Archive for November 14th, 2006
PRNewswire: A new website created by 20-year-old student Shane Murphy is turning his dream to become a home owner into reality as he sells building blocks of his potential house as advertising space. Launched a few weeks ago, Shane’s homepage is fast becoming a new web wonder as businesses snap up the 100euro building blocks [...]
Inc.com: South Dakota, Nevada, and Wyoming are the most entrepreneur-friendly states, according to a new survey by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. The 11th annual “Small Business Survival Index” evaluated each state’s public policy climate for small businesses. Rankings were based on 29 major government-imposed or government-related costs, including state and local property taxes, [...]
19 New Women’s Business Centers Funded
PRNewswire: The U.S. Small Business Administration today announced $12 million in grant funding for 19 new Women’s Business Centers (WBCs) and 80 existing WBCs, broadening the reach of business training and counseling to assist women to start, grow and expand their small businesses. The $12 million includes funding for the 19 new WBCs, continued funding [...]
Eight Tips for Start-Up Success
Entrepreneur.com: If you’re like most new or wannabe business owners, you want to hit a home run right from the start. And who can blame you? You’re probably investing the majority of your life savings in your business, so you need it to succeed, right? Here are eight guidelines you’ll want to follow to help [...]
Inventor’s Sticky Mat Could Snare Prize
SundayMKNews: Matthew Aikenhead, 27, hopes to get £100,000 for his invention Sticmatz from the TV program The Big Idea. Mr Aikenhead invented the product in 2002 after his sunglasses fell out of his car window as he turned a corner. Sticmatz is a super sticky mat that can carry just about anything on the dashboard [...]
Basic Selling Tip To Get Started on eBay
Ebay is a worldwide used online auction site. Sometimes to start to sell on a site like this is quite daunting, so I have put together some eBay selling tips to help you get started and hopefully to help you make some money. If you are still thinking of ideas of what you could sell [...]
Unique Services You Can Sell on eBay
If you ask many sellers what the major drawbacks to selling on eBay are then many would say the packaging and shipping of items. Who really wants to get up early in the morning before work to drop off a package at the post office? Or, to come home and have to rush to the [...]
IHT: And now even that trip is becoming obsolete. Many small businesses around the United States are starting to use scanners specially designed to turn paper checks into screen images that can be deposited over the Internet, without having to leave the office. It is a practice called remote deposit, and it has trickled down [...]
Can Three People Partner Effectively?
USA Today: The founders of LittleMissMatched don’t know what happens to perfectly good socks that disappear in the wash. But the mystery of the missing socks led them into a business venture that started small and is growing fast. Arielle Eckstut, Jason Dorf and Jonah Staw started selling packs of three or seven mismatched socks [...]
