"If your small business has received approval for a loan from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), congratulations on obtaining aid to help get your business and your employees through the shutdown measures needed to stop the spread of COVID-19," writes Bruce Brumberg of longtime SIPA member myStockOptions.com, in an article titled You Got Your Paycheck Protection Program Loan. Now What? Advice From Small-Business Lawyers.   "However, you need to use the loan carefully. First, you want to maximize the feature that makes the PPP loan forgivable. Second, you want to use the loan properly so that you stay out of legal trouble for any potential abuse of the program."   Brumberg's article, along with his previous post—How to Avoid Going to Prison for Your Payroll Protection Program Loan: Advice From Former Federal Prosecutors—both appear on the Forbes website. They are just a couple of the many great resources that SIPA members are p ...

Business Management Daily Acquires Manager's Intelligence Report from Ragan Communications

At a session last week at SIPA Annual 2019 titled Content Is a Fixed Cost: How One Publisher Saved $65k and Made Their Staff Happier, Cal Butera, editor, blogger, cartoonist, for Business Management Daily, wanted to make a point about using books for sources of free content.

Investing Daily Continues Rapid Growth by Acquiring 10 Advisory Publications from Street Authority and Profitable Trading

Business Management Daily published an HR IQ test last week that's worth checking out. It's thoughtful and informative, and they also have some fun with it with questions like: 

Ask and you shall receive engagement. That's what Business Management Daily accomplished last year with its Leadership Challenge Week Aug. 8-12 —winning a 2017 SIPAward for Best Social Media Initiative.

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Some of us, when enjoying music, may shut our eyes and focus on the dreamy nature and transformative power of the rhythms and words. Adam Goldstein, publisher of Business Management Daily, told a riveted SIIA audience in Boston Thursday that this can also work for finding good webinar presenters.

A key to making an idea sticky is to tell it as a story. Stories encourage a kind of mental simulation or reenactment on the part of the listener that burns the idea into the mind. For example, a flight simulator is much more effective than flash cards in training a pilot. The hard part about using a story is creating it. The best way to use a story is to always be on the lookout for them. Most good stories are collected and discovered, rather than produced..."