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This Graduate Study Is For The Birds

I am finishing up my master’s degree in ornithology. That’s the study of birds in case you didn’t know or the title didn’t clue you in. The last step in this long process is to come up with and complete a graduate study. Mine is to determine weather feather structure has changed over the last [...]

Hiring In vs. Hiring Out

There are some jobs that you’ll need to have done which require you to hire someone to complete them. You will have to make the decision whether to hire someone in-house to do the work or to hire the services of a company that does the work that you need.
For example, let’s say that you [...]

Doing Our Due Diligence

One of the things that I have noticed over the years is that many of the businesses that don’t succeed didn’t do their research before opening shop.  I must admit that I am guilty for doing it myself, and one of my first businesses failed because I failed to do my research before opening my [...]

My town needs EZ-Screen

The city council where I live recently passed rulings that will allow for a private firm to come in and remove a visual eye sore that’s been a part of the town for over 80 years. You see, this entire area has a history of being a mining center. For a lot of years, copper [...]

Investigating Document Storage Solutions

As part of an assignment for my business class, I’m researching new and improved ways for companies to handle their document storage. When I started this project, I really had no idea how advanced online document storage has become.  While there will always be the need for traditional filing cabinets and storage boxes for some [...]