Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Many manufacturers struggle to maintain their competitive positions in regional and global markets that are changing faster than ever.

Regardless of the impact of the Affordable Care Act, the members of the board of directors of the Council of Small Business Executives (COSBE) are remarkably bullish about their prospects for 2013.

As kids, our well-intentioned dentist forcefully instructed us to "Brush and floss twice each day." Sound advice that we largely ignored. After we blew off that first evening chore and realized the world didn't end, we became more ambivalent on following the regimen with precision.

The latest federal government data shows Wisconsin’s job growth is still lagging the U.S. average, with experts suggesting the reasons range from pre-recall election paralysis to reliance on manufacturing to shortages of skilled workers.

A September research report by Ceres, a Boston, Mass.-based business sustainability advocacy organization, was eerily prescient.

The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning fans to beware of potential scams selling fake tickets to the Green Bay Packers’ playoff game in San Francisco Saturday.

Listen to words of wisdom from some of our founding fathers and political thinkers:

It's Monday morning and you have just finished your first cup of coffee, kissed your spouse goodbye and drove to your office. You are the first one to arrive and turn on the lights. As you finish your second cup of coffee, your employees begin to arrive as they have done for the last 30 years.

The fallout from Hurricane Sandy will be with us for years, and it will extend far beyond the devastation in New York City, New Jersey and other parts of the East Coast.

Many people suffer from triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13. Instead of fearing it, embrace it and use it to your advantage in your social media marketing for 2013!