CEO, Owners

A Mask For Ill-Occasions Offers Protection, Style

Achoo! In the airplane, the bus or around the new baby, it is the sound of germs spraying out of the mouths of the sick onto innocent bystanders.

In most cases, there are no tissues or masks in sight; no means of protection.

Jody Vitelli, CEO and founder of Tutem Mask, says “she felt passionate and indignant about the lack of movement to change this, so she took matters into her own hands.

As she explains, “beginning in 2012, I set out on a mission to develop and manufacture a fun-looking mask that would diminish the stigma behind wearing it.”

Five Steps For More Effective Family Business Transitions

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

According to Stephen Sayre and Mark Weisbard of law firm Dykema, this well-worn adage applies in spades to successfully exiting or transitioning a family-owned business.  Whether an owner is considering a sale or intergenerational transfer in the near or distant future, there are five important steps every owner should take today to make the transition -- whenever it ultimately occurs – smoother and more profitable:

Online Rental Application Program Reduces Time, Costs, Errors

Surveys have shown that accepting and screening rental applications is one of the most time consuming parts of managing a commercial real estate enterprise.  It is even more time consuming for smaller "mom-and-pop" operations with less than 20 rental units.

Selling Your Small Business Requires A Different Set Of Management Tools, Focus

Business owners should stick to what they know best – running their businesses – and leave it to the professionals when trying to sell their enterprises.

Inventors Can Showcase Products, Ideas On New Website

Showcasing an invention or idea while still protecting the intellectual properties from theft is a continuing problem for smaller firms.  A possible solution is being offered on new web site that helps inventors protect their ideas from theft, while at the same time showcases their creations to potential investors and buyers.

The Top 11 Issues Facing Small Business Leaders In 2011

The New Year ushers in a series of new regulatory, compliance, and legislative changes that affect every small business. Paychex, Inc., a provider of payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, offers these 11 issues that they believe small businesses need to know about in 2011.

Four Keys to Extracting Maximum Value From Consultants

Every year, billions of dollars are spent on consultants that organizations hire with the goal of achieving greater levels of business performance.

Too often, these consultants produce underwhelming results for overwhelming fees.

In Tight Credit Market, 5 Keys to Negotiating a Personal Guarantee

In today's world, chances are that the lender or lessor will require owners and major shareholders of a small to midsize business to sign a personal guarantee during the  refinancing debt or a bank loan, when leasing a facility or purchasing new equipment.

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