“HateSurfing” is a term that describes the act of going online specifically to read as many negative comments, blog posts, tweets and messages as possible to generate insights that can help you run your business better.
Weekly Economic Update | LAEDC
THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES:
- LAEDC Annual Forecast: Emerging Opportunities and New Challenges in 2012 and Beyond
- GDP Growth Striving to Pick Up Steam
- International Economy – IMF & China
- California Home Sales & Prices in December
- California New Home Construction in December
- A Year-end Assessment of Nonresidential Construction in California
- Leading Economic Indicator Report for January
- Events of Interest
- February 15: LAEDC Economic Forecast and Industry Outlook
- February 17: Business Without Borders Presents: 2012 Global Economic Outlook
What Are You Retiring From? | Boaz Rauchwerger
There’s a lot of talk, especially in light of the developments of recent years, about retirement. Unfortunately, many people have lost much of their retirement nest eggs due to problems in real estate or in the stock market.
I received an interesting note the other day from a long-time friend, Dana Borowka, of Lighthouse Consulting, in Santa Monica, California. He offered a different view of retirement. Here is what he wrote:
“Last week I was thinking about retirement and what it means. The thought came – what am I going to retire from? Then the idea came – Today I’m retiring from fear and stress! I’ve shared that with a few people and the look on everyone’s face is – of course. They loved it.”
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Banking on mom and dad? | USFST.com
With traditional credit channels squeezed so much that even the bank of mom and dad is tightening its belt, social lending services have moved beyond typical peer-to-peer to target the inter-family space, as Ian Clover discovered.
New Business Ideas | CoolBusinessIdeas.com |
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via CoolBusinessIdeas.com | New Business Ideas, Innovations And Opportunities Around The World.
Do you bank smart? | USFST.com
With financial institutions throughout the country striving to cater for the broadest base of consumers possible, mobile banking is an increasingly competitive industry. But how can FIs grow their mobile banking operations in a way that best suits them and their customers?
Dwolla, The New E-Commerce Solution | CoolBusinessIdeas.com
The recent outbreak of alternative financial transaction services hasn’t yet caused giants like PayPal and Ebay to need reputation protection, but they may be looking to revamp their business models soon. The new kid on the block, Dwolla, threatens to shake things up in an industry that seems to change by the year.
If Twitter was 100 People… | information is beautiful.net
Does the Internet show the true colors of your business? | search engine guide.com
For big companies going online in the ’90s, the Internet was a shocker, laying bare all the silos within their organizations, as those units communicated directly to customers, with no homogenizing layer of customer service in between. So, if each of your business units had a different system for processing returns, it was no longer the poor telephone rep who had to deal with the crazy systems, now it was your customers.
Minority Report Is Coming | Cryptome
The two-year, $9 million project will create a suite of algorithms that can detect multiple types of insider threats by analyzing massive amounts of data — including email, text messages and file transfers — for unusual activity.
