Is Your Product’s Packaging Holding Your Company Back? Good product packaging can be the difference between making a new lifelong customer and missing a sale. It’s not uncommon for food companies to cite a change in packaging as the reason for increased business....
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Play is Serious Business! How Businesses & Organizations Can Benefit from the Arts
Originally Posted at Fear of Singing ... Many businesses — including Google, GE, Intel, Toms of Maine, as well as the U.S. Navy — have discovered that bringing creative arts into the workplace is more than a fun distraction or office party exercise. Art-making — be it...

5 Lessons for Successful Entrepreneurs from Hamdi Ulukaya
Originally published at benhrobertson.com Entrepreneurs must have passion and courage to start a new business -- leaving the safe way and doing what it takes to make something new is not easy. But as companies grow, the needs of the business change and when it comes...
Live Free & Start!
New Hampshire, the 5th best state for entrepreneurs to start a business, is making a serious push to recruit and cultivate tech startups. The Live Free and Start initiative recently launched a dynamic new website, www.LiveFreeandStart.com, implemented the nation’s...
Why We Procrastinate and What We Can Do About it
I’m a serious, lifelong, card-carrying procrastinator. But here it is 2 days before the...
Power of High Expectations
Low expectations are all around us and successful leaders know it. They also know it is their job to raise expectations and help people achieve more in their lives. Last week I listened to a powerful podcast on This American Life about Daniel Kish, a visually-impaired...
Show Off That You’re Locally Owned: Join Monadnock Buy Local Today!
Locally owned businesses contribute so much to our local economy and community — make sure everyone knows that you’re part of this movement and join Monadnock Buy Local today. What is Monadnock Buy Local? We are a network of locally owned businesses, nonprofits and...
THANK YOU to our CONNECT 2014 Event LEAD SPONSOR – Catlin + Petrovick Architects, PC
Catlin + Petrovick Architects, PC, an architecture firm located in Keene is the LEAD SPONSOR of this year’s CONNECT 2014. CONNECT is Hannah Grimes’ annual event celebrating the connections between business, the local economy and our community. Thank you Mike + John!!...
Beeze Tees Owner, Tim Pipp, Named Entrepreneur of the Year
The Hannah Grimes Center announced that Tim Pipp, founder and owner of Beeze Tees Screen Printing, has been named Entrepreneur of the Year for the Monadnock Region. Pipp will be presented with the Entrepreneur of the Year award and recognized at Hannah Grimes'...
Bonafide Volunteer: When is a Volunteer Not an Employee???
Sometimes volunteers are just volunteers–but sometimes they are really employees. Do you know if your volunteers are truly volunteers? In general, a volunteer is an individual who performs hours of service for a public or private agency for civic, charitable, or...