Archive for March 19th, 2008
Small Business Owners Neglect The Power Of A Good Website
Vnunet.com: Small business owners are guilty of “shocking” levels of website neglect, according to new research. Cambridge-based web design and marketing firm Netflare conducted a survey at the end of 2007 covering 19 small business sectors. The company discovered that 23 per cent of websites looked at had not been updated since their launch, making [...]
Mompreneur Launches "The Mogul Mom" Coaching by Email Program
PRWeb: When her newborn daughter Grace managed to escape every swaddling blanket known to motherkind, and still wasn’t sleeping well at four months old, sleep-deprived Rhode Island mom Heather Allard decided not to take it lying down, bleary eyes wide open. She got creative, started sketching, and Swaddleaze – called the “original 2-in-1 swaddler and [...]
Madrid Seeks U.S. Entrepreneurs
This guest post is by Aysha Griffin. When New York City-based online marketing firm, Greater Than One, an Entrepreneur “Hot 500″ fastest growing company, decided to expand into the European Market in 2007, the principles chose Madrid, Spain for its headquarters. The government of Spain, and particularly the capital city of Madrid, has positioned itself [...]
Busy Mom Finds Time To Run A Home-Decor Franchise
Arizona Daily Star: How can a mom with four boys find the time to run a business? Penny Peterson can answer that question. She discovered a franchise with the motto “2 Days a Week, 2 Good to be True” and was sold. Peterson, 36, now co-owns Real Deals on Home Décor with her husband, Jeff, [...]
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 [...]
Small Biz Success Story: Pink Cake Box
search engine land: I’m a big believer that learning from the successful examples of others is often the best way to grow a small business, and hopefully you’ll agree. Today, I’ll introduce you to a small business that’s baking up a storm via its web site, a blog, public relations, and social media. Pink Cake [...]
Start an In-Home Day Care Business
After running a successful daycare business for over nine years, Jane Brewer decided to bring her experience online and write a book so that other women can benefit from running their own business. I’ve read her book, Starting A Day Care Business, and if I was going to start my own day care, I’d definitely [...]
Virtual Assistant Tops Work-At-Home Biz List
WebWire: When a Kansas City woman sought advice from The Today Show on supplementing her household income with a part-time job, Today’s Money 911 reporter Jean Chatzky topped her recommended work at home list with Virtual Assistant. Who would have thought? Finally, Virtual Assistants are gaining the respect they deserve. Virtual assistants around the globe [...]
Glasses Can Find Your Keys, iPod
The National Ledger: This is an invention that can finally help. Are you always losing your car keys around the house? And once you spend fifteen minutes finally locating those where is your iPod so you can jam out on some tunes on your trip? It happens to everyone and you can’t just call it [...]
The Wall Street Journal: Home and small businesses are a $427 billion-a-year industry and if you’ve been planning to launch your own venture now may seem like the right time to do it. But before you go into business, try to convince yourself why you shouldn’t, says Paul Stappas, founder of Bookkeeping Administration Management, a [...]
Workers Struggle With Data Overload
Inc.: Information overload is pushing workers to the brink and cutting into workplace productivity, a recent survey by LexisNexis shows. The survey, which polled 650 employees in a variety of industries, found 68 percent of respondents wished they could spend less time organizing information and more time using it. Another 85 percent said not finding [...]
