If your business is not using data analytics to guide decisions and give effective insights, there are some questions you should be asking. Even if you think data analytics isn’t that important or if it seems daunting, chances are you need to take another look. There are several tell-tale signs that indicate a need for…
Author: Brian
Can You Give Yourself a Free Education Online?
Knowledge is power – but does it all need to come from a traditional brick and mortar university? Not these days – especially if an expensive degree doesn’t guarantee you a job in the workforce. How expensive is college in relation to everything else in our lives? Far beyond the costs of inflation. On average,…
Home Title Theft: How to Protect Your Property
Owning your home title should be enough to prove that you own your home, but with the increase in home title fraud, that isn’t always the case. From 2015 to 2019, real estate and rental fraud grew at 2.6x the rate of credit card fraud, and reported losses are now 2x as much as credit…
Finding the Hidden Threat
It seems like you can’t skim through the news headlines these days without hearing about the latest data breach, ransomware, DDOS attack or some other kind of cyber attack. Rather than just the same old doom and gloom, it would be good to hear more about what we could do in order to be proactive…
COVID Vaccine Facts: Stop Misinformation
As they say, truth is stranger than fiction. But, we shouldn’t let fictitious untruths cloud our judgement, especially when it comes to life and death decisions such as getting the COVID vaccine. While from the outset, a COVID vaccine hesitant person might look the same as a person who is part of the anti-vaccination movement,…
Eminent Domain: Your Property Isn’t Really Yours
Did you know that owning the deed to your house or property doesn’t fully entitle you to complete ownership? You may be the one paying the mortgage, but the truth is that the US government still has the right to come and take your property at any time based on something called eminent domain. From…
Understanding The GameStop Short Squeeze
What happens when memes, regular people, and Redditors all join in for a battle for Wall Street against the old school hedge fund mainstays? A very interesting run up of stocks that nobody saw coming, that’s what. The global pandemic brought about some unprecedented changes to retail shopping. One retail chain that was in this…
Emotional Intelligence in Business: the Key to Career Success
In today’s professional sphere, technical knowledge is only half the battle. The bulk of a successful employee’s profile comes from emotional intelligence, or EQ. Coined in 1990, EQ leads people to have stronger interpersonal relationships, improved leadership abilities, and greater job satisfaction. 90% of high performing employees exhibit high EQ. What skills fall under the…
Modernizing the Commercial Real Estate Lending Market
The commercial real estate lending market has been operating in an old school model for far too long. It is time for a paradigm shift. Banking tech is behind the times – so much that 43% of banks were still using COBOL in 2019. This is a programming language that pre-dates the internet. It is…
How to Transform Company Culture
A company is more than just a vehicle for profit. Every company on the market represents a unique set of attitudes, ideals, and attributes. When an employee acts on behalf of the company, they reinforce these qualities in the minds of insiders and outsiders alike. The qualities that make a company personal and unique are…