Your Business and Your Life
Memphis area gas prices hit $3.43 a gallon — and they’ll keep climbing
LOS ANGELES — U.S. motorists have seen the national average for regular gasoline rise above $3.50 a gallon in just three different years, but it has never happened this early.
The average price for a gallon of gas was $3.51 Tuesday, up 12 cents from a month earlier, reported the online fuel price monitor of insurer AAA. The early price shocker is likely a sign that pain at the pump will rise to some of the highest levels ever this year.
In the Memphis area, the price of unleaded regular averaged $3.43 per gallon on Tuesday, up 6 cents in just one week, AAA reported. The peak, $3.90 per gallon, was reached in Memphis on July 17, 2008.
“This definitely sets the stage, potentially, for much higher prices later this year,” said Brian Milne, refined-fuels editor for Telvent DTN, a commodity information services firm. “There’s a chance that the U.S. average tops $4 a gallon by June, with some parts of the country approaching $5 a gallon.”
Even in 2008, the year that average gasoline prices hit records above $4 nationally, the U.S.
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Q&A with Ali Shirnia, VP and GM of Roambi EMEA
CBR catches up with the EMEA boss of data visualisation company Roambi to talk about Apple, BI, and data quality
Can we get a bit of background on the company?Our CEO Santiago Becerra created the Xcelsius software, which was a great success. He sold it to BusinessObjects, which was later sold to SAP. That was the end of the adventure, around 2007/2008. Then Apple announced the iPhone. He got one of the first ones and thought: “Oh my goodness.” He saw the potential of the devices and started building the software right there.
In 2010 we went to the market with our software and since then have got 8 of the top ten pharmaceutical companies as customers, along with financial institutions and carriers. The traction has all been driven by iPad adoption in the enterprise. But we’re not exclusively on Apple, we run on BlackBerry as well.
What we do is really simple. Our proposition to the customer is: “Don’t touch the back-end.” You don’t need to, whatever back-end you have and have spent millions on, the issue you have is consumption of the reports. They are ugly, they are tabular, you cannot see them and distribute them to enough users.
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Peer engagement boosts confidence and optimism of SMB owners, according to recent survey
In a recent survey by The Alternative Board (TAB), an organization that provides advisory boards and coaching for business owners, more than 70% of non-TAB members believe they could increase profitability by 10% or more through peer engagement and advisory board participation.
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Building a Business is Worth the Time
Make no mistake. Creating your own small business is hard work. But as youll see, there are rewards. Here are some tips, tools and trends to think about while taking the time you need to build your small business.
Small Biz Success
It takes time to build a business! Rachel Strella can attest to that. Over the last 18 months, she admits to spending many 60 hour days building her social media marketing firm based in Camp Hill, PA, but she often finds that people still ask her, What do you do all day?
Living the dream after layoffs. Some people might think of a layoff as the ultimate bad news, but for Carolyn Higgins it was the first step on the path to helping small businesses think and market the way larger companies do. What can Carolyn teach you about marketing your business today?
Tips & Trends
Even celebrities want to be entrepreneurs. Nowadays becoming a small business owner is so popular, even the stars want to get into the act. Take Jessica Alba, star of TVs Dark Angel and The Fantastic Four movies, who recently announced a new e-commerce biz selling eco-friendly products. <
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Using an Agency to Hire Employees
Image by senatorchriscoons at Flickr
Businesses are turning to staffing agencies to help find employees to fill positions. Whether they need multiple seasonal employees or have temp-to-hire positions available, companies don’t always have the time to collect resumes, interview potential employees and make a hiring decision.
This is why they turn to Adecco USA recruitment agency for help. Adecco USA will help make the hiring process go much smoother for you. Here is information on using an agency to hire employees.
Get in Contact with the Agency
Contact Adecco USA recruitment agency to get started. You will most likely meet with them in person to discuss the positions you’re looking to hire, what the requirements are and what type of employees you want to hire. In
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