Category: Blog

February 11, 2011 B.J. Kharrazi

WSJ reports that three weeks into a medical leave he took “to focus on my health,” Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is staying closely involved in the company’s strategic decisions and product development, according to people familiar with the matter. CLICK TO ENLARGE IMAGE The 55-year-old Mr. Jobs, whose ailment hasn’t been disclosed, has been more »

February 7, 2011 B.J. Kharrazi

According to the Federal Reserve the first increase in credit-card debt since the financial crisis hit helped to boost overall consumer borrowing 3 percent in December, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $2.41 trillion. Americans are putting more money on their credit cards after more than two years of cutting back, a sign that more »

February 6, 2011 B.J. Kharrazi

A while back in the Harvard Business Review, Rosabeth Moss Kanter posted: “Unlike full-blown mergers, in which two really do become one because one company disappears, alliances and partnerships resemble modern marriages: separate careers, individual checkbooks, sometimes different names, but the need to work out the operational overlap around household and offspring.” Moss Kanter lists 15 more »

January 3, 2011 B.J. Kharrazi

www.video-dean.com – video-dean.com Not hardly! Brian Dean and the team at www.Video-Dean.com are experts when it comes to Internet Video Search Engine Marketing and Advertising and they keep up with all the latest changes in Video Search Engine Marketing strategy. Www.Video-Dean.com and Brian Dean will make the appropriate adjustments to your video submission techniques so more »

October 22, 2010 B.J. Kharrazi

The newest small business financing technique – also known by several other names, such as business cash advance, merchant funding, merchant account cash advance, or merchant cash advance – provides retail and service business owners with credit card sales, quick and easy access to working capital financing. Los Angeles Businesses need working capital to function. more »

August 30, 2010 B.J. Kharrazi

And that’s just for the first half of 2010. The smartphone app market continues to grow – in total volume of downloads and sales, the mobile app market is growing fast, beating 2009 numbers in just the first half of 2010. That’s the analysis from Research2Guidance.com, who reported this week that the global smartphone apps more »

August 28, 2010 B.J. Kharrazi

More people are paying down their credit card balances. AP reported that the amount consumers owed on credit cards in the second quarter “dropped to the lowest level in more than 8 years.” According to figures provided by TransUnion, the average combined debt for bank-issued credit cards dropped to just under $4,951 in the three more »

August 8, 2010 B.J. Kharrazi

Matt Cutts works for the Search Quality group in Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues. He is well known in the SEO community for enforcing the Google Webmaster Guidelines and cracking down on abusive SEO practices. Cutts also advises the public on how to get better website visibility in Google. Matt Cutts joined Google more »

August 8, 2010 B.J. Kharrazi

We at the BizEdge Blog, along with a majority of marketing and social media enthusiasts has espoused the virtues of a paradign shift convergence of all things search and social related, especially where small business is concerned – “Facebook beats Google traffic” – “Twitter phenomena undeniable“ – yada yada.  But now a true industry pioneer and visionary more »

August 6, 2010 B.J. Kharrazi

Scott McDonald wrote an intriguing post at Websitemagazine.com that every small business owner needs to consider.  He suggests that its no longer “all about the website”. Well that is not exactly news, except for the highly uninformed, but he raises several great points that provide a quick reference for those struggling to come up to more »