Archive for May 1st, 2009

Networking Mistakes Networking Mistakes

photo credit: _dChris Today business owners realize that they need to update all sectors of their business strategies in order to be competitive with others. Networking sometimes is a weakness for business owners, as most of them make simple mistakes that they don’t know how to fix or any other way of going about them. [...]

 

Optimal Marketing Response Optimal Marketing Response

photo credit: gruntzooki Startupnation recently posted an article talking about making your responses to your marketing as optimal as they can be. Remember to pick a marketing strategy that has a viral quality to it, something like emails or your typical promotion mailings. Make sure that it’s as easy as possible for the readers to [...]

 

Mom Finds Opportunity In Home-Based Business Venture Mom Finds Opportunity In Home-Based Business Venture

Legistlative Journal: Aubrey Byrne saw an opportunity and ran with it. As a mom of two young children, she found herself juggling the need to bring home a salary and the flexibility required to raise her family. Three years ago at a Chugiak-Eagle River Women in Business network meeting members put the word out that [...]

 

Host A Coupon Party In Your Home

STLtoday.com: Coupon shoppers, don’t clip those coupons just yet. You might want to hear what Kim Julian has to say about them at the coupon parties she hosts.

 

Making Your Message Viral Making Your Message Viral

photo credit: Tim Morgan When contemplating how to get your message out there and to have it stick to the point where people keep passing your message onto family, friends and colleagues, there are a few points to remember on how to make your message go viral. Word Of Mouth Advertising wrote an article on [...]

 

Alpaca Boutique Brings A Product Of Peru To The World Alpaca Boutique Brings A Product Of Peru To The World

When you think of something warm, what do you think of? Wool? How about Alpaca? Some people might be surprised to find how warm, long-lasting, and wrinke resistant Alpaca clothing can be. Born and raised in Peru, Elizabeth Gels spent her life around the animals. It was after she’d moved to the US, met her [...]

 

Sharper Communication Skills Sharper Communication Skills

photo credit: BeccaG Everywhere you look you see someone requesting good communication skill’s whether it be in business or in personal life matters. Communication is what holds everything together, it allows people to interact, to learn, to teach and so on. I recently read an article on Harvard Business discussing way’s to sharpen these communication [...]

 

Website Fixes Website Fixes

photo credit: whiteafrican Business owners know that there are many different important aspects of the entire business, without one of them, your business is not at it’s very best. One important factor of your business is your website, this adds to the list of how your customers will be able to locate you, so it’s [...]

 

Biz Fun: Make Your Biz Card Disappear!

 

Inventor’s Business Is ‘In The Toilet’ Inventor’s Business Is ‘In The Toilet’

WKYC.com: Wally Berry is proud of the fact that his business is in the toilet. Literally. Berry is the inventor of a device he says will revolutionize the way we flush our toilets. His company will soon manufacture a device called the Siphon Flush, an alternative to the “flapper” which has controlled water flow in [...]

 

Why Didn’t I Think Of That Why Didn’t I Think Of That

Unique products to amuse and inspire. Calendar Tape. When you MUST know the date. Paper E-mail. Comes in handy when the Internet is down. Innovative Coffee Lid. Never get those multiple coffee orders wrong again! First there was the snuggli, now….The Sealpelt Photos by ThinkGeek/Toxel/Birkiland.

 

Niche Biz:  Short Tasks Niche Biz: Short Tasks

Springwise: There are countless employment sites out there that help companies fill full- and part-time jobs. Not included in most, however, are all the extra little tasks businesses often need to get done, but that aren’t enough to justify hiring another regular employee. Targeting those small—yet important—jobs comes ShortTask, which aims to connect qualified workers [...]

 

Putting Ideas And Inventions Into Public Domain Putting Ideas And Inventions Into Public Domain

TechDirt: A few months back, we wondered why it was so difficult to opt out of copyright. Soon after that, Creative Commons added its CC0 license, which gets you a long way towards putting your content in the public domain (there are a few issues related to it, but it’s better than nothing). With patents, [...]