. And, across the board, innovative companies are harnessing the massive amounts of available Big Data to get an edge on the competition. We’re all talking about Big Data at conferences, cocktail parties, and networking events. I’m as engaged in these conversations as the next person, as data analytics is critical...

What Are the Best and Worst Days of the ...

USA Today cites Rearden Commerce analytics in predicting the best and worst days of the year to fly.

Traveling Smarter with Smartphones

When I was a kid, we couldn’t book travel without a travel agent. By the time I became an established adult*, I was able to book my family’s vacations at the comfort of my own computer. Today, we’re quickly getting to the point where I don’t have to have an agent or my trusty laptop to research, book or review my travel itineraries — I, and you, am quite close to doing this all on my smartphone. More than half of Americans now have smartphones, which they are using for everything from social networking to commerce to gaming to communicating. And now, according to...