Archive for September 11th, 2007
10 Tips For Balancing Parenthood And A Direct Sales Business
The Mom’s Cafe: 1. Plan – Sit down with your calendar and write out everything non-direct sales business related first. Decide which of those things are non-negotiable no matter how many people want to do parties on that day. 2. Power Hour – One of my favorite speakers in the direct sales field is Belinda [...]
Live As A Tastefully Simple Biz Op Owner
Entrepreneur: In April 1999, Gina Lenard’s less-than-stellar career in home party sales had finally come to an end. Hungry for business ideas, Lenard posted a query online. But what she received was an inbox full of e-mails from companies soliciting everything from selling dishes to stuffing envelopes. One e-mail came from a consultant at Tastefully [...]
From Tree Huggers In an age where we have electric everything, we forget that things were not always so easy. This Oregon woman thought that pedalling her sewing machine was not an efficient use of her energy, so she “devised a plan whereby her sewing machine pedal could be made to do the work of [...]
Business Consulting Gone Terribly Wrong
Two consultants attempt to solve a morale problem. [youtube]ZPTsltGe_d0[/youtube]
No wonder we’re losing out to India in the computer tech industry! [youtube]e5ejY-Q38uQ[/youtube]
TechnaBob: The brilliant minds of industrial design firm Sonic Design came up with this design for an iPod-inspired bottle opener called the iDrink. In keeping with Apple’s DRM (Drinker’s Rights Management) policies, the iDrink opener will only open bottles which have been purchased from the iDrink store (99 cents each). In addition, the opener features [...]
Springwise: After years of being ignored, female drivers are finally getting recognized by the auto industry as an important part of the market. What could make more sense, then, than an emerging market for women-specific automotive tools? The Pink Toolbox Co. packs its Pink Car Kit with essential emergency supplies such as jump leads, mobile [...]
Mashable: eMarketer reports that spending for online advertising has surpassed ad dollars spent on radio advertising for the first time in 2007, with online marketing reaching $21.7 billion while radio reached $20.4 billion. This would indicate the dominance of online marketing, and make some speculate that radio is a dying part of our culture. eMarketer [...]
Future Web Trends: Artificial Intelligence
ReadWriteWeb: Possibly the ultimate Next Big Thing in the history of computing, AI has been the dream of computer scientists since 1950 – when Alan Turing introduced the Turing test to test a machine’s capability to participate in human-like conversation. In the context of the Web, AI means making intelligent machines. In that sense, it [...]
Wise Women Investor: Recently, I attended a women’s leadership meeting where the question “Can a great idea mixed with passion make you money?” was the subject of discussion. I listened to several professional women business owners discuss the keys to growing a successful enterprise. Here are the top 5 answers straight from the top! 1. [...]
