Archive for January 29th, 2009
DollarFlyers Are Stealing The Spotlight From Traditional Business Cards
Take your idea of the traditional business card and forget about it. While many business cards get set aside or tossed, DollarFlyers are made to attract attention. With the appearance of either a $5, $20 or $100 bill, these business card flyers look and feel like real money. They aren’t printed on just any paper, [...]
Book Review: 75 Green Businesses You Can Start to Make Money and Make A Difference
Glenn Croston, Ph.D. has written the first in what will undoubtedly be a large genre of books: eco-friendly business ideas. I received a copy of his new book75 Green Businesses You Can Start to Make Money and Make A Difference last week and just finished reading through all 328 pages. Although I don’t live an [...]
What’s Bad for the Post Office Is Good for Postal Entrepreneurs
photo credit: SC Fiasco Facing a potential $6 billion shortfall this year, the U.S. Postal Service has asked Congress to allow it to cut one day of mail delivery and it wouldn’t necessarily be Saturday! In fact, they’re proposing to suspend mail delivery on, of all things, Tuesday. What’s next, no mail delivery in months [...]
photo credit: Hamed Parham Media exposure is one of the best ways of generating attention on your business. Just imagine all the people watching a story about your business on the local news, or hearing something on the radio as they drive to work, or reading about it in the newspaper over breakfast. Pamela Slim [...]
Mom, Churchgoer and Sex Toy Lady?
gloveandmail.com: Patty Brisben is a churchgoing mother of four who has made millions selling sex toys at private in-home gatherings not unlike Tupperware parties. On Super Bowl Sunday, Ms. Brisben will star in Mother Knows Sex, a TLC reality show about Pure Romance, her Cincinnati-based family business that now employs 30,000 consultants across the United [...]
Local Magazine Portrays Ambitious 'Mompreneurs'
Calgary Herald: Kathryn Bechthold first published a 16-page Mompreneur Magazine in June 2006 that was distributed in a few grocery stores in Calgary. Today, the business has a national scope with distribution to more than 50,000 readers. “I wanted to start a business where I could work from home (with a small baby) so I [...]
Are You A Humpty-Dumpty Entrepreneur?
Forbes.com: Just because you’re smart, confident and hardworking doesn’t mean you should run a business. People tell me all the time, “I know I could be a successful entrepreneur but for this one problem”–meaning some specific psychological tick or hang-up. My deflection, which I’ve honed over the years: “Sorry, but I cannot help you.” Then [...]
CNBC: For whatever reason, there aren’t many restrooms on the golf course. And, when you get to a certain age, you really can’t wait 18 holes. Dr. Floyd Seskin, a urologist in the Miami area, said guys used to come in all the time telling him how they would hit their ball in the woods [...]
The Wall Street Journal: For a long time the U.S. dominated overall Internet usage. In the past couple of years this situation has changed. China passed the U.S. as the country with the most internet users this year. Top sites like Yahoo, MSN, Facebook and MySpace all have more users internationally than in the US. [...]
Springwise: It’s probably safe to say that most consumers would like to make their lives more “green,” but the devil lies in the details. Green Home Makeover, which is offered for US $99 is part of the service, one of Green Irene’s local eco-consultants will spend 60 to 90 minutes walking through a consumer’s home [...]
Entrepreneurship is Like Basketball
photo credit: *sean Tim Berry thinks that being an entrepreneur is like playing basketball and makes a good analogy: Jumping viewpoints, like from short- to long-term in an instant, mixing those viewpoints together. That’s like dribbling, keeping your eyes up while managing the ball at your feet.
Inc.: As pink slips pile up nationwide, hiring may seem like a risky – or downright foolish – move for employers. Yet, according to many career counseling experts, if you can afford to, now is a great time to augment your staff. “A lot of great people have been laid off through no fault of [...]
