"Spying on your ecommerce competition can help with product pricing and marketing strategy. The first step is to identify all competitors no matter how large or small. Once you’ve compiled a list, start collecting and analyzing the data."
How to Prove Your Worth During a Restructuring
Emily Disston (photo, left) fields a question on the topic at TheMuse.com.
How Small Startups Can Profit from a Huge Competitor’s Woes
"With the right mix of speed, timing and guts, smart founders can profit hugely from their much, much, much larger rivals' misfortune."
Jeff Bezos Is Now Making an Astonishing $230,000 Every Minute
"Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos started 2018 as the world's richest man—and his net worth has positively skyrocketed so far this year."
Meet the Sensors That Could Be Watching You While You Work
"Rebecca Greenfield covers the workplace for Bloomberg. Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal [photo, left] spoke with Greenfield about her recent piece on office sensors and why privacy at work is so elusive. Below is an edited transcript of their conversation."
11 Facts about Women-Run Businesses That Prove the Future Is Female
". . . Here are 11 encouraging signs that the future — of business, anyway — really is female."
Best Buy Is Punishing Customers Who Return Too Many Items
"Best Buy, Home Depot, Victoria's Secret, and a host of other retailers are discreetly tracking how often shoppers return purchases and, in some cases, punishing people who are suspected of abusing their return policies."
Amazon Has Replaced Google as the Best Place to Work in the US
"Amazon has knocked Google off the top spot as the best place to work in the world, according to LinkedIn."
The Six Pitfalls of Leadership
"The pitfalls of leadership spring from within," warns Dan Rockwell (photo, left) in a post at his blog.
"Dangers that emerge from within are more perilous than dangers that attack from without."
Unleash Millennials with Learning
According to Julia Stiglitz (photo, left), "Members of this age group, who typically change jobs at least four times in their first decade out of college, need and want work-based training and development. But employers often question the return on the investment because of this high turnover. So how do you develop a valuable system for both you and your employees?"
"The answer requires a different outlook on both millennials and learning. Here are a few tips to maximize both their and our company’s success."