Archive for February 2008
Looking For A Tax Break? Try Western Australia.
thinkingaustralia.com: A range of tax breaks are available for entrepreneurs seeking to start or migrate new businesses to Western Australia, says darrell todd, ceo of thinkingaustralia.com. “With its ongoing booming economy, Western Australia is a highly attractive destination for business people seeking new opportunities,” says todd, whose company is supporting the Western Australian government’s bid [...]
Aromatherapy was something that Darcey Pickard loved. Owning her own massage practice, Darcey definitely knew what she was doing when she started to create her own Starjuice aromatherapy oils. It wasn’t until the birth of her son, though, that she decided it was time to try a new route. She’d been selling Starjuice to friends [...]
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Boom In Safe High-End Baby Products
PR Web: The baby market has been booming with products as of late that answer the latest news of harmful chemicals in baby products. With the latest results of Phthalates found in 80% of tested infants, mom-owned companies are answering the call for safer baby products. There are more mom and family-owned businesses than ever [...]
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Business Success Is All Sewn Up
The Fayetteville Observer: Erika Gee Harris taught herself to sew for a practical reason. She needed skirts for a part-time job she held as a student at N.C. A&T State University. Harris learned how to sew from a book, using her mother’s old sewing machine. Harris did the sewing for her own wedding in 1992 [...]
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This ad for Alberta Travel replicates a ski vacation down to the ski shoes and snowy ground.
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The “Work From Home” Generation
ReadWriteWeb: For decades in American households the most dreaded morning sound was that of an alarm clock. Sometime between 6 and 7am a beep or radio music signaled that it was time to get up and head to work. But in the early 21st century two things have begun to change. First, the alarm clock [...]
Small Companies Finding Home On The Web
The New York Times: The Web site for Sophia Brodsky’s day spa in Philadelphia, the Body Klinic, was pretty rudimentary until a college student walked into the spa a little more than two years ago with an irresistible offer. As she tells it, the student, Nathaniel Stevens, said that for $10 he would take her [...]
Starting A Biz ? 5 Tips Can Save You
MarketWatch: Home and small businesses are a $427 billion-a-year industry – you may be planning to launch one yourself. Before you do, try to come up with reasons you shouldn’t, says Paul Stappas, founder of Bookkeeping Administration Management, a company that works with small businesses. That approach will help you minimize the risks associated with [...]
Inside Scoop On Starting Home-Based Baking Biz
Send2press Newswire: Starting a business can be expensive, but starting a home-based baking business is smart and cost-effective. It enables the business owner to try out their products in the market place, build their business skills, and acquire an understanding of what it takes to eventually open a business outside the home. “I’ve been asked [...]
Sara Schaefer Munoz wrote a post on the Wall Street Journal blog ‘The Juggle’ (The Juggle is about the choices and trade-offs people make as they juggle work and family) asking do you do more household chores when working from home? Working from home is oft-cited as an ideal way for people to manage their [...]
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Interview with a Global Resorts Network Super Affiliate
Global Resorts Network has now proven itself a leader in the industry. Thousands of people have started to capitalize from the multi trillion dollar travel industry. Business builders from all over the world are making remarkable incomes, some as high as 100k a month. Rob Franta is one such business builder. We last spoke to [...]
For This Niche, Foreclosures A Boom
The Wall Street Journal: Three weeks ago, 50-year-old Mimi Norris strapped on black steel-toe boots, packed a face mask and a digital camera in her bag, and headed to work. Her assignment: inspecting a foreclosed home in a blue-collar neighborhood of Akron, Ohio. From outside, the small white house appeared to be in good condition, [...]
Statesman Journal: You hear Gregorian chants. All around you it is blindingly white, and the taste of sweet rum cake is on your tongue. You think you may have died and gone to heaven, but it’s only Barbara Storey’s kitchen in Independence. That’s where and how Storey works, in her own home, baking and selling [...]
Making $$$ Off The Credit Crisis
Forbes: When credit gets tight, the vampires come out. Now feasting on small businesses is a cadre of “merchant cash advance” (MCA) shops. These lenders of last resort–which started popping up after the tech crash in 2001–give small businesses cash today in return for a percentage of their future credit card sales. Annualized cost of [...]
Growing iPod Repair Biz Founded By Students
PJStar.com: The iRepair Squad began as the iPod Repair Squad, and it was the winner of the initial Project Springboard business plan competition co-sponsored by Junction Ventures Ltd. and Bradley University. With that win came financial and technical assistance to get the company started. Nobody, Scaggs said, expected this kind of growth. That growth for [...]
Credit Crunch Looms Large For Small Biz
Reuters: The credit crunch driven by the U.S. housing crisis appears to have hit another engine of the American economy — small businesses. After years of fast and loose lending, major banks have begun tightening standards for loans to small businesses — often described as the backbone of the jobs market. That is making it [...]
Interview with a Retail Niche Clothing Website Entrepreneur
Beth Ann Herrin, the propietor of on the Realityplus Clothing Company took a few moments recently to speak with our special correspondent Lisa Di Clemente about starting her niche clothing website. Beth Ann, tell us about Realityplus Clothing. What prompted you to start this business? Realityplus Clothing Company is a company that was created to [...]
SmartBiz: There’s been a lot of concern lately that Web-driven companies are headed toward another bubble burst. Among the warning signs: (too) cheap venture capital; companies built to sell-off, not for the long-term; and a proliferation of me-too startups. Could this be another warning shot: “free” as a business model? Maybe yes. But maybe no. [...]
ThisIsMoney: A city banker who quit his £250,000-a-year job to set up a modern-day rag-and-bone business has seen the company make its first £1m. Jason Mohr gave up his ‘soul-destroying’ job at investment bank NM Rothschild to open AnyJunk, which removes and recycles items from unwanted office furniture to garden rubbish.The 38-year-old, who is based [...]
Inc.: The nation’s current patent system is a drain on entrepreneurship and small-business growth, a new study claims. Amid the increasing complexity of patent legislation, most patents today fail to meet set standards, according to the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, a Washington-based small-business advocacy group. Raymond Keating, the group’s chief economist, said the patent [...]
Floating A New Idea For Going Wireless
The Wall Street Journal: Jerry Knoblach wants to bring wireless service to millions of rural Americans. His plan: Beam it down from balloons hovering at the edge of space. This isn’t just hot air. His company, Space Data Corp., already launches 10 balloons a day across the Southern U.S., providing specialized telecom services to truckers [...]
Stupid Online Business Ideas That Worked
NicheGeek: 1. Million Dollar Homepage 1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel – that’s perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire. 2. SantaMail Ok, how’s that for a brilliant idea. Get a postal [...]
Are You An Accidental Pren-her?
Alkamae.com: An Accidental Pren-her is a woman who finds herself starting up a business for the very first time. Surprised, to say the least, because she never thought she ever would, nor had she, ever before, seriously considered doing so. Yet, here she stands, wagging her head in disbelief as she begins her journey (the [...]
ABC News: Last week’s column about work-at-home scams generated a flood of e-mails from people desperate to find another source of income and confused about how to identify legitimate offers. Many of the questions appear to be about multilevel marketing, one of the most common forms of work from home. People often confuse illegal pyramid [...]
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From Yahoo.com DES MOINES, Iowa – A judge has denied an Iowa man’s claim that he shouldn’t have been fired for repeatedly requesting help to procure a prostitute. Neil Jorgensen, 62, of Kalona, worked at Riverside Casino and Golf Resort in Riverside and was given a gift certificate and free night’s stay at the casino [...]
Yieldy, a New Website Advertising Venture
KillerStartups: Do you want to make some extra money on your web page or blog, but are looking for an alternative to Google Ads? Yieldy may be just what you are looking for. The site promises to feature “family-friendly” advertisements on the web pages of small and medium publishers. The advertisements are displayed in three [...]
reveries.com: Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow has a new book that outlines the demographic differences between young adults today and his own generation. His own generation would be the baby boomers, and Dr. Wuthnow says he was inspired to write After the Baby Boomers by his own children, who are in their 20s and 30s. The [...]
