Archive for February 2004
How to Start a Cleaning Service: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success
Amazon: “This set includes a lot of irrelevant information ie..overly detailed information about computer terms like RAM. But, the other stuff that is specific to starting a cleaning business is not there. I seriously doubt the authors have any experience in this industry. This will NOT get you ready to start a cleaning business. Most [...]
Berlitz Polish Phrase Book (Berlitz Phrase Books)
Amazon: “The Berlitz Polish Phrase Book gives the reader what he/she needs. In a variety of situations, Berlitz provides phrases and vocabulary to help tourists survive and thrive in Poland. For those going for an extended stay these phrases and vocabulary provide a great starting point for beginning to master the language. Also provides tips [...]
Amazon: “This book is a good introduction to how to create a business venture in the post.com era. It is used as a text book at Copenhagen Business School, and it has been effective for students like me in order to fast grasp what I need to do in order to create a business. I [...]
Five Ideas for Unique (and Cheap) Marketing
Home Based Business Opportunities: Home-based businesses generally lack the large marketing budgets of bigger companies, but a smaller budget doesn’t have to stop you from engaging in clever and effective campaigns. When marketing on a budget, you need to “think outside the box” and go beyond the obvious marketing approaches. Direct mail and banner ads, [...]
Five Foolproof Ways to Improve Your Web Site Sales
Home Based Business Opportunities: When you run an online home-based business, your web site is more than simply a company location. It’s also your primary source of advertising and marketing. If you’ve noticed that sales are lagging or if you’re simply looking for ideas for a site you’re building, the following five tips can help [...]
Benefits of Ebooks for Your Business
Home Based Business Opportunities: No matter what type of home-based business you operate, chances are ebooks are already or should be part of it. Most of us are familiar with the term and probably have seen at least one ebook, but you may not have realized how beneficial they could be for your business. Ebooks [...]
How Becoming an Expert Can Boost Your Success
Home Based Business Opportunities: As a home-based business owner, part of your focus is always on securing new customers. While it is true that your repeat clients are the backbone of your success, you need to add to those returning numbers if you want your business to grow. One of the best ways to make [...]
Brand Autopsy is sharing insights about business and marketnig learned from drug dealers: Being surrounded by throngs of hucksters, all proclaiming the superiority of their product, spitting rocks into their hands, clutching rocks with a death grip, shoving each other out of the way, and jostling the buyer in the process, is no doubt disconcerting [...]
Ideal Marketing Methods for Home-Based Businesses
Home Based Business Opportunities: What is the difference between a small business that makes it and one that does not? Most likely, the one that was successful engaged in some effective marketing. Wise marketing is critical for owners of home-based businesses for a number of reasons: 1. Marketing keeps you ahead of the competition 2. [...]
First Steps to Picking the Perfect Marketing Method For Your Home-Based Business
Home Based Business Opportunities: Part of running a successful business is making it grow. Home-based businesses are no exception. In fact, it can be even more important if you are just starting out or lack a potential client base. The key to growing a business is marketing. Marketing is how you connect with individuals who [...]
Fast Company: “Shelby is a buzz machine, the sort of hyperdevoted customer that marketers dreams of. As traditional media channels fragment and consumers zap commercials quicker than you can say TiVo, more companies are looking to harness the power of buzz. ‘Word of mouth has superseded any form of paid advertising, in terms of influence,’ [...]
The BBC explores the inspirational story of two teenagers who you’ll never see begging HR for a raise — because they own the company! School was certainly ill at odds with the dreams of teenage entrepreneur Andrew Butt. The founder of software group Enable Software, now aged 20, got a taste for business at the [...]
Where To Call For Free Printing, Advertising And Free Business Advice! – Why Pay For It?
Home Based Business Opportunities: Believe it or not, there are plenty of opportunities out there for you to get your written materials free of charge, for free advertising space, and free business advice. For free advertising space, many publications will write an article about you or your product if you purchase advertising space with them. [...]
Who’s job is safe? NY Times: “Rueters told its editorial employees in an electronic posting late last week that it planned to hire six journalists in Bangalore, India, to do basic financial reporting on 3,000 small to medium-size American companies. ‘It’s a place where you can get people who understand English, understand financial statements, understand [...]
How “Info-Loading” Can Increase Your Ad’s Pulling Power
Home Based Business Opportunities: There are many schools of thought on how to write a successful direct-response ad, letter or brochure. Some say you need to be subtle, some say be harsh, some say be round-about, some say be direct. There is one technique, though, that is coming to the forefront as one of the [...]
18 Ways To Use The Word “Free” In Your Ads
Home Based Business Opportunities: 1. The word “FREE” is still the most powerful,… the most often used word in advertising today! If you have anything to offer FREE to others, you can use this powerful word! It pulls orders better than any other word! ` 2. ONE thing FREE when you buy Another! 3. Buy [...]
Internet Talk Radio impacts the Work at Home Mom Community
eMediaWire: “Technology and the internet takes a work at home Mom out of the home – Virtually. Mom produces and hosts an internet talk radio program from her home office. Work at Home Mom Talk Radio (WAHM Talk Radio) has been “on the air” for three months and it has been very well received by [...]
Linda Kaplan Thaler in FC Now: “Picasso wasn’t interested in becoming a curator. Meryl Streep is an extraordinary actress, but that doesn’t mean she wants to or would be any good at running a studio. Why does corporate America insist on taking your job away from you if you’re good at it and serve it [...]
→ pumpitupparty.com Pump It Up has the latest inflatable designs that are engaging, challenging and interactive. Kids love to play on recreational inflatables in their indoor arenas, and they continue to enjoy this fun activity time after time, visit after visit. Pump It Up’s inflatables are great for your private party, children’s party, birthday party, [...]
18 Methods For Obtaining Free Advertising!
Home Based Business Opportunities: Tricks of the Trade We’ve Used to Get a Lot of Free Ads 1. Advertising Specials 2. Free Listings 3. Print a Booklet Offering Tips 4. The Piggy-Back Method 5. Free “Give-Aways” 6. Your Own Advertiser/Newsletter 7. Trade Products/Services for Ad Space 8. Provide Commission Ads to Dealers 9. Columns; Releases, [...]
Sunbelt Business Advisors Network
→ sunbeltnetwork.com Sunbelt began operations in 1979 in Charleston, SC. Sunbelt prospered as a single office operation until 1991 when a partnership was formed with an individual to open an office in Greenville, SC. The partnership method was used to open additional offices in Charlotte, NC, Columbia, SC, and Spartanburg, SC. In each case, Sunbelt [...]
→ primroseschools.com Education and child/day care rank among the top service industries offering significant “upside” market potential. To that end, Primrose School franchisees are poised for success and growth as working families discover the value of a balanced approach to learning, in an atmosphere of nurturing care. People have great hopes for their children. And [...]
→ figaros.com Power your future by selling fresh, delicious, top-quality Figaro’s Pizza, tuned and tested by more than 20 years in business. Team up with Figaro’s and you’ll participate in one of the fastest growing, most respected franchise operations in the country. Pizza is universally popular. It’s quick, convenient, affordable, nutritious and, of course, delicious. [...]
→ foxspizza.com On March 7, 1971, with $500, a rented storeroom and a few pieces of used equipment rescued from the snow and ice of a Pittsburgh scrap yard, Jim Fox fulfilled his lifelong dream of opening a pizza shop in his hometown of Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. As the first pizza slid from the oven at [...]
→ pizzainn.com Since pizza was first brought to the United States after WWII, it has been eagerly adopted as an American classic! Its popularity with kids and adults worldwide has made pizza one of the biggest foodservice segments. Now is your chance to be a part of this growing industry with Pizza Inn! Pizza Inn, [...]
→ marcos.com The pizza Business is BIG business–more than $25 Billion annually! You can grab a slice of the pie with Marco’s Franchising, LLC, one of the most successful regional pizza franchisors around! With their experienced development team, they are ready to take this successful regional pizza chain to a national level. They are offering [...]
→ www.pizzapizza.ca The Pizza Pizza story began in December 1967, in a 300 square foot Restaurant located at the corner of Wellesley and Parliament Streets in Toronto. The initial take-out and delivery restaurant prospered because of the company’s commitment to quality, freshness, service excellence, customer satisfaction, and innovation. They continue to be dedicated to these [...]
→ ronziopizza.com Rozino Pizza is a chain of locally owned franchised pizza shops whose primary focus is to offer value to their customers while maintaining the highest standards of quality for the home delivery of pizza and pizza related products, featuring hand tossed pizzas, prepared in state of the art conveyor ovens, using 100% real [...]
→ www.zpizza.com Z Pizza was founded in the art colony of Laguna Beach, California, where creativity and craftsmanship have flourished for almost a century. So it comes as no surprise that their critically acclaimed pizza is a true Laguna original. A passion for great food is why they start with dough made from premium Montana [...]
