If you’ve ever been to the Downtown Phoenix area on the first Friday night of the month, you most likely noticed that the streets were alive with people. At First…
Starting this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will begin enforcing a new law, the Red Flags Rule, to combat identity theft. It regulates most businesses that sell goods or…
I’d like the pie heated and I don’t want the ice cream on top, I want it on the side, and I’d like strawberry instead of vanilla, if you have…
In the Web’s early days, self-styled seers proclaimed that the ironclad law of online commerce would be survival of the cheapest. Consumers could compare products with a few clicks of…
William Pepicello, Ph.D. President, University of Phoenix Describe your very first job and what lessons you learned from it. My first job was reading gas meters in Erie, Penn., as…
Today, people generally recognize the importance of shopping locally and supporting our region’s independently owned and operated businesses. But that wasn’t always the case. As recently as seven years ago,…
When a weatherman says, “Cloudy today — chance of storms,” he could be talking about hosted cloud services. As businesses look to manage their workflows more efficiently, it seems as…
The market turmoil of the last 18 months has caused investors to ask a lot of questions. Am I properly diversified and allocated to withstand additional market gyrations? Is my…
In tough times, the give-and-take relationship between workers and employers needs to be nurtured U.S. productivity is up. According to the latest reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the…
In today’s economy everybody is looking for ways to improve their cash flow, especially as it relates to real estate. Implementing tax-saving strategies is certainly a way to help cash…
Doug Fulton CEO, Fulton Homes How would you assess the current state of the home building industry? Today, I would say it’s in recovery. I would definitely say we have…
Steven Koeppel Scottsdale Jean Company Title: Owner Est: 2005 | www.scottsdalejc.com “You can never learn too much and you can never be too smart – ask a lot of questions.”…
