James O'Brien

For small-business owners in the U.S., April brings with it a certain degree of extra anxiety and stress. The shifting tax landscape — from deductions to ever-changing rules — is seldom at rest and the chances to miss opportunities are many. Zogby Analytics recently polled 400 U.S.-based accountants and found the [...]

When we talk about sales we often start the conversation in some fairly familiar ways — we discuss lead generation, we move along to mid-funnel cultivation, and all this usually ends up as a discussion about sales conversion strategies and success rates.

What about response time, however?

At some point, you might want to sell the business you've grown and nurtured. Before you take the big step, ask yourself these 5 questions....

Got mobile-security sieves within your workforce? Mobile devices are ubiquitous among every business, every staff, in almost every situation. That can mean a happier, more connected company of employees, but it also means a nexus o...

Recently, we came out with our omnibus...

Real estate has traditionally been a game won or lost based on old-fashioned networking and shoe-leather style hard work — deeply dependent on timing, detecting trends and more than a little bit of luck.

It may not be that way for much longer, however. Big data is changing the way real-estate professionals, buyers, sellers — and even banks — think about transactions involving property.

What does it take to make air travel as safe as possible without compromising privacy and our rights? Several innovators...

With a longstanding legacy of success at online marketing to live up to, travel is working with new technology and newly changing paradigms in the form of programmatic media buying.

Last week we launched our latest Skift Trends Report “Evolving Strategies in Travel Ad Tech …...

... we heard a lot from politicians about closed monuments and parks, and about the outrage prompted when those resources weren’t available. But what really happened on the ground? What about the business owners that felt the shutdown’s impact?

Earlier this week, we released our new seminal report,...