Archive for April 23rd, 2009
Customer Loyalty Repels the Recession
photo credit: Jacob Bøtter Small business’ today face a lot of challenges such as staying in good terms with your bank, finding new customers, healthcare issues, possibly having to cut staff and more, so it’s very important to stay on top of your current customer base. Keeping your customers satisfied and happy at all costs [...]
How to Recession-Proof Yourself
photo credit: Marshall Astor – Food Pornographer I read an article found on Harvard Busienss suggesting that younger workers now a day’s are questioning their job security. They see what is going on, but to them it’s out of a text book rather then real life like their parents have seen already at least [...]
photo credit: krossbow We have been spending a lot of time on advertising, sales, hiring, promotions and how to handle them, etc. But one of the most important factors in your company and what can be the most costly is safety. Below are a few key points that should help you establish safety in your [...]
photo credit: ginnerobot A recent study was done on small business Optimism last fall. While most would think that the answers would be dreary in nature due to the economy, it turned out to be actually quite the opposite by surprise. It was shown that more than half of the small business owners responded with [...]
photo credit: pfala While business owners watch their costs rise and rise, at some point they have to face the fact that some increase in pricing may be in store for them to redeem their business. But increasing your prices however does not have to in turn cost you your customer base which was recently [...]
Baby Kakes, Well, Takes The Cake
The News-Press: Talking shop with Stephanie Bloch and Michelle Forneris, owners of Baby Kakes. The company sells gorgeous diaper cakes handmade by Bloch as well as baby clothes and accessories. They have been in business since November. “We’re moms so we try to make the diaper cakes practical and include useful items in the cake,” [...]
Woman's Networking Group Forms In South Arlington
pegasusnews.com: Last week a group of area mom entrepreneurs met up at Chelsea’s Tea Room in South Arlington. Use of the tea room and lunch was provided courtesy of another mom entrepreneur Jackie Andrews. Each woman in the group is a mom business owner, and all wear various hats according to job requirements (pun intended). [...]
CNNMoney: For an elite Division I-bound high-school athlete, navigating the maze of college recruitment means choosing among the crowd of coaches lined up outside the door. But fewer than 10% of the estimated 1.5 million young athletes seeking a spot on a college sports team find themselves in that enviable position. The rest maneuver through [...]
Public Provides Giggles, Bloggers Get Book Deals
The New York Times: After Duncan Birmingham, a comedy screenwriter in Los Angeles, got one too many holiday cards featuring miserable-looking pets wearing fake reindeer antlers, he realized the photos were great material for a blog. Birmingham started Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves in early January, uploaded the first entry and asked readers to [...]
Fortune Small Business: It’s always standardized test prep season at CEO Karan Goel’s company. The proven prep method has caught on quickly, and not just amongst parents and students: high schools across the country are signing up. PrepMe doesn’t just focus on the exam; it focuses on the academic achievements of the students. This way, [...]
USC Grads Parlay Idea Into Startup
TheState.com: The next time your child makes her own movie on the Kerpoof Web site, keep in mind you’re looking at the brainchild of two University of South Carolina graduates. Brent Milne, his wife, Krista Marks, and their two partners met while working for the software company Xilinx in Boulder, Colo. They came up with [...]
Men Spend More Time Online, Respond Better To Ads
arstechnica: Men go online more often, stay on for longer, and respond to ads more positively than women do, according to a new report from eMarketer. The firm looked at the Internet habits of men versus women, partially because men are (technically) in the minority online and also because gender “is a distinguishing factor of [...]
