Archive for February 2nd, 2009
Organic Vending Takes On The Vending World With Healthy Food Choices
In a world that is going green and promoting healthy eating, it’s no surprise that organic is yet another trend that many people are starting to follow. With their launch in 2005, Organic Vending has been on top of it with their accessible, healthy snacks. In very little time, Organic Vending has moved from the [...]
It May Be Time… to Start a Business?
I didn’t catch all of the Super Bowl commercials, but this one from CareerBuilder.com accurately describes how I felt before I started my own business. How about you?
photo credit: Josiah Mackenzie I never thought I’d see something like this, especially from an Ivy League university like Harvard: The fact is, the old-fashioned model of post-secondary education in the U.S. is pretty much broken. Instead of preparing students for real-life, three-squares-and-a roof-over-your-head jobs, too many colleges charge massive tuition fees to impart the [...]
Eau Claire Mom Discovers The Benefits Of Cloth Diapers
Leader-Telegram Online: When Amber Richards was pregnant with her now-17-month-old daughter, Evelyn, she never gave a thought to the possibility of using cloth diapers. “I was thinking white cloth and pins, but there’s been such a change. I didn’t know there were modern cloth diapers. They are so easy,” Richards said. When Evelyn was 3 [...]
Mompreneur Started Business To Help Pay Expenses From Her Son's Surgery
The-Daily-Record.com: A mother’s love knows no bounds. That’s no less true for Jennifer Waddell, who’s sacrificed countless hours of sleep in caring for her firstborn, Samuel. Now 4 years old, her son underwent a 15-hour surgery to remove a dermoid cyst in August 2007; the cyst stretched from his sinuses into the lining of his [...]
Sell Boring Stuff that People Actually Need
Jim Flowers of VT KnowledgeWorks has a favorite old Doonesbury cartoon framed and conspicuously posted on a prominent wall of his business. The strip is so good that I’ve done the same, and you might want to, too! Mike asks Bernie, the business mogul, what he is working on. Bernie replies that he had previously [...]
Pilot Earns His Wings As An Inventor
Inventors Digest: When Rick Foreman earned his flying wings some 13 years ago, he didn’t realize his journey would lead him to take flight as an inventor. Pilots are required to carry fresh batteries to power hand-held devices such as GPS, flashlights, transceivers, headsets and intercoms. Typically, Foreman would keep batteries in a small baggie [...]
Bizs Turn To Independent Contractors
The Associated Press: As the recession forces small businesses across the country to cut expenses, some are making a dramatic shift — they’re laying off employees and using independent contractors instead. Back in 2006, Ron Gold had only full-time employees in his advertising agency, but business began to slip and he began using freelancers. Last [...]
photo credit: Libertinus No matter what your business, however, excess inventory is something to be avoided. It costs you money in extra overhead, debt service on loans to purchase the excess inventory, additional personal property tax on unsold inventory and increased insurance costs. Controlling your inventory is one of the easiest ways to increase profits. [...]
SeattlePI: Carol Lavinthal, who sews children’s clothes in her home, faced an unhappy choice. She could spend thousands of dollars to comply with a sweeping new federal law — or she could become an outlaw. She was braced for a Feb. 10 law that would have required her Just Kidd’n business to stringently test for [...]
Better Reading Material for your Customers
photo credit: Manchester Library One of the easiest ways to stay in front of your customers is to provide an email newsletter. Try telling a story of success about your business. Share your expertise, because you are an expert in your field, so show that you know what your talking about and doing. Feature and [...]
The New York Times: CafePress, a Web site that lets users create and sell custom goods, announced a partnership with Sellit to help online retailers peddle their wares in multiple places around the Web. The tool, called the Sellit ShopBot, allows CafePress’s 6.5 million Web merchants to build a bite-size version of their CafePress shop [...]
photo credit: kevindooley One very effective mode of advertising is in the business sign. These can be big, small or in between, and they pack a lot of power! But having the wrong business sign will also pack a lot of the wrong power. You don’t want the wrong message 10 feet tall on the [...]
