Few pieces of legislation have a more hopeful name than the Hire Act, the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act that was that was signed into law in March. And whatever a person's opinions about whether it will have its intended effect or not, it's a complicated law that put some extra work on the nation's payroll service and software providers.

It astounds me how much marketing continues to change.  At conferences that I recently attended, I was amazed at examples of how many companies have embraced inbound marketing to attract prospects. With the advent of social media and continued advancements in technology, the pendulum continues to swing away from the seller into the hands of the buyer.

For thousands of years, scientists and religious leaders introduced, modified, and later abandoned hundreds of different calendaring models. People take calendaring very seriously. Wars have been fought over the appropriate association of time and measure. There are a few calendars that are still actively referred to in today’s society; such as the astrological, lunar, Gregorian, Chinese, Balinese, Islamic or Jewish.  All these calendars have three things in common, a start date, a means of measuring time in various and cumulative units, and an end date. The units of time may correspond to earthly occurrences, like seasons or astronomical changes. Or they may be very arbitrary based on a governmental or religious edict. Conflict over calendars continues even today. There is one fringe group that seems to still struggle with defining their calendar; the accounting profession.  I believe it is the profession’s undefined calendar that often gets in the way of taking on new initiatives and advancing toward their goals at the same rate as other businesses.  Here’s why . . . Read more...