Archive for March 9th, 2009
Men’s Clothing Is Turning Back The Clock With Papa Soul
While this isn’t the first time I’ve mentioned clothing that was vintage, or vintage inspired, Papa Soul is the first business I’ve interviewed in this category that caters to men. By creating a balance of truly vintage pieces and the brands of today, they are able to offer men a sense of fashion that is [...]
Presidential Help For Small Businesses
6abc.com: It’s just really scary right now for all kinds of businesses. I mean I see em come, I see em go.” Angie Brown knows how hard it is to see them go a year before she opened “Soul” restaurant in Chestnut Hill, she owned and operated a restaurant in Mt. Airy, it closed in [...]
Mompreneurs: Balancing Baby And Business
The Hindu Business Line: When Alex Tutwiler, 32, a mechanical engineer, gave birth to her first child she cut down on her work hours from full time to part time so that she could spend more time with her baby. Two years later, when pregnant with her second child, Alex realised how complicated her life [...]
How Do URL Shorteners Make Money?
Have you ever wondered how URL shortening websites like TinyURL, bit.ly and is.gd make money? Me too. There’s an enlightening conversation taking place on Hacker News about just that subject. The short is, they don’t make any money. They don’t. To be honest the majority of url shorteners don’t make any money at all. I [...]
(Not Quite) Earning A Living On Twitter
The Wall Street Journal: When 25-year-old Justin Rockwell was laid off from his job as a Web developer last fall, he began scrounging for freelance gigs. He also found himself spending a lot of time on Twitter, answering Web development problems for fellow Twitterers. Eventually, Rockwell realized there was a market for his services on [...]
photo credit: Olof S Consumers’ conversations have changed. What’s important to them has changed. The stories of their lives have changed and it seems like no one is paying attention. For example: If consumers are talking about eating out less often, then having “fun” at Applebee’s doesn’t seem like it fits (especially if mom or [...]
photo credit: antwerpenR Once people believe others are coming in to sell them, they recoil, put up defenses and begin to rehearse reasons they don’t need whatever it is you’re selling. They may disguise this or do it under the surface, but it’s there. Chalk it up to a basic human emotion: We don’t want [...]
Vending Machine Dispenses Free Samples
Springwise: Created by Belgian marketing and design agency Fosfor, the Boobox is a prototype for a stand-alone machine that distributes product samples. Consumers interested in getting one simply send a free SMS, in exchange for which they are given an activation code. That, in turn, gives them access to the sample. Unlike most vending machines, [...]
25,000 iPhone Apps – Pricing And Popularity Trends
Paid Content: In January, Apple announced it had launched over 15,000 applications on its iPhone. In two months, that number has already jumped to 25,000. VentureBeat used public information and findings from 148Apps to analyze pricing and popularity trends. • The most popular pricepoint is $0.99, not free. (Interesting!) Some 10,274 applications cost $0.99 versus [...]
Glimmer of Hope for Job Creation?
NFIB: William C. Dunkelberg, chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Business, the nation’s leading small business organization, issued the following statement on February job numbers based on NFIB’s monthly economic survey. “There was a decline in average employment per firm of 1.0 workers reported for the past three months by small business owners [...]
Like Customers, HSN Call Center Employees Stay Home
St. Petersburg Times: For 20 hours a week Julie Sardelli fields HSN sales calls in her Pinellas Park home office with two big dogs curled around her feet and two smaller ones parked on the desk, flanking her home computer. “There’s no commute, I can work in my PJs, and when my shift ends, I [...]
SkipMcgrath.com: eBay announced they will be killing the Dutch Auction format effective in May. Since eBay expanded and reduced fees on Fixed Price Listings, the Dutch auction format has been used less and less by sellers where it was once the favored format for listing multiple items. Sellers have until May to change their Dutch [...]
