Archive for November 23rd, 2004
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Get Paid: Turning Those Sales into Real Money
Atlanta Biz Journal: Sales are sales. But sales morph into real money only when that elusive check arrives in the mail, as businesses inevitably learn in the School of Hard Knocks. A thriving company usually has many valuable employees, and the accounts receivable (AR) manager certainly ranks in that category. Or ought to. “Some businesses [...]
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U.S. Economic Freedom Index: 2004
IRS Increase Per-Mile Driving Rate
Entrepreneur: “The IRS announced last week that it would be raising the standard per-mile business driving rate from 37.5 cents per mile to 40.5 cents per mile. The new standard is the amount taxpayers can deduct for vehicle expenses on their 2005 tax return for business miles driven. Just why the increase? Higher prices for [...]
Making Money Cleaning Up Bad Language
Reveries: “A small, but growing, entrepreneurial niche is finding profits in cleaning up the hot language and other objectionable stuff in videogames and movies, reports Peter Loftus in The Wall Street Journal. One company, called eGames, egames.com, is simply offering wholesome alternatives to ‘edgy’ fare like ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ with trivia games such as ‘Do [...]
How Do I Sell A Reality Show Idea?
A reader wrote: I have an idea for a great reality show. It will soon be thought of by someone else. Therefore I have to sell the idea asap. How do I make money off it? The short answer is, unfortunately, you can’t. Most companies won’t even listen to pitches for unsolicited ideas because there’s [...]
Until You Get A Sale, Nothing Else Matters
Michael Cage: “This is a hard learned lesson for many entrepreneurs who believe the important part of their business is the idea. The idea is important, to be certain. But there IS NO BUSINESS until you have a customer. In most cases, priority number one should be to get the first sale as quickly as [...]
Health Care Gets Cheaper When The Consumer Pays For It Directly
Marginal Revolution: Laser eye surgery has the highest patient satisfaction ratings of any surgery, it has been performed more than 3 million times in the past decade, it is new, it is high-tech, it has gotten better over time and… laser eye surgery has fallen in price. In 1998 the average price of laser eye [...]
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Chuck Huckaby: “If you have highly specialized skills, knowledge, etc. like a consultant and have low overhead, you can work at home, make good money and WORK LESS than the entrepreneurs who are slaving away. You might even have FUN!”
Startup Journal: In August 2002, Lynn Dralle closed the doors to Cheryl Leaf Antiques & Gifts, but that wasn’t the end of her retail business. Today the store’s collection of old furniture, glassware and knickknacks reach thousands more customers from their high-tech home — on eBay. Ms. Dralle’s grandmother, an avid collector, opened the Bellingham, [...]
Wired: So with MarketWatch sold and Slate likely getting sold soon, could MSNBC, CNET, Salon.com and all the other dot-com survivors be next? Nah, unlikely. But there could be a spate of other media properties for sale. Namely blogs. You heard me. According to Sam Whitmore, editor of Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey, over the next [...]
Backyard Wineries and Garagistes
Anita Campbell in Small Business Trends: You’ve heard of garage bands. You’ve also heard of the high tech companies started by “two guys in a garage.” Well now there are garage wineries. These are small businesses making wine from their homes, without the expensive vineyards. I can see it now — all the business opportunities [...]
