Archive for March 24th, 2009
Mompreneurs Provide Hand-Made Baby Gifts for Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck
PR Web: Baby Swags is a well known marketing and public relations company that specializes in celebrity gifting for work at home moms and the products and/or services they create. Baby Swags along with mompreneur clients have provided mom-inspired baby gifts to actress Jennifer Garner and actor Ben Affleck after the birth of their second [...]
What Is It That Mompreneurs Need?
Media Syndicate: Running a business while raising a family can be an extremely rewarding yet challenging path for many moms. Just ask Lara Galloway, The Mom Biz Coach. As a certified life and business coach and a mother of three kids under seven years of age, Lara has been managing the same challenges other mom [...]
My second post is up on the The Small Business Marketing Guide. This one is about branding your small business. Large corporate businesses have one advantage over small businesses: they have more people and resources. Because they’re such vast collections of individuals, and it can be difficult for consumers to understand an organization that large, [...]
As Credit Cards Falter, Cash Variety Gains Popularity
The New York Times: Three small companies are playing a role in a business that has been growing as the economy’s troubles have deepened — the business of prepaid cash cards. The cards, which have the Visa, MasterCard and Discover logos, act like portable checking accounts, though they are replenished with deposits made at retail [...]
Finding Your Niche Can Lead To Biz Success
bytestart.co.uk: Can you identify your audience? One of the most important and sometimes difficult first tasks of any new business owner is to identify who will be interested in buying their products or services, who they should market to and who needs to hear from them? The classic mistake made by all too many entrepreneurs [...]
PaidContent.org: Companies can’t run ads on Twitter (yet), but in five years, a prime spot on the micro-blogging service’s “suggested users” list might be worth well over a million dollars. That’s what Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis told TechCrunch, after offering Twitter’s founders $250,000 to secure a place on the list for the next two years. [...]
Marc At MarcandAngelHackLife.com: Some people spend 90% of their time organizing their time. Some tackle to-do lists peppered with insignificance that stretch a mile long. And still, there are others who refuse to do anything at all. As for me, I am committed to doing one thing a day, and that has made all the [...]
Gov’t Takes Steps To Make SBA Loans Easier To Get
ABC News: Small business owners who have watched banks and automakers get assistance from the government can now receive some help, too. The government is making it easier for companies to get loans from the Small Business Administration. It’s eliminating fees on its most popular loans, known as 7a loans, and guaranteeing a larger portion [...]
