With more than 165 years of generational farming and distilling expertise, Frey Ranch Distillery blends its rich history with modern techniques to produce world-class whiskey products. Located in the heart of the Lake Tahoe Watershed, Frey Ranch sources its water from the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District. The flow from the Carson and Truckee River provides life to the farm as the water gates open.
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Working from home — at least part of the time — increasingly is becoming routine at companies in Reno and Sparks.
Eight months after employers scrambled when pandemic-related restrictions closed most traditional offices for several weeks, executives say they’ve learned learn to navigate the new-look workplace and don’t expect to see a day when everyone works at the office every day.
What exactly is cash flow? It is the movement of funds in and out of your company. Ultimately, cash flow is the lifeline of any small business.
We asked 11 small business professionals to give us their best tips and tricks on how to effectively manage cash flow.
A program to help technology entrepreneurs earn federal grant funding to support the early-stage development of their businesses or innovations is being expanded statewide with the support of the State of Nevada Knowledge Fund and GOED.
Sierra Accelerator for Growth & Entrepreneurship (SAGE) was successfully launched by the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019 and now, through a partnership developed with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), it is being expanded to include a new SAGE South program.
Should I change my event to a virtual one? Should I hire a salesperson? NCET’s panel of business and technology experts answer your questions in our monthly column.
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Peter Williamson has been re-elected to the board of directors of NCET, a member-supported non-profit that produces educational and networking events to help people explore businesses and technology. He has served eight years on the NCET board and is the longest-serving volunteer director of the organization. Williamson, re-elected as vice president of Tech Wednesdays, has worked for 15 years as an ActionCOACH business coach in Reno. He is also a Certified Exit Planner (CExP) with the Business Exit Institute, helping business owners plan their exit from their businesses.
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Each previous article in this series provided the groundwork for this MONEY conversation. And, yes…that’s exactly what financial projections are!
Once you’ve created your general business plan, you can then start attaching dollars to your planning decisions. We’d like to have a solid understanding of our business plan so that we can estimate startup costs, know how to project (budget) the revenues associated with the expenses of running the business, and know how much money we’ll need to start the business.
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While everything about 2020 has shifted, the importance of showing gratitude has not changed as we approach the holidays. In fact, companies lucky enough to ride out the storms of COVID-19 are realizing their clients and their team members deserve care and gratitude even more so than in years past.
And while it can certainly be daunting trying to find ways to plan for everyone your company needs to recognize, there’s a blend of gift giving classics and new, unique offerings guaranteed to bring about smiles at your upcoming virtual holiday party.
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Reflecting on February and March of this year, at the outset of the pandemic, countless businesses great and small paused their existing marketing campaigns. Whether these campaigns were promoting upcoming events, new business launches, or semi-annual sales, many became virtually irrelevant and, in some cases borderline insensitive almost instantaneously. Marketing teams across the country and seemingly, the world sat down to analyze their present strategies on a granular level. There was a historical, widespread urgency to determine which, if any, sales pursuits were essential and/or ethical enough to warrant advertising spends and solicitations during a time of crisis.
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WHEN MACK Truck’s press people invited me to drive their electric trash truck at its headquarters in Greensboro, N.C., I was just so there. The very phrase sounded magical. Electric Trash Truck could be the name of my ’60s art-rock band. They also offered to let me use the side-loader’s grabber arm to fling bins into the air. It’s harder than it looks. With no engine rumble or barking brakes, Mack’s LR Electric rolls like a mute-button version of its diesel equivalent.
WHEN MACK Truck’s press people invited me to drive their electric trash truck at its headquarters in Greensboro, N.C., I was just so there. The very phrase sounded magical. Electric Trash Truck could be the name of my ’60s art-rock band. They also offered to let me use the side-loader’s grabber arm to fling bins into the air. It’s harder than it looks. With no engine rumble or barking brakes, Mack’s LR Electric rolls like a mute-button version of its diesel equivalent.
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For decades, Jon Whipple and Darrel Weaver spent their professional lives climbing the corporate ladder into executive roles, where their work settings ranged from big offices to bigger conference rooms.
These days, however, if you’re looking for Whipple and Weaver, you won’t find them in any office — at home or otherwise — or wearing any business attire.
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Well-managed companies who are growing and reaching for that next level often find themselves stretched thin financially as they wait for customers to pay them, and they turn to their banker for a line of credit.
When a line of credit is used correctly, it provides short-term financing to companies that have a long operating cycle — the cycle between the time that the company begins paying the costs involved with a job and the time that the customer pays.
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Digital marketing has come to the forefront as one of the chief disciplines in communications practice.
That makes sense when we consider that digital citizenship is up. A whopping 96 percent of American adults now claim to carry a mobile device, and the lines between “digital” and “in-person” life are blurred to the point of being nearly indistinguishable.
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I’ve become a true Zoombie! How about you? Over the last few months, I’ve attended, hosted and managed more Zoom meetings and events than I can count. Who would have imagined such a scene?
Our new virtual reality begs us to step up our game online. How are you showing up?
To celebrate this year’s Nevada Day, the state’s “Made in Nevada” program launched a new ecommerce site for Nevada businesses to sell their products directly to consumers.
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As most of the major media categories — music, video and video games — have existed for decades, we tend to forget that media is technology. Instead, we think of technology as being used to express media, rather than media itself.
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In the spring of 2014, Mark Tsigounis was in the middle of taking his hiking hobby to great lengths — literally. Tsigounis, like thousands of hikers every year, was in the midst of traversing the forests, wild lands and mountains of the Appalachian Trail, a 2,190-footpath stretching from Georgia to Maine.
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This week, I’ll share two ways to create successful “hybrid” meetings where some people attend in person while others attend online. The technology you’ll need for these hybrid meetings can range from simple to quite complex, depending on how much simultaneous interaction you want among your attendees.
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