February 2009

Keep your Documents Safe

photo credit: fsse8info Every year businesses spend millions of dollars on copying documents and filing and even specific employees to do the filing of the documents. In 2009, rather then spending all that time and money on your business documents, why not switch over to digital archiving? It’s really not as complex as it sounds.

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Tweak Your Brain With Colors

Wired: For an all-natural brain boost, skip the pills and hit the colors. In the latest and most authoritative study on color’s cognitive effects, test subjects given attention-demanding tasks did best when primed with the color red. Asked to be creative, they responded best to blue. “Color enhances performance,” said study co-author Juliet Zhu, a

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Vontoo

BusinessWeek: Vontoo started out as a voice-messaging tool, blasting targeted lists of people with prerecorded pitches from the likes of Greg Oden, the No. 1 pick in the National Basketball Assn.’s 2007 draft, who “called” Portland Trailblazer season ticket holders to re-up for another year. But as times have grown tougher, the 25-employee company has

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Starbucks Plays Common Joe

The Wall Street Journal: Starbucks Corp., which built a coffee empire on its premium image, wants to convince customers that its drinks aren’t that expensive. The company said Monday that it’s selling discounted pairings of coffee and breakfast food for $3.95, a type of promotion long used at fast-food chains. It’s the first move in

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Sprint Business Fantasy Camp

This sounds interesting: Business Fantasy Camp is a brand new web series that gives you the chance to gain expert business advice from some of the world’s most prolific celebrities and business leaders. Tell Sprint your business challenge and you could be off to learn from a famous restaurateur, a Broadway theater producer, or a

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