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How to Conduct a SWOT Analysis for your Business

How to Conduct a SWOT Analysis for your Business
You know that fully grasping your financial climate is essential to running a successful business, and this doesn’t have to be a difficult process. Deanna Barzak By completing a SWOT analysis (defined as a “strategic management tool that is often used in business to analyze a company, process,...
October 4th, 2012 | $traight Talk | Read More

Fine Citizens hosts Office Olympics to raise money for charity

Fine Citizens hosts Office Olympics to raise money for charity
One local business took Summer Olympics inspiration to a whole new level. Columbus-based Fine Citizens, a creative agency specializing in responsive web design, held an Office Olympics to support local charities. Each of the seven employees at Fine Citizens were randomly paired with a nonprofit to represent...
September 28th, 2012 | Philanthropic Pursuit | Read More

Photographer expands into photo booth business with support from ECDI

Photographer expands into photo booth business with support from ECDI
Shawn Weese unofficially started his photography business, Weese Photos, in 2006. When he reached his capacity and wanted to expand by opening a studio and purchasing a photo booth to rent out for events, he approached Huntington Bank for a small loan. They sent him to the Economic and Community Development...
September 27th, 2012 | ECDI Spotlight | Read More

Simple approach may help with business’s electronic information

Simple approach may help with business’s electronic information
There may be no area where businesses are more behind the curve than in managing their electronic information to keep them out of trouble. That is not a criticism of businesses. The area has changed, and continues to change, so incredibly fast (at least if you grew up before the 1990s), it is almost...
September 20th, 2012 | Metropreneurial Legal Insights | Read More

Every Company Is A Tech Company

Every Company Is A Tech Company
Are you a technology company? We believe the answer is yes. Regardless of what industry you are in, leveraging technology can help you provide more value to your customers and help you increase your company’s value. Adam Hartung, author of “Create Marketplace Disruption: How to Stay Ahead...
September 12th, 2012 | Your Digital Business | Read More

Daycare center designed to meet needs of working families

Daycare center designed to meet needs of working families
Sisters and working moms Ayan Yusuf and Safiya Ismail were frustrated because they were unable to find clean, safe daycare center options that fit their second shift work schedules. They knew that other parents faced the same problem. Rather than continuing to look for a solution to their dilemma,...
August 30th, 2012 | ECDI Spotlight | Read More

Winterizing Your Business

Winterizing Your Business
Football season starts next week in Columbus. The election is 11 weeks away. There are fewer than 20 shopping weeks until Christmas. And the tax cliff is four months away. Chances are you need to start doing some fourth quarter prep activities in your business. The billion dollar boys and girls are already...
August 29th, 2012 | Growth Strategies | Read More

Making A Records Plan: 6 Questions To Start The Process

Making A Records Plan: 6 Questions To Start The Process
Few things are as important and as challenging for a growing business as having a handle on the lawful and strategic creation, maintenance, and destruction of records. For starters, it goes without saying that having full command of your business’s information has great competitive value. Information...
August 23rd, 2012 | Metropreneurial Legal Insights | Read More
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