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The People and Companies Heating Up Marketing and Advertising in Chicago
Recently we announced the 150 nominees for 50 on Fire, Chicago Inno's winter awards event. The nominees represent the people and ...
CityTrader Courts Average Retail Traders
OptionsCity Software, a small Chicago-based financial technology firm, has provided professional futures and options traders and market ...
Vidku is the Video Messenger App for Everyone
Pull out your phone and take a look at your apps. How many of them are used to communicate with other people in some form? You’ve got ...
4 Risk Management Must-Haves for Independent Contractors
In the past five years, the independent workforce grew faster than the overall economy, according to MBO Partners’ 2015 State of ...
7 Top Causes of (and Cures for) Benefits StinkFace
Right around open enrollment season, many of the HR teams you deal with every day will start to notice that the normally cheerful ...
3 Things I Always Do before the Year’s End
If you're like me, you spent the first three quarters of 2015 plugging away at building your business. But now we have both feet solidly ...
Three Tips to Improve Open Enrollment Communications
With the start of the current week and for the next two months or so, millions of employees nationwide will once again face the often ...
For Sellers Of Vintage Guitars, An Eternal Struggle Between Passion and Profit
Over the course of a 40-year career, Stan Jay sold a lot of vintage guitars to a lot of folks. You’ve probably heard of some of them: ...
No-Code Internet of Things Development Platform
While there’s certainly been no shortage of interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), most real world applications of it have largely ...
5 Great New Apps for Your Phone
We love sharing videos on Snapchat, but sometimes it’s a bummer when you see or capture an amazing Snap, and then it’s gone forever. If ...
Meet The Former Pentagon Officer Who’s Disrupting Cable TV
Dear Comcast, Verizon, Dish Network et. al, the cord-cutters are coming for you. Who are they? To begin: cord-cutting is a term that ...
5 Tips for More Engaging Open Enrollment Messaging
Do your clients ever tell you they feel stuck in a rut when it comes to getting the word out about open enrollment? Want to be the hero ...
How to Choose the Best Business Structure for You
Limited liability company or sole proprietorship? Partnership or corporation? Unfortunately, picking a business structure isn't a one-...
Is it Finally Time for Easy IoT?
Hey you guys… IoT is hard, you guys. Can you, like, help or something? (Editor’s note: if you didn’t read that like this, you have ...
5 Ways to Invest in Art and Collectibles
The world of Wall Street, so expert at turning logic on its head, even boasts the capability of inverting the age-old question, "But is ...