Take Your Vacation Time

Take Your Vacation Time

I recently read an article in The Huffington Post that got me thinking about all that unused vacation time I have sitting around. The article suggests that “about 40 percent of Americans don’t plan on using all of their time off.” If I am being completely honest with...
The Better vLookUp

The Better vLookUp

Spreadsheet mastery comes in varying degrees, but there is one formula that seems to separate basic users from more advanced users. That formula is vLookUp. To the advanced users, vLookUp is child’s play. Even the intermediate user thinks vLookUp is a basic tool to be...
Lies and statistics

Lies and statistics

You may recognize the title to this post as part of a famous quote popularized by Mark Twain. There are two key words missing from the quote, but this is a family friendly blog, so…. Let’s establish up front that I’m a big fan of marketing....
Judgment is the name of the game

Judgment is the name of the game

Like all businesses, we generate questions that don’t have easy or obvious answers. The competition is always innovating and that creates pressure from the market to adapt, copy or justify sticking to our guns. For us, we’ve talked on this blog about staged funding...