Archive for October 5th, 2005
One year ago today: With a thousand channels to choose from, I demand quality content all the time — especially on the radio, where the eight minutes of commercials at the top of the hour can seem like an eternity.
Business Week: Everyone feels passionate about something. For some, it might be computer games, handmade candles, or chocolate cream-cheese crunch cake. For others, it may be skydiving, scrap-booking, or just good old-fashioned loafing around. Whatever your fancy — no matter how eccentric, exotic, or mundane — you enjoy it, and that’s all that matters. But [...]
This week’s Brain Brew Radio episode is online. This week: Lorenzo with Parable Venture Partners, LLC in Florida seeks out the Brain Brew Crews advice on how to create a buzz about their children’s read along books… Aaron with Treepot, Inc. looks for ways he can raise money to take his company to the next [...]
Directory assistance calls are an expensive (over a $1 on my cell), but handy necessity when you’re doing business on the go. 1-800-FREE411 is a new advertiser supported service from Jingle Networks that provides these calls for free: 1-800-FREE411 was created to provide callers with a free alternative to the skyrocketing rates being charged by [...]
Entrepreneurs are Great Rearrangers
David Lorenzo: Most successful entrepreneurs are great re-arrangers. They take something that has been useful somewhere else and rig it so that it is groundbreaking and disruptive to a completely different industry. An example of this is the demand forecasting model that Marriott employs in its hotels. This system was originally modeled after something that [...]
StartupJournal: More than $6 billion in tennis gear is sold each year in the U.S. — a big-volume business dominated by sporting-goods giants with huge sales forces and celebrity endorsements. Then there’s Caryl Parker. She is a weekend tennis enthusiast in San Mateo, Calif., who spent 16 years calling on customers for International Business Machines [...]
Which best describes your “employment” status? Unemployed, looking for a job Unemployed, not in the job market Retired Student Part Time Employee with business on the side Full Time Employee Full Time Employee with business on the side Freelancer Full Time Entrepreneur with 0 employees Entrepreneur with 1-10 employees Entrepreneur with 11-100 employees Entrepreneur with [...]
Starting Your First Business: Gain Independence and Love Your Work
Amazon: Here’s a business start-up book that truly “tells it like it is.” Even though it’s part of The American Dream Series, author Jim Sapp “gets real” right away, urging new business starter-uppers to do some heavy soul-searching and personality assessment. Following your dreams is one thing, but owning and operating your own business certainly [...]
Starting a Business When You Retire Just Means That You Keep Working
Jeff Cornwall: However, the problem with viewing entrepreneurship as the Holy Grail for their sunset years is that it may not help them achieve wealth. Many are choosing a self-employment, consulting route to entrepreneurship. They gained significant expertise within some specific area, and they become a “free agent” selling their service to a variety of [...]
Chuck at the Work at Home Business Opportunities Blog maybe onto something: When I read this Dilbert comic strip a few days ago, it sounded remarkably like many of the “work at home� job postings I see in Monster, etc. that are really work at home business opportunities where YOU have to pay. It made [...]
