Archive for May 6th, 2009
photo credit: mark sebastian Are you getting tired of your same old 9 to 5 job, tired of climbing and climbing up that ladder but never actually getting where you want to be after all your hard work? Many people other than yourself feel this same way, and some of them have decided to quit [...]
photo credit: *L*u*z*a* return to nature NASA has had a pee cycling concept for years now, however, it has yet to make it to the consumers shelves for general sale as the price tag on their model is $250,000. A newer model has recently been developed by Leonardo Manavella to turn your pee into drinkable water. [...]
photo credit: SvenDowideit Small Business Labs recently posted an article on obtaining venture capital. VC has been a long time funding option for businesses all over. However, with the recent economy, funding in all areas is becoming scarce for businesses including that of venture capital. A surprising 90% of businesses that have already been funded are [...]
Lack Of Discipline In Your Business?
photo credit: kaibara87 In a recent article by Ken Partain, he spoke about all of the business’ that seem to be closing their door’s left and right today. This was said to be a result of lack of discipline in those business’. There are four major categories of discipline according to Partain that a [...]
CarsForAGrand.com: Home Grown PR
One guy turned his eBay affiliate site CarsForAGrand.com into a monster hit by driving around the country in a beat-up 1974 Pontiac LeMans that he purchased for $899.89 and doing interviews along the way with local television stations. By the end he’d received over 110,000 unique visitors to his website. Heres’s an example of the [...]
More Moms Turn To Home-Based Businesses
Las Vegas Now: The recession appears to be spurring a growth in home-based businesses, including some in the Las Vegas valley. According to Money Magazine, stay-at-home moms now command the largest percentage of paid home-based workers. According to the Department of Labor, almost one out of every 10 stay-at-home moms with kids under the age [...]
NWAnews.com: Until November 2007 Janet Miller was an administrative assistant, a career she had begun 20 years earlier. That career ended when she was let go by her employer. “From that point, I decided that I didn’t want to go back into the corporate world,” says Miller, 37, of Conway. “I’ve always wanted to be [...]
Go Home Gorgeous Pampers New Moms Without Leaving The Hospital
When most women think of a postpartum hospital room, I’m willing to bet they don’t imagine a spa. The introduction of a new little one into their life is a special one and it will come with its fair share of stress. Rachel Swardson-Wenham understands how a new mom feels and she made it her [...]
Tap Into Your Inner Entrepreneur
WRAL.com: The threat of job loss has a lot of people considering their options. One alternative is to start your own business, but are you cut out to be can entrepreneur? Audra George has entrepreneur skills. She took her passion for cooking rum cakes and turned it into a business. “I decided to give it [...]
photo credit: Random Acts of Photography My first post is up on the Mid Market Innovators site. I thought it was going to go live on Earth Day, so it has a very “green” perspective. In it I discuss, amongst other things, the environmental impact of spam: Each spam message is responsible for, on average, [...]
ReadWriteWeb: Government data is actually quite boring on its own, but in these exciting times of democratized programming, government data can be turned into some pretty exciting mashups. That’s just what the nonprofit Sunlight Foundation is aiming to make more possible with its work to make government and related data more available with its new [...]
60% of Twitterers Quit After a Month How Google Could Have Stopped The Swine Flu and Saved the World Why Does Air Force One Need Publicity, Anyway? Want To Avoid Swine Flu? There’s An App For That Too. Are Postal Workers Being Sickened by Paper Pollution?
Kim Beasley at bizzia: Helping a fellow business owner can be very rewarding because it is a way for your to “pay it forward”. “Paying it forward” is the process of helping out three people without expecting anything in return. Then ask them to help out three people instead of paying you back. It’s a [...]
suite101.com: The happiest and most successful entrepreneurs are ones that turn a passion into profit. Here are 4 steps business owners can take to make money by doing what they love. Step 1: Discover Your Purpose Step 2: Uncover Your True Passion Step 3: Select a Product that Embodies Your True Passion Step 4: Just [...]
