Archive for April 28th, 2009
photo credit: Gossip Girl ou GG Could bragging about your booming business to your customers be actually hurting you more? Cath Lawson wrote an article on how your customers may not like your bragging as much as you think they do. When your doing bad in an area of your own life, the last thing [...]
Stop Worrying About The Economy!
photo credit: Menage a Moi I think the best advice so far that I have heard regarding the current economic condition is what I recently read in an article located on Web Business Freedom, stop worrying about it and live your life. Obviously worry ourselves sick to the point of sleepless nights is not going [...]
photo credit: h.koppdelaney FrontLine Results Blog posted an article that I found to be a very interesting view on how to look at problems in your business. While most of us see problems or potential problems as another hurdle that we have to get over and over come, it is suggested that they be seen [...]
photo credit: alancleaver_2000 Many business owners today are wondering how they are suppose to make money when the majority of their client base is spending less money. It seems like a catch 22 situation to most. Some experts tell you not to cut your prices as that will cause your customers to expect low prices [...]
photo credit: orphanjones ActiveRain recently posted an article revolving around obtaining credit for your business. For those of you who are thinking about starting your own business for the first time, this would be a great article for you to read. Most people don’t realize that it’s better to have a business credit report to show [...]
Ahwatukee Mom Makes Kid Safety Her Business
azcentral.com: The birth of one baby and the death of another have inspired Ahwatukee Foothills resident Maggie Brown to start up a business she hopes will help save the lives of children ages 5 and younger. Brown, a new grandmother and former PetSmart Inc. district manager, recently created the Web-based Alive Past 5 LLC to [...]
10 Tips For Balancing Work And Motherhood
alibaba.com: Although there’s no secret recipe to balancing work and motherhood, there are thousands of women out there who have learned to do it successfully, women who’ve taken on this challenge before us and have come out on top. I’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to interview many, many entrepreneurial moms. And without fail, [...]
Older Audience Is Looking Better Than Ever
The New York Times: When Brian Gordon and his partners started ebeanstalk.com, which sells children’s learning toys online, they expected most of business to come from younger consumers starting families. But a recent customer survey found that up to 40 percent were actually older, mainly grandparents. “If you’d asked me if 4 out of 10 [...]
TheaterFun Offers Fun For All With Their Licensing Opportunity
Children learn best when they’re having fun. TheaterFun knows it, too. Through their school programs they bring enjoyable lessons into the classroom. In fact, the classes are so enjoyable that they go beyond the classroom, they also host birthday parties. Inspired by Carol Romo’s experience as a ballet teacher and TV producer, TheaterFun was born [...]
Skype: Turning Phone Numbers Into Paid Ads
TechCrunch: While eBay prepares to unload Skype via a sale or IPO, it is busy looking for new ways to make money off its 405 million global users. They already account for an estimated 8 percent of international calls, and many of them are increasingly paying for SkypeOut calls to regular phones. Its revenues last [...]
Scranton Times Tribune: An Embassy Vinyl customer could be a 50-year-old looking for a Doobie Brothers LP, a 20-something hipster looking for an old punk 45, or a teen looking for a used CD cheaper than dollar downloads of every song. In an age where YouTube, Dizzler and iTunes have all but replaced LPs, 45s [...]
Researchers Working On Blog Credibility Ranking Systems
arstechnica: The proliferation of widespread Internet access has enabled everyone and their dog to start a website, but not every one is filled with what some of us would describe as “credible” information. That’s why some researchers are attempting to create software that can analyze Web content and automatically rank it to help out those [...]
How Using PayPal Can Boost Revenues
Blogging Stocks: For some time, I’ve used PayPal, which is owned by eBay. For example, I recently paid a contractor in India using the service. It was extremely easy. Well, I had a chance to talk to the Small Biz folks at PayPal and found out that there is much more to the service. In [...]
