Archive for October 2008
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money #13
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum. Part 13 Be Systematic Men should be systematic in their business. A person who does business by rule, having a time and place for everything, doing his work promptly, will accomplish twice as much and [...]
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money #12
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum. Part 12 Do Not Scatter Your Powers Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until your experience shows that you should abandon it. A constant hammering [...]
Content Spooling Helps Websites Popularize Using Articles
Great content can make a great website, but it can also help create a way for businesses to promote themselves too. That is where the Content Spooling Network comes in. Not many websites realize the potential which is held within article distribution. Those who do see that potential find themselves not having enough time to [...]
KOMU 8: An expo Thursday showcased mothers who run their own businesses from home. Suzanne Becket is one mom who uses her creativity to make a few bucks on the side. Beckett runs Anna’s Attic, a boutique that sells everything from bows to bags. Ironically, she named the business after her daughter, even though it [...]
PakNak Charms Their Way Into The Life Of Children
As each child grows up, the next generation seems to find new fun ways to craft up something they’d enjoy. Although the PakNak is mom-invented, it’s definitely a product that shows inspiration from the latest generation of children looking for a way to dress up their stuff. So what is a PakNak? Using the velco [...]
Giveaway Overview: The Secrets To Sales Mastery & Halo Secretarial Services
This week has been a busy week with two new giveaways being posted. If you own a business, and your success depends on sales, then you might find Kevin Boyle’s book, The Secrets To Sales Mastery, to be something that you should place on your wish list. However, if you are a lawyer and you’ve [...]
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money #11
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum. Part 11 Let Hope Predominate But Be Not Too Visionary Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain success, and therefore they keep changing from [...]
The Wall Street Journal: When Larry Levine helped prepare divorce papers for a client a few years ago, he got paid in mackerel. Once the case ended, he says, “I had a stack of macks.” Levine and his client were prisoners in California’s Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex. Like other federal inmates around the country, they [...]
New York Entrepreneur Sells City Tap Water
WalletPop: As counter-intuitive as it may seem, New York tap water is incredibly fresh and pure. It comes from a reservoir in upstate New York and, as it wends its way to the city, it is filtered, processed, cleaned, and purified. Entrepreneur Craig Zucker has begun bottling and selling New York City tap water. After [...]
Springwise: In a world populated by gadgets with increasingly varied and complex capabilities, there stand out a lone few that do just one thing really well. The iPod is one classic example, and earlier this month another was released that may even have the potential to attain as devoted a consumer following, if the early [...]
For Entrepreneurs, Opportunity Still Knocks
smSmallBusiness.com: Launching or maintaining a small business in this environment isn’t easy. Access to start-up or growth capital is more limited these days. And many business owners expect increased economic hardships to come. According to the Buffalo Grove, Ill., management consulting firm International Profit Associate’s Small Business Research Board, the Small Business Confidence Index conducted [...]
Highs And Horrors Of Home-Based Bizs
Forbes.com: No matter what kind of business you choose to run, or where you choose to run it, making it on your own steam demands an abundance of forethought, tenacity, discipline and commitment. And, to be charitable, most people don’t have it. For those contemplating the move home, beware these red flags: • You have [...]
Vietnamese Shoemaker Takes Over Father’s Business
Vietnamenet: Shoemaker Thai Van Anh Hung says his father had foreseen that the traditional trade of making wooden clogs, which had lasted for more than 100 years in Binh Duong Province’s Binh Nham village, was doomed to extinction, and had been proven right in the eighties. More than half the workshop owners in Binh Nham [...]
Entrepreneur Uses Virtual Kisses
Sacbee: Local entrepreneur Mark Otero isn’t flirting with success. He’s found it with “Kiss,” a new Internet tool that allows people to search popular Web sites like MySpace or Hi5 and plant virtual smooches on people they like. Otero is the UC Davis business grad who launched the profitable Mochii Yogurt shop in midtown just [...]
Mom Takes Paralegal Services To A Whole New Level
Since the beginning of the work-at-home mom boom, thousands of women have carved out their own niche in the business world. No matter how many stories have been shared, they have never been the same. Sure these women wanted to be home with their children, but as an individual each woman found her own unique [...]
Mom Takes Paralegal Services To A Whole New Level
Since the beginning of the work-at-home mom boom, thousands of women have carved out their own niche in the business world. No matter how many stories have been shared, they have never been the same. Sure these women wanted to be home with their children, but as an individual each woman found her own unique [...]
Twisting Balloons Into Career Change
Metro: Debbie Stevens twists balloons to entertain kids. But she could capture the imagination of little ones long before she knew how to make a balloon dog or lion. The stay-at-home mom ran a homecare back in the mid 1980s. She became known around her neighbourhood in Bowmanville, Ont., for her storytelling and ability to [...]
Yahoo! Finance: WritingRoom.com — an online community for aspiring writers to engage, encourage and appraise one another’s work — announces the 3rd place winner of their Author Launch Contest, Amanda Crum. Amanda Crum, a freelance writer from Lexington, Kentucky, unleashes her debut novel “The Fireman’s Daughter,” a mysterious tapestry of familial loss, intrigue and illusion. [...]
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money #10
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum. Part 10 Learn Something Useful Every man should make his son or daughter learn some trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes–of being rich to-day and poor to-morrow–they may have something [...]
I just posted this comment on the South Carolina Startup Blog, but I thought it would be useful to post here. In response to: Quite a few [of the business ideas that Dane profiles] are franchise-based, which may not fit your definition of a startup idea (lets face it, a franchise is a system to [...]
Her Prized Invention – The “Dripstik”
KPVI6.com: It started out as a simple idea, and has received a huge response. Mecinna Price is an inventor responsible for several inventions, including the popular Dripstik. Dripstik is a device that holds your ice cream cone or popsicle, and keeps it from making a sticky mess. Mecinna says she came up with the idea [...]
Niche Can Help You Survive Tough Times
Herald Tribune: Mortgage brokers generally work on commission and rarely get paid salaries. Yet mortgage broker Jack Sandelman has managed to survive — even thrive. “I’ve become sort of a de facto specialist on foreign national purchase transactions, all to Canadians.” Specializing in the financing of foreigners who buy homes in Southwest Florida is the [...]
Mashable: Sometimes, all it takes is a simple and seemingly stupid idea. Today I was alerted to Web 2.0’s version of the Pet Rock, a site called “Umbrella Today?“. The site takes the simplicity and utility of sites like “Is it down for everyone or just me?” and the question we all really want to [...]
Quit Your Day Job: MewPaperArts
Etsy: Alissa Sampogna had signed up to sell on Etsy just over a year ago in February of 2007. Within the span of a year, Alissa not only set up shop, MewPaperArts, but she was able to quit her cubicle day job. She is now her own boss and living her dream of running her [...]
Is Franchise The Right Biz For You?
The Wall Street Journal: It’s a common scenario: Someone walks into a chain restaurant, loves the food and ambiance and suddenly thinks, “I should own one of these.” It’s tempting to pick a franchise based on personal experiences or love of the product. But the fact that you’re smitten with the business or what it [...]
PR.com: According to the US Department of Labor, 70% of all working women are mothers. Working mothers who have one foot planted firmly in the home and the other in the workplace wear many different shoes during the course of a week. And to Bucks County writer and working mom Kristie Finnan, that challenge is [...]
Celebrity Mom Jennie Garth Helps Design Eco-Friendly Bag
BusinessWire: Understanding the challenges of balancing motherhood and living “green,” actress Jennie Garth has teamed with the makers of Green Works natural cleaners to design an environmentally friendly cotton tote bag, complete with her signature. “The Green Bag by Jennie Garth” is made from 100 percent recycled cotton and is reusable. The designer bag is [...]
Bishops Takes Out The Traditional Barbershop And Brings It Into The Next Generation
If you intend to break into the hair business, then you will need to bring something unique. After all, it will be the business that stands out from the crowd that will bring in the business it needs to stay alive. That has not been a problem for Bishops Barbershop. Leo Rivera, as the founder [...]
Credit Crunch: It’s Not All Bad News
The credit crunch isn’t doom and gloom, in fact there some good news for small businesses. Some specialized banks, especially small business banks, see an opportunity in the tightening credit market. Sterling National Bank is running ads in The Wall Street Journal asking, “What credit crunch?” in an attempt to gain market share from other [...]
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money #9
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum. Part 9 Don’t Get Above Your Business Young men after they get through their business training, or apprenticeship, instead of pursuing their avocation and rising in their business, will often lie about doing nothing. They [...]
Cool Invention Helps Players Bounce Back
San Francisco Chronicle: Players for the San Francisco 49ers trotted off the field during Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions and grabbed for the requisite towels and Gatorade. A few went for something else on the bench, slipping their hands into a coffee-pot-like contraption that stops cramping and overheating. The device, called the Glove and [...]
Web Site Lets Businesses Expose Deadbeat Customers
The Wall Street Journal: It’s not the nicest thing to do. But for small-business owners who are having difficulty collecting receivables from their customers, especially in this tight business climate, this is an extreme option that just might work. They’re turning to a complaint-and-resolution Web site called Uradeadbeat.com, which seeks to make nonpaying customers or [...]
The Daily Telegraph: Australia’s ageing population will create enormous opportunities for small businesses involved in these areas, finds the inaugural Business & Population Monitor from business advisory firm PKF, with Access Economics. It found that as well as the ageing population, these sectors would also gain from Australia’s rising immigration and increased fertility rates. It [...]
Man Invents No-Spill ‘Origami’ Cup
BlountToday.com: A healthy curiosity and a truck with no cup holders has led a Louisville man to build what may be the proverbial “better mousetrap.” Phil Abbott has invented a lid-less cup that he says doesn’t leak or spill, and has no plastic top to pop off just when it’s the most inconvenient. Abbott, 57, [...]
Why We Overbid For Old Junk On eBay
arstechnica: Economists have known for years that people tend to overbid on items up for auction. But experts did not know the reason behind our seemingly irrational behavior. Economists and neuroscientists from New York University teamed up to study this classic economic problem, and they published their results in Science. Using brain imaging along with [...]
