Archive for October 19th, 2007
Taking Advantage Of Home Business Internet Resources
Xomba: Why not work at home and make money online using today’s internet technology? With a home business using proven internet marketing techniques and opportunities it’s easy. Really! Now, more than ever, we are seeing a revolution of people starting a work at home internet business. If you’ve ever dreamed of having a home business, [...]
Entrepreneurs Feel The Squeeze
The Gazette: Gloria Kakon recently learned first-hand the sacrifices it takes to be self-employed. “I haven’t seen my family in four months and haven’t had a vacation in seven months,” Kakon said, referring to the 18-hour days she puts in baking and running her new patisserie, Cho’cola Bake Shop. Kakon was a stay-at-home mom who [...]
‘Microtrends’ Offer Many Opportunities
Columbia Tribune: Market research includes studying various trends, as well as an evaluation of the business opportunities within those trends. One of the pioneers in this work was John Naismith, who in 1982 published the book “Megatrends” and was one of the first predictors of the transition of the industrial economy to an information economy. [...]
Rhonda Abrams At Gannett News Service: Stuck at work? Daydreaming about starting your own business? You’re not alone. More than two-thirds of all working adults want to resign from their jobs to start their own business, according to a soon-to-be-released study from Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks. Intuit gave me an exclusive first look at [...]
Invention Aims To Keep Children Safe
Gazette.net: Virginia Lu found a lost child crying at a Redskins football game last season, and thought it could easily have been one of her five youngsters who got separated in the crowd. So, the North Potomac resident invented a temporary tattoo for tots, called Tottoos, which are aimed at helping lost children to reunite [...]
Websites May Require Visually Impaired Access
TechCrunch: California may require websites to provide access to visually impaired users under ruling made in the long running case of the National Federation of the Blind vs Target. The case centers on Target not providing basic accessibility to vision impaired users via the use of alt tags for images, keyboard options for navigation and [...]
