While all of us at ChooseWhat take pride in being healthy (we’ve taken part in 5K races together and our fridge is always stocked with low-fat yogurts and fruit), we’re not saints. It is always hard to remain stringent in your diet, and it’s only harder if your office is jam-packed with chips and candy. ChooseWhat’s Project Management Associate Nick Middleton advocates promoting your employees’ health by providing them with healthy snacks. But, how do you overcome the slippery (and salty) slope of office snacking? Read below.

Websites are game-changers.  A great website can help you as an individual and/or your business stand out, as well as drive a lot of traffic to key products, services, deals or information.  You know your options:  you could have your developers create your site in-house or outsource it to a design firm.  While those are both viable options, today I advise you to do neither.  Instead, try creating a site using Wordpress and a cpanel hosting service to get the best value website you can create in one day. 

Last week Vertical Response unleashed new features and enhancements to their email marketing software.

Improvements include:

We’ve all been in them--meetings that seem to drag on forever and end less productive than when they began. As a business owner, you don’t want your employees to dread having meetings with you. So how can you make sure your meetings run smoothly and productively? Read below.

Co-founder of ChooseWhat.com Gaines Kilpatrick knows a thing or two about leasing office space.  As Director of Brokerage for MetroNational in Houston, he managed the leasing of a 1 million+ square foot portfolio of office space.  He also has experience leasing office space at every stage of our development, from the executive suite level to a 3,500 square-foot office space with a custom build out.  In today's post, he shares some helpful tips for business owners looking for a new office. 

ChooseWhat’s Web Development Associate, April Coburn, had the distinct task of figuring out how to back up our server and all of its data. While she completed this daunting assignment and found solutions that meet our business needs, she says that many businesses don’t necessarily see the importance at backing up their systems.

This week email marketing software provider MailChimp announced the launch of version 5.2. The latest version of its email marketing service will include some new social features and enhancements to existing features.

Whether it’s taking photographs or decorating cakes, you're good at something.  More importantly, you love doing it.  And every now and then you stop and think, “Hey, I could do this for a living.  I could start a business.”  People think about starting their own businesses all the time, and some people actually do.  Some take the plunge and wind up tremendously successful, but other people—the majority, in fact—fail.  You’ve heard the statistics and are afraid.  Very, very afraid.  But you’re not going

Online fax provider MetroFax announced last week the expanded availability of local fax numbers for customers in 18 states, and it introduced local numbers in cities in 24 states and Puerto Rico. Now customers in 48 States, from Maine to California, and Puerto Rico, can use a local fax number for their businesses.

According to the Small Business Administration half the number of small businesses won’t survive more than five years. In order to explain why some businesses fail and some flourish, the Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute conducted a study to figure out what traits make a successful business owner. Their research came up with six key traits that every business owner must possess, but I’m going to add a couple more. Do you think you have what it takes to run a profitable small business? Read on to find out.