Archive for December 6th, 2006
Viral Marketing For Business Success
This article was written by the Caffeine Marketing blog. Viral Marketing is commonly confused with word-of-mouth marketing. This is mainly due to the fact that viral marketing can create a buzz about your business that stretches beyond the scope of newspaper, television, and radio ads combined. Viral marketing is a like a virus that can spread [...]
The Sims Entrepreneurial Lifestyle
My wife just pinged me to say that it now possible for your Sims to live the entrepreneurial lifestyle with The Sims 2: Open for Business Expansion Pack. This may be just the thing that the budding entrepreneur would love to find under the Christmas tree!
Entrepreneur Hits Road To Push Pricey Pogo
SFGate.com: The man who can jump 8 feet high on a pogo stick was bouncing through San Francisco, on a mission. The mission is to figure out if the world is ready to spend $380 on a pogo stick. Brian Spencer has sunk a good chunk of his life savings into designing, manufacturing and promoting [...]
InsideBayArea.com: Michael Bradley and George Gonzalez of Oakland are like so many entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. They talk excitedly and effusively about their new business. They spend odd hours night and day working on their business plan. They wear T-shirts with the company logo on it. But unlike most entrepreneurs, Bradley and Gonzalez are [...]
StarNewsOnline.com: Life was dark for Harold Thompson in 2001. Corning laid him off. He got divorced from his second wife. When former co-worker Mary Burden came in to shop. She had been laid off, too, and they got to talking. At some point, she suggested: “You know, there are rings for high school football, anniversaries, [...]
Craftsman Makes Unique Niche Product
BYU NewsNet: Dave Giles owns and operates The Gavel Store, an online distributor of handcrafted gavels, from his home in Provo. Giles learned woodworking as he worked with his father when he was 18 years old. He began selling old-fashioned wooden yo-yos, but the product wasn’t moving as well as Giles would’ve liked. He tried [...]
10 Big Ideas Coming From Small Businesses In 2007
FSB Magazine: When a new product from Microsoft debuts, it doesn’t arrive quietly. Instead it gets tracked through the R&D pipeline by trade magazines, bloggers and carefully controlled announcements from the marketing department. Small-business innovations don’t work that way. They tiptoe into the market, heralded by minimal PR (if any) and propelled instead by the [...]
