Archive for October 3rd, 2007
SAHM's Start Their Own Business
IndyStar.com: With only an idea and no business plan in place, Taquoya Porter and Crystal Dunn set out on a mission to redefine the term stay-at-home mom. With a shoestring budget and only the skills they had acquired through educational training and work experience, the two Indianapolis women started their own home-based business, S.A.H.M. (Stay [...]
Pawprints Unveils A New Low Cost Home Business
PowerHomeBiz.com: Original Pawprints has issued a highly polished home training option using DVD technology to help moms and families start a home business producing beautiful kiln fired ceramic handprints – baby handprints, pet pawprints – as cherished keepsake items. These clay handprint keepsakes are customized for each person (or their pet) to mark the important [...]
As Fall Approaches, Turn Full Attention To Biz
Rhonda Abrams at Gannett News Service: More phone calls. More e-mails. Hopefully, more orders. You’re still wondering where summer went, when – bang! – you’re suddenly back to work at full speed. Of course, as a business owner, you’re never completely away from work. Even when you went on vacation – and I hope you [...]
43folders.com: I’ve started collecting stories — some of which may be entirely apocryphal tall tales — of the purported lengths to which people are going to filter noise and to ensure that their time and attention aren’t ceded to bad ideas, thoughtless people, or garden-variety time burglars. Here’s a few of the more novel ones [...]
Interview with the New Owner of BusinessMoms.net
Last month, Bunmi Zalob sold BusinessMom.net on eBay for $3,050. At the time of the sale, we ran an interview I did with Bunmi. Today, we have a brief chat with the new owner, Janice Clark. You recently purchased BusinessMom.net. What attracted you the website? I love the idea of being able to help develop [...]
Top Small Workplaces 2007: Exactech
The Wall Street Journal: Think “great place to work,” and big companies like Google typically spring to mind. But across the country, many small businesses and nonprofits have built workplace environments and cultures that rival — or even outshine — the big names. Training at many companies revolves around teaching employees to perform their current [...]
10 Businesses Facing Extinction
Entrepreneur: Determining which industries aren’t long for this world may seem easy enough. But some types of businesses, such as telemarketing, are surprisingly hard to kill. And then again, other industries, probably the ones you’re sad to see go, can’t find a way to survive. 1. Record stores 2. Camera film manufacturing 3. Crop dusters [...]
Facebook to Pay $250,000 for Top Apps
Entrepreneur: The second-most-trafficked social networking site, Facebook, is hoping a new offer will help it overtake competitor MySpace.com, which holds the number-one spot. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the site is looking for software developers to create applications for the platform. The new incentives are part of a $10 million fund financed by two [...]
