How many times have you held your tongue in the presence of a bad idea? We’ve all been there: Your team’s in a strategy meeting, there’s one sole suggestion on the table, and everyone nods in agreement, even if the idea is obviously sub-par—or flat-out wrong. No one wants to question the originator of the plan […]

Hiring employees is one of the most effective to grow a small business—a larger staff will enable you to serve more customers, serve all customers better, and potentially expand into new product lines and markets. But hiring can also be difficult, especially for small business owners who are just starting out and may not have […]

Listen To Music Without Headphones With the brilliance of tiny clip-on sound systems we can put on our headphones and be at the Metropolitan Opera or front row at a David Bowie concert almost anywhere we are. The joy of listening to music has kept the cadence of my runs and kept me going when […]

Imagine it’s 1966, and you’re Bob Dylan. You’re 25, and you’ve already been called the voice of your generation. The record you released the previous year, Highway 61 Revisited, hit number three on the US chart, and your brand new work, the double album Blonde on Blonde, was already spoken of in terms usually reserved for religion: […]

As a trademark attorney, I’ve received my fair share of cries for help from business owners who filed applications through trademark filing services to reduce their startup costs. LegalZoom and Trademarkia are two well-known companies in the industry.  They sound like a great deal.  The companies charge a fraction of what an attorney would cost.  […]

For our recent post on the importance of maintaining a business blog, we reached out to our members for some tips. We got a lot of great advice, especially from Mention’s Content and Public Relations manager Shannon Byrne. Her advice is meant for blogging, sure, but it’s so good that it can apply to the […]

It’s second nature for businesses to have a blog these days, but businesses often have a very loose definition of the term. Surely you’ve seen the abandoned ones, with posts dating back two years promising updates coming soon. Maybe the business is dead or maybe their social media has gravitated towards Twitter and Instagram. While […]

Many startup offices are decorated with ping-pong tables, video games, comp snacks, and more, but are these perks enough to let employees know that their value within the company is appreciated? Our founders at AdBoom Group, Inc. knew that there was much more to all those fun activities. They wanted the employees to feel a […]