Archive for February 19th, 2007
The Next Big Ad Medium: Podcasts
BusinessWeek: Remember podcasting? While marketers have been busy uploading commercials to YouTube, the once-buzzed-about medium has spent the past two years building its audience and enhancing advertising capability. Now, podcasts are finally poised to grab a larger slice of the multibillion-dollar online advertising pie. Research firm eMarketer expects that advertisers will spend more than $400 [...]
WorkWise: The first change to Daylight Saving Time since 1987 is looming, and it could cause havoc in your business systems. Daylight Saving Time starts almost a month SOONER this year (2nd Sunday in March instead of 1st Sunday in April) and lasts a week longer (ending 1st Sunday in November) Trouble might include scheduling [...]
On Presidents’ Day, I always celebrate the term of my favorite President, William Henry Harrison.
Million Dollar Business Started On Shoestring
Startups.co.uk: Russell Hirst was just 21-years-old when he set up his online flower delivery service from a bedroom at his parents’ home in Manchester, England. Hirst’s ‘one room, one computer’ company is now selling flowers to 120 countries. Hirst says he is self-taught when it comes to the internet and attributes his success with Valueflora [...]
Your Business Is Dead and You Don’t Even Know It
Small Business Computing: In his address to small business professionals attending the Small Business Summit 2007 in New York City, Justin Kitch, CEO of Homestead Technologies, a Web-site creation company, called the impact of the Internet a “seismic shift for small business that will only increase over the next five years.” While playfully entitled “Your [...]
St. Petersburg Times: It didn’t take long for a curious toddler to figure out how to unclasp the seat belt buckle that held her car seat in place. And it didn’t take long for that toddler’s mother to figure out a way to keep that from ever happening again. Patricia Mandarino of Spring Hill has [...]
