Category: Business Owners

The gig economy by any other name (shared, contingent) is still a growing force of workers that get paid on a contingent or “gig” basis. An army of consultants, freelancers, and temporary staffers, they could represent at least 75 million workers in the U.S., with the power to make serious changes in the ways businesses work. How Gig Economics Reconfigures[…]

Marketing Podcast with Seth GodinPodcast Transcript This week on the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, I welcome back Seth Godin. A marketing expert and best-selling author of 19 books, Godin stops by to discuss his latest title, This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See. He shares why creating empathy and human connection are not only the[…]

Small businesses keep the United States going. From doctors and lawyers to builders and architects, coffee shops and art galleries, the people of the United States would have very different lives without small businesses. Afterall, small business keeps the economy going, but the economy does not always help them. Until now. It’s no secret that small businesses often have difficulty[…]

Back to Podcast This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order John Jantsch: You’re never gonna get your message across until you understand the problems and the challenges and you empathize with those people that you’re trying to get the message across to. In this episode of Duct Tape Marketing Podcast,[…]

In a nondescript office tower a mile from the Las Vegas Strip, two women toil in a windowless room crammed with bikinis in every size, style, and hue. It’s the stockroom of Bikini.com, an online swimwear store. Down the hall, colleagues are working to break into China’s red-hot market for surveillance software powered by artificial intelligence. Bikini.com is owned by[…]

On Tuesday, e-cigarette maker Juul announced an aggressive-sounding plan to prevent kids from using its nicotine products, including stopping the sale of most flavored pods in more than 90,000 US retail stores and shutting some of its social media accounts. The plan was a response to warnings from the Food and Drug Administration, which is expected to announce restrictions on[…]

The tech industry already spends tens of millions of dollars every year lobbying in Washington for federal regulations that will benefit their businesses—or, better yet, for no regulations at all. But while lawmakers on Capitol Hill have spent the last two years handwaving and making empty threats against Big Tech, regulators in the UK have been getting to work, strengthening[…]

When a business starts off from its nascent stage, it is usually a one-person show. The founder of the company will find themselves concentrating on the responsibilities of a CFO one day, figuring out the ways to procure outside financing, and the very next day they might be hit with tasks like cold calling or handling telephone calls and gathering[…]

After a 14-month search, Amazon announced Tuesday that it will open a pair of regional offices in two major metropolitan areas where it already has a presence: the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York, and Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington D.C. The decision comes after over 230 cities submitted bids to be home of the Seattle-based company’s highly-anticipated[…]

Technology around us is constantly evolving. Every time you turn around, there is a new gadget or gizmo to help keep us connected to the web and social worlds we live in. It should really come as no surprise that Facebook is unveiling the latest and greatest of smart devices. Facebook Portal is their upcoming product that will soon hit[…]