Archive for April 22nd, 2008
The Coach To Australian Business Owners
Franchisewire: Katherine Doe has joined ActionCOACH, the world’s number one business coaching company, with responsibility for clients in Victoria, Australia. ActionCOACH leverages career experience, community involvement, and entrepreneurial spirit to deliver the company’s proven sales, marketing, and business management systems to small business owners looking to earn more and work less. Founded in 1993 on [...]
Earth-Friendly And Mom Owned – The Polka Dot Bumblebee
Since today is Earth Day, I thought it might be fun to mention an earth-friendly business. They don’t specialize in “green” products, but the way Veronica runs her business is what makes it that way. The office supplies used for her business are recycled. She also uses as little packaging as possible to help save [...]
CNNMoney.com: It’s not hard for Rebecca Matthias to remember a time when maternity clothes weren’t exactly fashion-forward. The founder and CEO of Mothers Work – the Philadelphia company that owns maternity-wear chains A Pea in the Pod, Mimi Maternity, and Motherhood Maternity – was driven to start her business when she was pregnant with her [...]
Australian Commission Investigating eBay’s Paypal Plan
Reserve Bank could scuttle eBay’s plans – BizTech – Technology – theage.com.au eBay’s plan to force all of its users on to PayPal faces opposition from the Reserve Bank, which is considering weighing in to the issue.The Central Bank has long called for buyers and sellers to have as much choice as possible in what [...]
Wisconsin Selling Unclaimed Property on eBay
State Auctioning Unclaimed Items On eBay – News Story – WISC Madison A state auction is offering the chance to purchase its unclaimed property on eBay.Thirty-seven items went on the auction block at noon on Monday. The auction lasts 10 days, WISC-TV reported. Under Wisconsin law, after five years of inactivity, financial institutions must hand [...]
Get Your F-14 Fighter Jet Parts On eBay
High Bidders Get F-14 Parts on the Web GAO study finds sensitive military items for sale on eBay and Craigslist.On any random day, more than 114 million items are listed for sale on eBay. More than 6 million new items are listed every day through 39 trading platforms worldwide. Craigslist, while smaller in scope and [...]
Is Small Business Week Important For You?
Money.Cnn.com: Monday marks start of National Small Business Week (NSBW), a five-day event intended to spotlight the accomplishments of America’s entrepreneurs and draw policymakers’ attention to the challenges confronting them. But after more than 50 years, the annual Small Business Administration-run event still remains off the radar of many small business owners. Started in 1963 [...]
Former Flight Attendant Bagging Profits
Entrepreneur: After 15 years as a flight attendant for United Airlines, Denise Bein was offered a five-year leave of absence following 9/11. In that time, Bein raised her children and began to toy with a new kind of handy bag for the kitchen. In fact, QuickSeals started out of Bein’s own experience as a mother. [...]
EBay shares fall on UK auction listings drop | Markets | Hot Stocks | Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Shares of eBay Inc (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) fell as much as 4 percent after the company saw a sharp decline in new auction listings in Britain, its third-largest market, Deutsche Bank said in research note [...]
“Small Business Works for America” YouTube Contest
NFIB: Aspiring filmmakers can win $5,000 in cash and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., in a new “Small Business Works for America” video contest sponsored by America’s leading small business association, the National Federation of Independent Business. Video artists simply need to create a 30-second clip that answers the question “Why does small business [...]
eBay Not Allowing Sellers To Post Negative Feedback
eBay hits back at boycotters – Retail & Leisure – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com eBay has hit back at a proposed seller boycott over changes to the site that will mean sellers won’t be able to post negative feedback.From May, eBay is banning sellers from posting negative feedback in order to avoid [...]
13-year-old Entrepreneur Starts Hot Dog Biz
The Duxbury Reporter: Most youths want to spend their summer vacation lounging at the beach, hanging out with their friends or playing outside, but not 13-year-old Jake Genereux. This summer, he is beginning his first business venture — selling hot dogs at the town pier. Jake’s mother Wendy said he has been an entrepreneur since [...]
Invention Puts Seniors Back On Bikes
digtriad: A program at UNC Greensboro is giving students hands-on and bike-on experience, and seniors too. Twice a week, students in the Health and Human Performance program visit residents at the WhiteStone: A Masonic and Eastern Star Community. They team up with the home’s activity department to implement a Duet biking program. Students and activity [...]
Entrepreneur: Last year, we told you about the microlending site, Kiva.org. Now, the site–which helps developing-world entrepreneurs achieve their business dreams–has partnered up with Advanta to up the ante. It’s called KivaB4B, and through it, customers can make small loans to Kiva entrepreneurs using Advanta business credit cards. Once a grant has been issued by [...]
WikiHow: The celebration of Earth Day on April 22nd began in the United States in 1970 and was the brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson, who had long pondered about finding a way to “put the environment into the political ‘limelight’ once and for all” (his words). There are actually two Earth Day celebrations (the other [...]
