Archive for January 3rd, 2005
E-Myth Mastery : The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company
Amazon: “Building on the groundbreaking principles of The E-Myth Revisited, this book presents a practical, real-world program that can be implemented in real time in your business. Developed over decades with thousands of successful clients, Gerber’s program for entrepreneurial mastery takes the popular E-Myth point of view to its completion. Beginning with the vitality of [...]
→ acscorp.us ACS International collects on delinquent accounts, judgments, notes, liens, open accounts, credit cards and checks. Today’s debtors are more sophisticated than ever before. The fair debt collections practices act favors the debtor more than the business owner, and they know it. This leads businesses to become frustrated with internal collection processes and lost [...]
→ wackybear.com Wacky Bear Factory is a unique, interactive toy store that lets you stuff, fluff and dress your one-of-a-kind treasure. When you select an animal from Wacky Bear, it’s so much more than picking one out of a pile, because you actually put it together yourself. Whether it’s for yourself or to give as [...]
→ fastbucks.com At FastBucks, business is booming. They specialize in offering payday loans, which allow customers to borrow against future paychecks for emergencies or other short-term cash needs. Payday loan stores across North America have more than tripled in the past ten years and FastBucks has become an integral part of this recession-proof industry. FastBucks [...]
Go Into Business Removing Bumper Stickers
Dan Sherman: How many cars do you see now with the 2004 election bumper stickers on their backside? I see LOTS of them. They’re everywhere. I was smart enough to put my Bush/Cheney sticker on my back window. Putting them on the window allows for a much easier removal. But what about those poor saps [...]
The Journal News: For those who feel their handshaking ability may be lacking, Holland offers these tips: Business is gender neutral. Don’t wait for a woman to extend her hand or vice versa. A good handshake results in full contact. Don’t just grab the tips of someone’s fingers. It sends a condescending message to women [...]
Crime Scene Cleanup Business Booming
Wiggin and Dana’s Franchise Law Blog: “Here’s a concept that can’t miss. There are companies whose principal business is to clean residences or lodging facilities that have been the site of a grisly death — often by suicide or murder. Tragic Solutions and Aftermath, two companies that have pledged themselves to the cleanup of crime/death [...]
Startup Journal: Tax-deductible business expenses are fairly straightforward. Whatever is ordinary –meaning that similar businesses would incur this expense — and necessary for operating your business is likely to fall into the deductible category. Office equipment, business-telephone line, advertising, stationery and business cards are some of the obvious expenditures. As a sole proprietor (meaning you [...]
Lucky or Smart? : Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life
Amazon: “For anyone looking to spend an hour or so conversing one-on-one with a successful Internet entrepreneur, Peabody has put his end of that conversation in writing. As founder of a startup, Tripod, Inc. — and a reaper of pre-Internet Bubble riches — Peabody graciously provides his thoughts on how and why he’s been so [...]
Ways to fix your life: Quit your job
Yahoo! News: In some ways, now is a better time than ever to quit. “If you’ve been at one company for too long, corporate America figures that you are a dud,” says Barbara Sher, author of I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was. “Companies are not loyal to employees anymore. Nobody [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Management Craft.
