Archive for December 19th, 2008
If Comedy Is King, Then ZUG Is The Kingdom
Comedy is its own special medicine. It is amazing what one laugh can do. If one laugh can work miracles, I can only imagine how healthy the people who read and contribute to ZUG are. There is a lot more to comedy than many of us know. We might enjoy laughing but what makes us [...]
MSNBC: Margarita McClure found that when her first baby was born, she had a lot of extra time on her hands. “For those first few months, the baby doesn’t do much,” she recalls. So she filled the hours with a project that eventually became a business earning 2008 sales of more than $1.4 million. In [...]
Customer Demand Drives Mom Back Into Business
Naperville Sun: The news about businesses closing has become almost cliché these days, along with updates about the sputtering economy. But like the biblical Lazarus, one Naperville woman’s business has returned from the dead. Back by popular demand, Tracy Paulson, 42, owner of Creating Your Style, reopened her store during the first week of November [...]
Twitter Makes Dell $1 Million In Revenue
Venture Beat: Everyone loves talking about Twitter’s business model — because there isn’t one yet, and they’ll keep talking about it until there is one. But it’s becoming more clear that while a business model is of course important, Twitter is perhaps the perfect example of a company that can afford to take its time [...]
The Best Biz Books of 2008 – The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google
Fast Company: You’ve heard about cloud computing, but Nick Carr helps you understand it in a way you haven’t before. Using the shift to the electric grid at the turn of the last century as an analogy, Carr lays out a surprising future of utility computing and its ramifications for business and society. Photo by [...]
Inventor’s Digest: Had a good conversation with serial inventor and Edison Nation regular Roger Brown this morning. I interviewed him for a cover piece we’re doing on kitchen innovations in March. He’s got four new products licensed for later in ’09. He also mentioned that a Canadian firm asked him if he had any camping [...]
Market Yourself Inexpensively During Holidays
Rhonda Abrams – Gannett News Service: For years, I’ve advised readers to make the most of this time of year, and get out there and market. Yes, “marketing” took the form of parties, gifts, and cards — but that’s still marketing — a way to build and enhance a relationship with customers and referral sources. [...]
Can Entrepreneurs Fix The Job Loss Problem?
Small Business Trends: Last month was a very bad month for jobs; the economy lost 533,000 jobs, the worst monthly decline since 1974. People often talk about the importance of entrepreneurs as job creators in this country. So I got to thinking: how much additional entrepreneurial activity would have been necessary to avoid these job [...]
