Is California’s Retirement Plan Mandate one more costly regulation small business owners need to worry about? Well yes, unless your employees are also…

While it does produce high levels of efficiency, Agile Management’s over-reliance on statistical data to manage people becomes problematic for the people being managed. It is a mistake to apply it to other fields outside of software development.

The entire gig workforce has grown under the pandemic. As such it is now is a growing percentage of the entire economy. Perhaps most importantly, it is becoming a respectable and accepted type of occupation, and no longer a fringe activity.

Starting a business from scratch takes a website, a quick selling product, and of course customers, right? Not always. What if there was a way to start a business without having all those things up front?

Designating gig businesses to the umbrella category of small businesses does them a tremendous disservice. Their needs are too different and this leaves them in obscurity in the shadow of all the much larger “small” businesses.

We can’t know how many skilled and experienced people will stay in the gig economy once the current crisis subsides. However, there is no denying that the basic need of people to earn a living will drive many people there until it does.

One of our readers let us know that she earns extra income on the side by selling her photos. We were intrigued and so we inquired how easy this is. It turns out it is actually not too hard. The key is in having enough photos to sell.