Land of Opportunity

This weeks Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Beyond the Brand. The CotC is a weekly roundup of some of the best business and economics blogging during the past week or so. (more…)

B. Janell Grenier at Benefitsblog posts news at Faegre.com of a new HR requirement for all small businesses with employees. All employers, regardless of size, have to comply with this requirement. (more…)

Reuters is reporting that McDonald’s is actively testing the use of mid-western call centers for drive through orders. Apparently, there have been some long standing issues of order accuracy with the current system of having local teens with headsets enter the orders from cars into the fast-food chains computer system. While I seldom eat at any McDonald’s, I can vouch for similar problems at the walk up counter at my local Burger King.

The plan is to have professionally trained call center employees take your order and (more…)

Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users has a wonderful post on the importance of one maverick within a company.

Kathy contends, while CEO’s often provide lip-service to the need for folks to think outside the box, that during that previous economic downturn it was the so called mavericks and lone wolves that were let go. Kathy points out: (more…)

Matthew Lesko’s small business grants commercial appears on Little Rock cable with regular frequency. A recent visitor to the Land of Opportunity had been searching on Google for “Arkansas small business grants.” Backtracking from my statistics, I discovered a link to “Matthew Lesko Arkansas State Small Business Grants,” just below the link to the Land of Opportunity. Mr Lesko’s link and corresponding page were laced with keywords like: Free Business Government Grants, Free Government Business Money, and Woman Business Grants.

As Mr. Lesko claims there are 60 grants available within Arkansas, I had the idea for weekly series of posts on grants. This week we present the first two grants programs for child care businesses: (more…)

Wesley Brown at the Arkansas News Bureau wrote an interesting article on a trend that has been taking place this past decade. It seems the Arkansas delta is losing workers. (more…)