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Being a sales manager is one of the most difficult jobs on the planet. It requires a thorough knowledge of virtually every aspect of the business. And it suffers from a high turnover because the sales manager is ALWAYS the scape-goat when things goes wrong. Given that the job is so difficult, I thought it might be helpful to provide some advi  More...
Serial entrepreneur, Peter J. Burns, III, the founder of Club Entrepreneur and the nation's first College of Entrepreneurship just launched the eFactory, a state-of-the-art entrepreneurial resource center housing dozens of start-up busineses. The prototype and Club E headquarters recently launched in Phoenix and in a recently signed agreement with  More...
Start-up entrepreneurial resource center, eFactory, LLC, the brainchild of serial entrepreneur, Peter J. Burns, III, recently announced that they had entered into an agreement to open up multiple eFactory facilities in Green Street Properties' shopping centers in Gilbert, Goodyear and Chandler, Arizona as well as sites in Las Vegas and Dallas. The  More...
Mega developer Green Street Properties teams up with eFactory to build out five initial facilities to house start-up entrepreneurs from the Club E Network. The first eFactory will be in Gilbert, Arizona to be followed by one in Goodyear, Arizona, then Chandler, Arizona and finally in Las Vegas and Dallas...all in Green Street Properties' shopping  More...
The figures show that during hard times (this past six months) the large companies are cutting jobs left and right, while small businesses (less than 50 employees) keep expanding and producing jobs.  More...
The latest BizBooks, hosted by Slate's BizBox, will take place this Thursday with Scott Cooney--author of Build a Green Small Business--taking questions on how to build a company that is both eco-friendly and profitable. Submit questions now!  More...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming more prevalent in our global economy. The other night, a TV commercial informed viewers that a car company is operating a manufacturing plant that has achieved zero landfill status - nothing from its manufacturing efforts goes into a landfill. Going carbon-neutral is also gaining a lot of press. Se  More...
A new software application for tracking carbon footprints is being developed by a start-up in the UK that uses GPS on mobile phones to figure out whether you’re walking, running, driving, flying– you get the picture– and then estimating the impact this has on the environment.  More...
As life-long employment fades and the workforce becomes increasingly mobile, many companies look to hire skilled, experienced workers to improve productivity quickly. Those workers, however, often bring baggage from prior jobs that can negate the benefits of their prior experience, according to new Wharton research. Companies might be better of  More...
Bucking the perception that environmentalism is a youth movement, a new survey finds that male and female consumers over age 55 are the most prolific users of green products in the United States.  More...
Small business advocates want to make sure the Environmental Protection Agency gets their input before they issue regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions.  More...
In launching TerraCycle's lines of liquid fertilizer, cleaners, repellents, etc., I realized something: Almost all products that are sold as liquid in a bottle -- from window cleaner to ant repellent -- are in fact extremely similar to bottled water. In most cases, the difference is only 1% to 2% of the contents. In other words, these products ar  More...