by Ann Marie | Thoughts on Thriving
If you are having trouble recruiting qualified staff in Northern Virginia, you are not alone. This place is on fire. Virginia’s unemployment rate for September (2.7%) is the lowest it’s been in 18 years, the Governor’s office reported. The state also tied with...
by Ann Marie | Coffee Break
One of the best descriptions of small business owners came from a speaker at an expo in DC: “People who work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week for someone else.” Even if you’re working a mere 50 hours, that doesn’t leave you much time for reading but...
by Ann Marie | Coffee Break
If you’ve been in business for even just a month or two, you have probably run across marketing workshops or articles that talk about building your brand. And if you rolled your eyes at any of this, I get it. It sounds superficial, doesn’t it? Or for folks like me, it...
by Ann Marie | Coffee Break
Your neck and back ache from hunching over your desk. Your eyes burn from staring at a monitor. You don’t want to stop because the clock is not your friend today. Yet stopping can, in fact, make the clock your friend. Taking a break on the busiest of days (and, of...
by Ann Marie | Coffee Break
Facebook’s recent announcement about a change in algorithms could spell trouble for organizations relying on Facebook to share content. Sheela Namikavi writes in Nonprofit Quarterly, “What this means is that users will see a decrease in exposure to public content from...
by Ann Marie | Uncategorized
When the City of Alexandria presented its plan to implement a registry of short-term rentals that will facilitate collection of taxes on those rentals, it was clear that some residents were more concerned about zoning than taxes. In one case, ticked off may be more...