Friday Five: 5 Social Media Tips for Entrepreneurs

Patrick Houston is a seasoned tech media veteran. He wrote for and served as a bureau chief at Businessweek before leading Yahoo’s tech channel – and later became the editor-in-chief of CNET, the nation’s most widely read tech news platform. Now, Patrick is trying his hand at entrepreneurship with CloudBase3.com. The site – an offshoot [...]

Sunwarrior is an international nutrition supplement supplier for large chains such as Whole Foods, The Vitamin Shoppe and Health Smart. The company created a protein-based supplement that is organic, dairy-, soy-, genetically modified organism- and allergen-free. While the company provided the market with a popular niche product, they were losing business because of their out-of-date [...]

Dessange is an internationally acclaimed franchisor with over 1000 salons, close to 200 beauty institutes, and eight training centers in 45 countries. The company’s headquarters in the United States are located in Massachusetts, but its salons exist all over the country. So when the chance came to try an internet phone solution, Dessange jumped at [...]

DCIT develops point-of-sale and inventory-control software for jewelry retailers. The company’s MySQL-based software is designed to be reliable, scalable and easy to use – so it’s little wonder DCIT turned to RingCentral for business phone service. DCIT is heavily reliant on its phone system, company founder Raffi Minassian told us. DCIT sells its products through [...]

Ever tried to find an apartment? It’s not a fun process. One RingCentral customer, Apartment Hunters, helps make the apartment-discovery process a little less painful – for people in its central Florida operating area, at least. The firm’s service is completely free to use. (Its revenue comes from the apartment communities with which it collaborates.) [...]

Hagaman Insurance Group, a life, health and dental insurance brokerage, is located just off the Jersey Shore in the township of Toms River. The town, with its bucolic central business district and miles of water frontage, is normally quiet. But when Hurricane Sandy struck in the fall of 2012, Toms River was anything but peaceful. [...]

Most RingCentral customers rely on their phone systems to contact customers, vendors and partners – standard business use cases. But there are some in the RingCentral-verse who have much more innovative ways of making the most of their RingCentral service. RingCentral Superfan Owen McGab Enaohwo is one of the latter. Owen and his business partners [...]

Maureen Jackson, the controller for Applebee’s franchisor Gator Apple, was having a tough time reconciling all the phone bills she received each month. Gator Apple operates 41 Applebee’s restaurants in Georgia and Florida, and it had a unique phone system at each location. That meant 41 different phone bills, in different amounts, with due dates [...]

Bill Horton isn’t your average insurance broker. He was an amateur drag racer for more than two decades – and he turned that passion into a successful line of business. Bill was working for a large insurance brokerage when he began selling race-car insurance. Bill met enough interested people at drag events to start offering [...]

Most of our Superfans are companies. Some, like BullyingCanada, are nonprofits. And a handful – including the North Carolina Chiropractic Association – are professional organizations. What’s unique about the NCCA is its stated mission to serve all North Carolinians by improving the way chiropractic medicine is practiced. The association – North Carolina’s only professional group [...]