Social media has become quite a staple in today’s business environment – impacting both, small and large, businesses. For a small business, swimming through this deep pool can, quite often, present its own set of challenges. If they believe they do not have the tools leverage social media. And yet, as a small business owner,…

Image from maggie-jackson.com, where credit was given to Karen Smul Ivan Misner, the founder of the networking organization BNI, once said, ”Learn how to be here now”. But he says that we are increasingly living and networking in a distracted world. Former Boston Globe columnist, Maggie Jackson, says “never before have we been so disconnected”. She says,…

  Image downloaded from Flickr.com/Michael Helss under Creative Commons Three years ago, leaving the safe environs of a corporate job and moving into the rough and tumble world of running your own small business was a paradigm shift. Given my growing up years, I developed into a introvert for better part of my early life.…