If you're a small business owner feeling the pinch of a tightening budget, listen up! In the spirit of the endless press being given to this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals comes this USAToday.com article on how small businesses can take...

A formidable hybrid that takes the speed of quick-service and combines it with the quality and atmosphere of casual dining, fast casual restaurants have a good thing going during this recession. Perhaps impressed by their slightly more upscale kin,...

Here's an interesting thought offered by Paul Glover in a recent post for Fast Company's FC Expert Blog: "...to a great degree, everyone's actions are determined by their environment."While a store's over all design aesthetic is incredibly important,...

If you're even remotely connected to the marketing profession, you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't regularly check out Seth Godin's blog. Lots of riffs and rants and things to make you go, "Hmm," and the best part is that more often than...

The Yankes win in 6. Over the course of the 6-game play-off for the worldly title, there was speculation, surprises, heroics, and everything else expected from a competition between the two "best" teams in baseball. And as the season comes to a close,...