If you’re a business owner who’s interested in boosting your SEM (search engine marketing) game, you probably already know that online advertising in the form of Google Ads is one of the most effective actions you can take when it comes to garnering new business. For...
Making Your Own Way: Getting Started in the Gig Economy
By guest blogger: Lucy Reed, owner/blogger/developer, https://gigmine.co/ If, like many people, you’ve spent the majority of your working life in a traditional office environment, the idea of starting your own gig can seem pretty scary. However, if you’re fed up with...
How We Dropped Google AdWords Cost Per Conversion 76% in Less than 2 Months
written by guest blogger, Ben Robertson from Menadena. Menadena had the pleasure of taking over for a food products company, a Shopify customer whose website we designed and we now manage their SEO. We were working with 6 months of Google Analytics data at the time...
Maximizing Profits and People with guest blogger Jeanne Dietsch
The weary stereotype that pits people against profits collapses when you scrutinize it. Sure, squeezing payroll gets that last bit of toothpaste out of the tube for companies that hawk look-alike commodities. In innovative companies, however, good people generate...
Time Management with Paula Mathews
Time – Your Most Valuable Asset by Paula Mathews You’ve heard the saying, “A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place.” Corporate America is teaching this as 6-S or Kaizen, but all it means is that you don’t waste time looking for things. Wasting time isn’t as...
Hannah Grimes Center Offers Lean Manufacturing Course
The Hannah Grimes Center is partnering with MEP to offer a course on lean production on January 31, 2017. The methodology, designed to help companies increase their production efficiency by identifying waste and processes to improve consistency, is used globally in...
New Hampshire Kicks Off Small Business Week: Innovators Conference
Innovators Conference with Kelly Ayotte and Dean Kamen May 2, 2016 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Where: NH Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College Cost:Free -- Registration Required The conference will be a unique occasion to listen and connect with inventors, venture...
SBA Announces National Small Business Week
The head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet announced that this year’s National Small Business Week will be held from May 1-7. This year’s theme will be “Dream Big, Start Small.” Contreras-Sweet will start the week in...
Machina Arts: Changing the World through Culture, Art & Creativity
By Melanie Plenda, Originally posted in Business Monadnock Where in the world could a sculptor and a fire dancing economic botanist find a place to call home for a for-profit artist collective and bar? The Monadnock Region, of course. At least that’s what Danya...