Archive for April 15th, 2008
Acas Urges UK Small Businesses To Keep Healthy
OnRec.com: Acas is urging small businesses to save money and reduce absenteeism by focusing on ensuring employees are healthy at work. The employment relations service has launched a new guide to help businesses promote and manage a healthy workplace. The launch of the new guide coincides with findings from a radical review of the health [...]
Blogger Mom Rants Her Way To A Hefty Income
Deseret News: Lots of businesses get hate mail, but few owners react the way Heather Armstrong does. She prints out nasty e-mails, puts them in her driveway and drives over them with her car. “That’s the attitude I have,” she said, “and it’s made my life a thousand percent better.” Steeling herself against vitriol is [...]
Mom Turns Product Love Into A Love Of Business
For many a product idea inspires them to create a business. For Melissa Atherholt the love of a product already on the market is what won her over into becoming a mompreneur. Blankets are generally taboo for baby cribs, especially with all the talk about SIDS which is a serious problem for babies. A blanket [...]
Should Online Entrepreneurs Think Long-Term?
This is a guest post by Alan Johnson. It seems that “now” is definitely one of the most commonly-used words among online entrepreneurs these days. You can hear people talking all of the time about what they are doing now, about what results they are currently experiencing, yet a lot of them don’t seem interested [...]
Student Creates Recycled Framing Business
KSUSentinel.com: Nathan Kilpatrick is an art student here at KSU, and has been actively pursuing a framing business. Unlike many others in his situation, Nathan has been resourceful in his endeavor. Instead of purchasing studio room, he has utilized his own garage space. Instead of ordering new framing pieces, he recycled old frame parts. And [...]
From Metal Cutouts to Big Business
DailyMail.com: Bob Keller was just trying to make a little metal cutout to show students in his daughter’s third-grade class the kind of work a mechanical engineer can do when he hit upon an idea for a new business. Keller used a bandsaw to cut a piece of steel in the shape of the state [...]
Solana MedSpas offer a turn-key, non-franchise opportunity for entrepreneurs interested in operating a medical spa facility. Medical spas provide services like massages, facials, aromatherapy, and manicures. A medical spa differs from other day-type spas because the program is operated under the strict supervision of a licensed healthcare professional. Both traditional and non-traditional medicines are used [...]
Traditional Media Team With Niche Sites
USA Today: Looking to snare a larger share of Internet ad dollars, traditional media companies are launching “vertical ad networks” in which they sell ad bundles of space on their sites and on independent sites with complementary content. Forbes.com’s Business and Finance Blog Network, announced last week, includes more than 450 finance-focused blogs, such as [...]
Chasing Happiness As An Entrepreneur
Diane Danielson at Entrepreneur: I picked up Eric Weiner’s book, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World, because I needed a break from business books. I figured that, as an entrepreneur, business is my life most of the time, so a little insight into happiness might be a [...]
Web Serials Find Their Niche vs. TV
MediaShift: Everyone’s a producer — or so it seems with the availability of video-making tools for just about anyone these days. With the arrival of cheaper, more compact equipment and the rapid of advance of technology in this area, it’s possible to shoot a pretty good quality video with a small digital camera or even [...]
USB Office Keeps You Productive
AppScout: You’ve just grabbed a cup of coffee at a local cyber-café after a long morning meeting, and you remember that you owe your boss a progress report before noon. She likes it in PDF format so she can publish it to the company portal, but you’re miles from the office. You have the report [...]
Gas Prices Threatening Small Biz Owners
ABCnews: Pinched by rising gas prices, florist Diane Alonso now spends as much time planning her delivery routes as she does creating her floral designs. “My driver has a route. We don’t have him here all day long, just on call to make a delivery,” said Alonso, who owns Flowers By Diane in Hoboken, N.J. [...]
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