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Why Everyone Wants Small Businesses as Customers

Small Business Labs

.   This fact was highlighted in a letter sent to the management team of Office Depot by the Hedge Fund Starboard.  They recently bought 13% of Office Depot's stock and are pushing the company to restructure. So even the Hedge Fund/Corporate raider crowd thinks you should target small businesses.

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Disruptive Innovation and Small Business Lending

Small Business Labs

We contributed an article to Banking.com discussing how non-traditional small business lenders - including folks like Wal-Mart, Office Depot, Google and others - are starting to provide small business credit services.    We hope we're right on this.   

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Small Business world News Round-up - 2009/10/27

The Small Business Blog

Small Business world News Round-up – 2009/10/27 by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 27, 2009 Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world. — ST. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Take Office Depot’s Pledge For Better Office Organization In 2010

Small Business CEO

Yesterday was National Clean Up Your Desk Day and in support, Office Depot has announced their Take Back Your Desk Pledge campaign. Office Depot conducted a recent survey of 1,023 polled consumers who currently work in an office environment and have a desk or workspace of their own.

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The Benefits of Making Eco Friendly Improvements to Your Home Office

Eco-Office Gals

From the eco-friendly angle, the good news is that there are a lot of websites that sell recycled office supplies including EcoGreenOffice.com, RecycledOfficeProducts.com and GreenLinePaper.com. You can also go to local stores like Staples and Office Depot for items that are made from reusable materials. photo by: mrbill.

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How to Organize Business Cards & Networking Conversations - Interview & Giveaway @ContactKeeper

Stephanie LH Calahan

When you attend tradeshows or networking meetings, do you later experience the business card pile up? Do you have great conversations and then get back to your office and either forget action steps or details from the conversation? No more missed follow-ups because you forgot the conversation! The time is now!

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Shared Information for Customer.

Service Untitled

Odland said that if everyone at Office Depot knew as much as he did (in terms of cause and effects, how actions fit in with the rest of the company, etc.), the company would be much more cohesive and efficient.