Monthly Archives: January 2023

‘Inappropriate and Insensitive’: Tech CEO Apologizes After Being Slammed For ‘Tone Deaf’ Layoff Email Quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Informing employees about mass layoffs is most likely not an easy task for CEOs and company heads, but doing so in a tone-deaf way — and then being blasted on the internet for doing so — is probably the least ideal way to do it. Getty ImagesPagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada Cloud computing company PagerDuty is…

The Basics of Making Money in Franchising

The following excerpt is from franchise expert Mark Siebert’s book The Franchisee Handbook. Buy it now. For as long as you can remember, you’ve dreamed of business ownership. After narrowing down your list of potential franchise concepts, you’re finally ready to transition from employee to boss. oatawa | Shutterstock Before you make the jump, spend…

Are You Hesitant to Use AR Technology? Here’s Why You Need to Jump on It Now.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In the digital world, there are many things that are successful right now, but literally 3-5-10 years from now, we will no longer be able to imagine our lives without them. As the founder and CEO of a technology company, I would like to talk today about…

Get the Most Out of Your Gaming with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

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Amy Robach, T.J. Holmes Officially Leaving ABC News: ‘This Has Been a Distraction For So Many of Us’

Last month, ABC’s Good Morning America was thrown into disarray when it was revealed via paparazzi photos that longtime co-anchors Amy Robach and TJ Holmes were involved in a personal relationship — despite the on-air colleagues being married to other people. Getty Images The co-hosts, who anchored GMA3, an afternoon spinoff of the network’s popular…

3 Recession-Proof Strategies for Small Business Owners

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve probably read the dreary forecasts from JPMorgan, Citi and Goldman Sachs, which all agree that 2023 will be a rough year for the economy, perhaps even kicking off a “mild recession.” But try as they might with their recession…

Is ‘Green Hydrogen’ the Future? This Minnesota Gas Utility Thinks So.

A Minnesota gas utility says it is successfully blending “green” hydrogen into its natural gas pipeline system in one of the first such tests in the country. Since last spring, CenterPoint Energy customers near downtown Minneapolis have been burning a bit of hydrogen alongside the usual mix of methane gas in their stoves and furnaces.…

Don’t Slash Your Marketing Budget to Shreds in a Recession — Use These 3 Cost-Cutting Measures Instead.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Not since Sam and Diane, Rachel and Ross or Jim and Pam has there been this much “will it or won’t it” fuss. I’m talking about the recession, of course. Even The Wall Street Journal isn’t quite sure whether we’re in it, we’re heading toward it or…

A Sleep Company Wants to Pay You to Eat Cheese Late at Night. Dream Job or Nightmare?

Looking for a gouda night’s sleep? Евгения Матвеец | Getty Images Sleep Junkie, a sleep research company affiliated with mattress company Amerisleep, has a new study in the works that will have late-night snackers drooling — they want to pay people to eat cheese before going to bed. “[W]e wanted to test out one of…

How Much Should You Pay Other People To Take Work Off Your Plate? Here’s the Formula

When is it time to hire an assistant? To build out a team? To stop doing so many things yourself, and start paying other people to do them — because, in theory, spending money on them will help you make even more money? It’s a question that Dan Martell gets all the time. He’s the…