Archive for February 11th, 2008
Sunshine Coast Daily: “We aim to have a belly laugh every day.” These are the words of Jeanette Jones, who says her business TRAC Consulting, which she runs jointly with its founder and her husband Mark, is a values-driven organisation. But in among the honesty, transparency, communication and respect is a firm emphasis on fun. [...]
Everything A Busy Family Needs In Seattle
I have said it many times, but that doesn’t change the truth of it – necessity is the mother of invention. I just happen to write about it when it’s a mother that’s creates it. This time it was a group of mothers that helped fill a niche in their own home town of Seattle. [...]
SWVAToday.com: Creativity is spontaneous, explains Anne Vaughan as she talks about her work. Surrounded by a multitude of colorful beads, the jewelry designer says it’s a feeling of energy that starts the process and helps her create the one-of-a-kind necklaces, earrings and bracelets. The Floyd woman began her home business 1 ½ years ago, and [...]
Candle Love Turned Candle Business
Tehachapi News: Some people spend half a lifetime wondering and worrying about what they will do for a living, and oftentimes when they find their niche they fall out of love with the very thing they were once passionate about. This is not the case for Gale Caldwell, owner of Tehachapi Candle Co. The company [...]
Juno’s Burger Phone Sparks Online Sales
TheAge.com.au: Hundreds of hamburger phones are flying off eBay’s virtual shelves after they appeared in the hit comedy Juno. Paul de Carvalho, manager of Fox Searchlight in Australia, said the studio brought 100 Juno-branded phones to Australia for use in promotional giveaways but the product – also sold online without any branding – had since [...]
Would Microsoft-Yahoo! Mean More Competition?
eMarketer.com: On the surface, Microsoft’s $44 billion offer to acquire Yahoo! seems to simplify the US search market share race. The combined firm would be second in online ad revenues to No.1 Google, and ahead of AOL. In 2007, Google rang up nearly $6 billion, while Yahoo! had about $3.4 billion and MSN had $1.4 [...]
It’s Official, People Love Online Videos
Mashable: It would seem people spent quite a lot of time in front of their computers in December watching online videos. According to the latest numbers from Comscore, a total of 141 million unique viewers, an increase of 2.5 million, watched 10,156,199,000 videos. Who’s the king of online video? It’s likely very obvious, but if [...]
Small Biz Turns Out On Super Tuesday
NFIB: Post-primary polling shows small business owners and their employees are a significant voting segment equal to, and larger than, well-established voting blocs like veterans and union members. The National Federation of Independent Business, the nation’s leading small business advocacy association, conducted one national survey and six state-specific surveys Tuesday, polling Democrats in California, Missouri [...]
Fortune Small Business: Q: My partner and I are trying to determine the value of our healthcare IT consulting business. We have been in business for 10 years and have grown consistently. We now have 30 full time employees and revenues between $5 million – $6 million. Since we are a niche services consulting company, [...]
