Archive for September 13th, 2006
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at View From a Height.
Springwise: Designed in California and manufactured in India, GoinGreen’s G-Wiz electric cars are a hit in London, where the company has sold over 600 units, making London the electric car capital of the world. GoinGreen, which was founded in 2004 and has received numerous new business awards, did so purely by word of mouth – [...]
Rhonda Abrams At Gannett News Service: The reality of small businesses is that family members are often called upon — or given the opportunity — to be a part of the business. Sometimes, as in my case, they’re used in a pinch. But many other times, entrepreneurs turn to family members as employees, lenders, or [...]
Janelle Elms at Entrepreneur Magazine: How would you like to increase the final prices of your online eBay items by as much as 16 percent with the click of one button? You can: Simply by offering PayPal as a payment option and adding international shipping to your listings, you will connect to a global marketplace [...]
Arizona Republic: As Amy Halm tells her story, the epiphany began “on one too many 4 a.m. conference calls talking about semiconductors.” There has to be work more meaningful and down to earth, she mused. So started the path to Chickbait. Called ChickBait, they’re the lures and flies used to hook fish. Halm has found [...]
How To Get PR for Your New Business
Kim T. Gordon at Entrepreneur’s StartUps: Ready to launch your business, but lack the budget for an ad campaign? PR is a low-cost, high-impact way to build name recognition and early sales. Here are five tips to creating your own successful PR campaign: 1. Tell a compelling story. 2. Choose the right media. 3. Tailor [...]
