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ROYAL OAK - What are the 4 A’s of Digital Marketing? Melih Oztalay CEO of SmartFinds Marketing in Birmingham explains why all Internet marketers needs to understand these terms in our new Social Media segment he leads monthly on M2 TechCast. Anticipate Change Accept The Changes Adapt to the Changes Adopt the Changes Melih also
ROYAL OAK - Mike Lomonoco Director of Marketing and Communications at Open System Technologies explains why anyone involved in software should attend the meetup of meetups on Wednesday Feb. 8 at OST’s Grand Rapids headquarters. GR DevNight and SoftwareGR team has invited 30 local user groups, meetups, and software events to come share about their
LANSING - Upwards of 1.87 million Social Security numbers, names and wage information for active employees in Michigan could have been accessed by unauthorized users after a software update done in October exposed these confidential records, state officials announced late Friday. What this means is the vulnerability could impact two-fifths of the state’s workforce since
ROYAL OAK - We’re launching two new business segments Monday Feb. 6 on M2 TechCast. Tonya Matthews, PhD, director of the Michigan Science Center, kicks off her STEM-focused monthly segment, while Michael Rogers, communications director at the Small Business Association of Michigan, will talk about SBAM and what products and services it offers businesses. Also
GLENVIEW, IL - Some 85 percent of small business owners are optimistic about the economy in 2017 marking a high water mark since May 2015, based on the SurePayroll Scorecard survey. The highest business optimism last year was 78 percent. What’s more, 66 percent of small business owners expect to be profitable in 2017, with
ROYAL OAK - Tember Shea, director of the Inforum inGAGE, talks about how these training sessions can help women entrepreneurs rapidly grow their businesses. inGAGE provides confidential peer-to-peer founders forum where emerging second-stage entrepreneurs assess their companies’ operations, management, finances, and personnel to examine strengths and challenges. Through this process, participants can identify and formulate
ROYAL OAK - Quade Finnigan a senior consultant at Red Level Networks tells business folks they don’t need to be afraid of cloud computing. Although he was an early skeptic, he’s now a convert to the advantages including the safety and security levels. Finnigan last month published a blog post at Red Level entitled, Don’t
ROYAL OAK - Peter Schwartz from Supported Intelligence tells you how to crush the March Madness office pool with a software program called Smart Bracket. The sequential decision software works well with the 64-game NCAA basketball tournament. It doesn’t give you the perfect bracket, but gives you a better opportunity to win your pool. Last
EAST LANSING - There is no evidence that indicates systematic tampering or hacking of voting machines, or conspiracy or fraud among election officials, resulted in vote tallies altered to favor the Republican candidate in Michigan in 2016, experts at the consulting firm Anderson Economic Group LLC reported this week. Anderson Economic Group also reported there
ANN ARBOR - Consumers expressed a higher level of confidence in January than at any other time in the last dozen years. The post-election surge in confidence was driven by a more optimistic outlook for the economy and job growth during the year ahead as well as more favorable economic prospects over the next five
