Take it from our developer: Build web services without spending too much

We deliver Market Intelligence to meet the specific needs of the busy executives and civic leaders we serve. We do not deliver it on paper that arrives on our clients’ desks once every 24 hours. And we do not deliver it in Word documents attached to e-mail messages.

Media Salad’s Market Intelligence Portal is really something to see. We’re proud of it – and it has been a long time (OK, so a little more than a year) in the works. Our Web-based content-management-and-delivery system will certainly evolve and improve, but it’s already operating at an impressive level given the size of our startup.

At the helm of our tech development is Dusty Candland, a software developer in Colorado who is passionate about helping early-stage companies build smart and solid tech foundations. (more…)

Improve business by mining public information

Companies and organizations could double their business opportunities in only a matter of weeks if they devoted more time and resources to inspecting public records.

Local, state, federal. Doesn’t matter. The information that springs from a city’s planning department is just as likely to yield millions of dollars in revenue as a much publicized federal contract.

We frequently scour public records for our clients, quickly alerting them when we think we’ve turned up something interesting. To aid our searches, we reach only for the best instruction — which is why we highly recommend these resources for professionals responsible for “business development:” (more…)

Disabled vets lose business to fraud

A security engineering firm in Colorado recently drew our attention to abuse of the federal government’s Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program (SDVOSB).

Because of fraud and corporate shenanigans, hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts have been awarded to large — even multinational — corporations instead of to disadvantaged business owners who have served the United States honorably. (more…)

Not an optimist? Go away.

“The first step toward innovation is optimism,” writes Mark Briggs, a veteran journalist and author of a book we like, Journalism Next: A Practical Guide to Digital Reporting and Publishing.

Let’s just say Media Salad abounds with optimism. (more…)