Earlier this week we talked about the 5 Lies of Social Media.  This is a rebuttal to that post by Greg Lieber.  My responses to Greg are in italic. Earlier this week, Mikal Belicove published a well-written but misguided article entitled “Five Lies About Social Media Marketing.” While several of his suggestions may be useful for [...]

Unless you’re independently wealthy, entrepreneurs usually have to hit the banking and investor circuits in search of loans and other startup funds. It can be a tough task, especially when the credit markets freeze up like they have during the recession. “Many investors cannot predict when the economy will return to its go-go growth days, [...]

High swipe fees have been the bane of merchants in recent years, as costs soared. We got swipe-fee relief on credit cards earlier this year, but debit-card fees remained high. Now, the Federal Reserve has proposed major cuts in debit swipe fees — up to 90 percent. Banks are howling and will lobby hard for [...]