Archive for July 22nd, 2008
Ktva: A young Eagle River woman is making her mark in the business world. In Chelsey Homan’s Eagle River home a plate of goodies greets you on the table. But beware: they may look good, even smell good, but these special treats are really just for dogs.For the past year, 19-year-old Chelsey has been cooking [...]
Tips for a Successful Family Business
HeraldNet: So, you love being with your family and you love the thought of operating a small business. Why not combine the two, and create a family-operated small business? Mixing family and business can lead to success. The combination can also challenge the strongest of families. We talked to the owners of several family businesses [...]
Pay-Per-Click Advertising For Peanuts
smallbiztechnology.com: Getting started in online advertising can be a bit intimidating for a small business owner – there is just so much information out there and so many choices, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and end up doing nothing. However, starting small and taking your time can still have a big payoff. When lifelong peanut [...]
More Fathers Consider Being Stay At Home Dads
The Open Press: As millions feel the “middle class crunch,” more and more fathers are considering becoming stay at home dads, or work at home dads. More and more fathers have made the decision to become stay at home dads. There is no single set of reasons – they are as varied as the fathers [...]
Entrepreneur Watches Web Address Value Skyrocket
Real Business: 1E chief executive Sumir Karayi negotiated the sale of his company’s rare two-character website address from a bloke in Hong Kong for the bargain-basement price of $600. Only a couple of years later, the address was worth around $750,000. Karayi says: “At the time we founded the business, there were some websites available [...]
Those with a sweet tooth anywhere in the UK or Ireland do not have to look too hard for a sweet business. Snack in the Box is a franchise that gives people two options to own a business through them. The self service box or the vending opportunity. With each opportunity they give you the [...]
Bring out the artist in you, your friends or your children. Paint-your-own-pottery studios are becoming more and more popular because it promotes creativity, family bonding and the art of having fun. Of course Mother’s Day has come and gone, but could you imagine painting a vase with a personalized message and filling it with beautiful [...]
The Wall Street Journal: Trademark registration is pretty straightforward. Many businesses can file an application online in less than 90 minutes, without a lawyer’s help, says Rich Stim, a San Francisco intellectual-property attorney. The simplest way to register is on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Web site. Before completing the online registration form, check [...]
Outside The Beltway? Out Of Luck Winning Contracts
Associated Press: Small firms that want to do business with the federal government must keep three cardinal rules in mind: Location, location, location. Companies within 50 miles of the White House earn nearly $1 of every $3 in federal contracts given to small firms, The Associated Press has found. And small companies competing for federal [...]
'MommyBloggers' Turn Their Hobby Into Profits
SFGate: Heather Armstrong’s blog got her fired. Six years later, it pays her family’s mortgage. Armstrong, a 33-year-old Salt Lake City mother, is one of thousands of “mommybloggers” who are finding there is money to be made in writing about the traditionally uncompensated work of child rearing. Armstrong, who has chronicled her life on Dooce.com [...]
Fort Irwin Entrepreneurs Find Business Online
Desert Dispatch: When the commissary at Fort Irwin started pushing people to go green and use reusable grocery bags, Genevieve Campbell came up with an idea. This Fort Irwin mother of two started making custom bags as an alternative to the plain cloth ones sold by the commissary. She opened a store, SweetGroceryBags, online last [...]
Earn Money Being A Stay-At-Home Mom
Sun.Star Baguio: For those women who need to earn money for sheer survival, often the question of availability of time is irrelevant. Women too from poor families invariably try to find some work or the other. In these cases, it is seen that household enterprises and micro-enterprise becomes an attractive option, if opportunity is available. [...]
Mom Empowers Other Through The Well Mom
As mothers, many of us forget to take time for ourselves. Whether it is to practice a little yoga, or make sure to eat well, sometimes we end up putting ourselves last and that can really wear us down. I recently found out about Heather Cabot through Style Cafe Moms Featured WAHM and thought she [...]
If you’re from the New England area, chances are you know of D’Angelo Grilled Sandwiches. With 40 years experience in the sandwich industry, and franchising for half of that, they have grown to become a very well known brand. So why would someone want to franchise with D’Angelo? If you’re a fan of the Boston [...]
Express Employment Professionals
Founded in 1983, Express Employment Professionals is a professional staffing and HR services firm for businesses. They help businesses find temporary as well as contract staff. Two years after opening for business they took the next step into franchising. To date they have approximately 600 franchised offices through out the US, Canada, Australia and South [...]
Be Wary Of Online Work-At-Home Offers
Taylor Daily Press: How would you like to earn $600 a week while working part-time in the comfort of your own home? Sound too good to be true? Internet employment sites now feature lots of postings for “virtual assistants” (home-based staff) but some of these offers aren’t legit. The virtual assistant industry is now being [...]
Off The Map: Frank Giotto, who owns a number of successful companies, does a lot of business travel. He noted that in recent years there has been a great increase in the number of airline delays and flight cancellations, many of which resulted from security measures after the events of 9/11. Adding to the problem [...]
The Wall Street Journal: Karen Ash is about to take a weeklong Japanese vacation. She’ll buy postcards and souvenirs at a traditional Japanese market. She’ll admire bonsai plants and view Japanese films. She’ll eat ramen, ordering in Japanese. And she’ll never leave the Bronx. Ms. Ash, a legal assistant who lives in that New York [...]
Google Trends Reveals Which Tech Trends Are Hot (Or Not)
Small Business Computing: Google Trends, a kind of a search engine within a search engine, reveals the popularity – or unpopularity – of a given search keyword. Its results reflect mega-patterns of what people are thinking about (if you accept the thesis that Internet searches equal the public’s level of interest). The data goes back [...]
WebWire: 19th century inventor Nicola Tesla has become an unwitting savior to struggling motorists. Water fuel technology based on Tesla’s early experiments is now enabling drivers to reduce fuel costs utilizing hydrogen from water. Thanks largely to the internet, this previously suppressed technology is now becoming more widely known and adopted. The technology works by [...]
