Confession: I love the Food Network show “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” I make a mental list of huge sandwiches and house specials I want to try if I ever go to the featured city, and have even checked their list of past restaurants multiple times to see if there’s anything near me I missed,...
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Organic food and products is just one example of an industry that’s exploding due to customer demand. Statistics from the Organic Trade Association tell us that over the past 20 years, the industry has grown from $1 billion to nearly $25 million. The Indianapolis Business Journal had a great story today about one local...
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When you go into the office or meet an important client, you dress for success, right? But what if you were having financial difficulties and couldn’t afford a new suit? Dress for Success Indianapolis is working to give professional women the clothing they need to land the job and for their first few weeks...
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Interns can be an invaluable resource to any company, big or small. And not only does it provide the intern access to the inner workings of a company, allowing them to grow and learn as a future professional, it also could be a grooming process for a great future employee. A healthy internship program...
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Webinars are a great way to pack a lot of information into a short time frame — all from the comforts of your home or office. Dale Carnegie Training of Central Indiana is offering one such webinar titled Attracting the Best Talent to Drive Economic Recovery. Your competitors are hiring again, now that the...
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If you’re on Twitter, you’ve surely seen the #sxsw tags. As it turns out, there are probably a lot of Indiana start-ups involved in the South By Southwest Interactive Conference, which gets in high gear today. Indianapolis Business Journal’s website reports that more than 100 area entrepreneurs are heading down to the conference. Although...
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Is your business represented on online review sites such as CitySearch or Google? There’s a very good chance that it is, but are you aware of what people are saying about you? If your business has negative reviews, the important thing is to make sure you don’t engage negativity with defensiveness or more negativity;...
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I am definitely guilty of doing this: Making a list of things to do for the day, not getting everything done, and then feeling bad about it. In fact, I had to stop making monthly to-dos (organize office, frame artwork for bedroom, etc.) because it was making me too discouraged re-writing the list every...
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We’ve all sat through them — the painful office meeting. They usually start out innocuously enough, with a valid topic, all the correct players at the table, maybe even an agenda. But before too long, the meeting takes a headfirst dive. The Harvard Business Review has a piece today on this very topic —...
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We’ve all seen the advertisements online and in the newspaper classifieds. Those touting a too-good-to-be-true work-from-home offer, often for part-time work that promises thousands of dollars a month. So how do you cut through the noise and decide if an opportunity is truly legitimate? Monster has a few tips for knowing what to look...
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