Archive for September 19th, 2006
Unusual Businesses Ideas That Work: At a speed-dating event last summer, Melissa English walked away with more business contacts for her sister Sonia’s web design company than she did phone numbers for herself. At the same time, Sonia attended a business-networking event hosted by the local chamber of commerce and walked away with nothing. Sensing [...]
Do What You Love Until You Go Broke
Scott Allen at About Entrepreneurs: In recent years, the philosophy “Do What You Love, and the Money Will Follow” has become increasingly popular following the success of the book Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow by Marsha Sinetar. While the approach sounds great, as career coach Dr. Marty Nemko puts it, “Millions of [...]
You Can Get an Idea to Market Without an Invention Submission Firm
Roger Brown at American Inventor Spot: One of the questions I am constantly asked is how I got my inventions to market and how much did it cost me. They are extremely surprised when I tell them it cost me less than $100 and I did it without the aid of the rip-off Invention Submission [...]
Bill Pits Prisons Against Small Businesses
Inc.com: For the second time in three years, the House has approved a bill forcing prisons to compete with small businesses for federal contracts. The Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act, which passed the House by 362-57, allows small private-sector manufacturers to vie for formerly non-competitive government contracts for office furniture, electronics, and other [...]
EBay Stakes Claim To Word ‘It’
MarketWatch: Online auctioneer eBay Inc. has begun trying to keep other companies from using the rather pedestrian phrases at the heart of its 11-month-old “it” marketing campaign. The foundation for the new effort was first laid in March, when eBay asked federal authorities to grant it trademarks for the phrases “You Can Get It On [...]
