Archive for March 6th, 2009
From Mompreneur To Mompreneur: MaryPat Kavanagh Makes It Her Business To Help
LA Working Mom’s Examiner: MaryPat Kavanagh could be considered a Mompreneur Extraordinaire. She’s a mother of 4 girls, runs several businesses, and is an advocate for home-based business moms. She does admit that it hasn’t always been easy. Kavanagh, who has extensive experience in marketing and small business, has owned retail companies, restaurants and consulting [...]
KSFY.com: The downtown construction planned for March coupled with our new economy has businesses downtown Sioux Falls wondering what they can do to keep afloat. When Buffaloberries opened up 10 months ago, the economy looked quite different. Nate West lives and work in D.C. His mom Karen Johnson opened up the business. Now she’s asked [...]
Pharmacist Launches Homegrown Economic Stimulus With $2 Bills
Press-Register: A small-town Alabama pharmacist intrigued by the government’s economic stimulus plan decided to launch his own version with $16,000 in $2 bills, and area stores have already felt the impact. Danny Cottrell gave each of his full-time employees $700 and part-timers $300. He asked them to donate 15 percent to charity and spend the [...]
Sketchy Brain Booster: Doodling
Wired: Good news, doodlers: What your colleagues consider a distracting, time-wasting habit may actually give you a leg up on them by helping you pay attention. Asked to remember names they’d heard on a recording, people who doodled while listening had better recall than those who didn’t. This suggests that a slightly distracting secondary task [...]
Digital Journal: The recession hasn’t negatively impacted chocolate sales. Folks will celebrate that. If we continue to act in our best interest, and eat more chocolate, its sales won’t slide; and we’ll be better off because of it. Consumer patterns of spending predict that chocolate confectioners will continue to do well, according to reports. It [...]
What’s A Hulu? The Origins Of High-Tech Names
Mental Floss: Can you imagine if, instead of “TiVo-ing” the latest episode of Lost, you were “Bongo-ing” it? “Bongo” and “Lasso” are just two of the 800 possible names the marketing folks kicked around before settling on TiVo. The final name was cobbled together from “TV” and the engineering acronym “I/O,” which stands for “input/output.” [...]
Older Soldiers Find Niche In New Army
The Miami Herald: As the South Florida real estate market disintegrated and the number of jobless rose, 40-year-old Jorge Gil Muela made a young man’s decision. The five-foot-seven, 235-pound property appraiser walked into a recruiting center in a Kendall strip mall to join the Army. He was told to shed 50 pounds. It’s a small [...]
photo credit: Joshua Rappeneker More and more people are offering their skills online by providing expert advice or performing specific tasks for a fee. The WSJ has more about this interesting new idea and trend: Teresa Estes, a licensed mental-health counselor, watched as business at her private practice dwindled last year. Then the single mother [...]
Controlling Business Travel Costs
photo credit: la_cola_de_mi_perro Some businesses find it necessary to go out of town for business wether it be for a meeting, obtaining new clients, making sales pitches, etc. And all of them know how expensive traveling out of town or state can be with the airplane tickets or train, hotel, food, gas if traveling by [...]
photo credit: Marcus Vegas How can you tell if your employees are truly happy at work? Obviously most would answer this with “ask them”, however, any employee with half a brain and a strong desire to have a job the next day will most definitely always answer “yes I am” whether they are or not. [...]
photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography Evaluating a business idea’s “3 M’s” is a good way to quickly separate the good ideas from the bad. Ask yourself these three questions about each of your ideas: 1. Is there a market? The first step is to determine if there are enough customers willing to buy your product [...]
