Archive for March 17th, 2008
Small Business Women Honored At Book Launch
Media-Newswire.com: Small Business Minister Margaret Quirk will launch a book on Monday honouring the achievements of 12 Western Australian businesswomen. The book, ‘Women in Business: Twelve Inspiring Stories’ is an initiative of the Small Business Development Corporation ( SBDC ) and is designed to raise the profile of women business operators through the State. Ms [...]
Magazine Honors Franchiser SeekingSitters
Tulsa World: SeekingSitters, a Tulsa-based baby-sitter referral service, is among several enterprises that Working Mother magazine has named to its 2008 list of Best Women-Owned Companies. “We’re a working mother-founded company, and that’s of big importance for us. As we grow, all of our franchises are owned by working mothers,” said Adrienne Kallweit, the company’s [...]
Work-At-Home Scam Prevention Week March 17-23, 2008
With all the ads available about different business opportunities, it’s important to be able to figure out which ones really are legitimate and which ones should be avoided. Leslie Truex, a work-at-home mom, is combating against the ignorance many people have about the most common work at home scams by creating scam prevention week, which [...]
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article today about the importance of a good name for small business. Now, on the face of it, I completely disagree with this notion, as I explained in my post 20 Things Not to Do Before Starting a Business: 12. Don’t waste time picking a business name. As [...]
Redefining The Stay At Home Mom
Naples Daily News: This entrepreneur has an unusual schedule: She gets a lot done during nap time. Maureen Ramos balances her time caring for 8-year-old twin boys and a 23-month-old daughter and working on two home-based businesses — Corporate Greeting Cards, a greeting card marketing business, and Samica Bags, a reusable grocery bag retailer. As [...]
The Bingo Bugle is a monthly tabloid newspaper designed, written and published for Bingo players. It is produced and printed in over 70 markets throughout the US and Canada with a circulation of 900,000 copies each month. According to the company: It’s played on every continent and in nearly every country on earth. One day [...]
The Birds And The Bees, Explained
Many parents find themselves a little tongue tied when their children start to ask those questions that we all dread. Those questions about where babies come from and the even more specific ones to follow after that. One mom set out to help answer those questions. Amy Lang has a long past history in sexual [...]
Starting a First Time Fitness Business
Kerrie DiGiovanni and Derek DiGiovanni decided to start their own business CoachMeFit, with very little business exprience. Kerrie is a stay at home mom, while Derek worked as a certified trainer and PE teacher. Freep.com: CoachMeFit provides personalized fitness training in a semi-private setting. Unlike many fitness centers where people are just members, at CoachMeFit [...]
Internet Influences In-Store Sales
LocalNa8ion.com: Every business can apply the rules that make eCommerce sites more effective to make more local sales of products or services. There’s a lesser known secret about how your web site can drive offline sales that eCommerce practices make more clear: the secret is that good web sites influence almost $3.5 dollars of in [...]
Best Time to Buy College Property?
Yahoo News: A year ago, Jeff Shea began buying up rental properties around the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he had only recently graduated with a business major. Shea, 23, who lives in Chicago, owns three rental homes near campus, including a four-bedroom house he bought for $138,000 and rents to four students [...]
LifeClever.com: This is a nifty one, simple to implement and, in my experience, surprisingly effective. Set your watch (or cellphone) to beep every night at 10 o’clock. When your watch goes off, get up that instant and prepare for morning. Whether you’re in the middle of watching a DVD, rushing to meet a work deadline, [...]
5 Things To Consider When Getting a New Domain Name
Shai Coggins on JustMakeMoneyOnline.com : So, you want to buy some new domains. It may seem simple enough to choose one that you like and go. But, some folks take some basic things in to consideration when purchasing one: Branded vs Keyword-Rich com vs .net vs. others With or without hyphens? How long is too [...]
Fortune Small Business: Q: I have a product that I’m interested in marketing toward incoming college students. I would like to introduce them to my service before they show up to campus. How can I get the lists that contain addresses of incoming freshmen, or current students? A: Marketing to college students can be a [...]
