Archive for May 14th, 2009
Best Management Tools For Your Small Business
photo credit: juanpol If your managing your own small business, then you already know that you hold more titles than you technically have time for during your day. This can become very overwhelming quickly if you do not utilize the right tools to help you. SmallbizTrends has come up with some management tools for your small [...]
Self Help Tips For The Home Office
photo credit: Risager When making the transition from office to home office, there are many aspects that people never think to look at, many things that they take for granted in the outside office and don’t even think to make sure they are in place when moving to the home office. Below are a few [...]
photo credit: Lee Jordan Take a minute to sit down and think about all the little thing’s you use throughout the day that you probably take for granted. From the internet to something as simple as the phone book. Think about what you would do if you didn’t have these inventions at your finger tips. [...]
photo credit: jurvetson If your starting to think about taking your business to the next level, consider building a team rather than hiring employees. The employees that are already set in place is a great place to start and building foundation for your new team that you want. Open Forum recently posted an article on [...]
What You Want From A Web Desginer
photo credit: Robert S. Donovan When contemplating designing a website for your business, there is a vast range of options and things that need to be thought about and many decisions to be made on the look, feel and operation of your site. It’s your site that speaks to your customers about you and your [...]
Fast Company: As Memorial Day, the unofficial beginning of the summer grill season, looms, the industry remains red hot. Here’s a tasting platter of stats. More than 74 million American barbecued in 2007. Last year Americans bought roughly 900,000 tons of charcoal briquettes. Kingsford, a unit of Clorox, has about 80% market share. According to [...]
Inventor Touts New Medical Bracelet
The Arizona Republic: A Chandler man has a patent pending for a medical bracelet with a memory card that he says could save paperwork and even lives. The inventor, Jeff Hexamer, says the card will contain a person’s photo, medical history, insurance information, blood type, medications, past surgeries, X-rays, emergency contacts and whether the patient [...]
Get Your Product On Retailers’ Shelves
Fortune Small Business: Q: I have a children’s eco-friendly clothing line. We are taking it slow because we are branding our line and are in some ways picky about who we sell to. I have recently been approached by a distributor, but I’m not sure if this is the best way to launch into the [...]
Interest In eBooks Continues To Grow
Read Write Web: According to the latest data from Hitwise, however, interest in eBooks continues to grow steadily. Looking at the data for the U.K., Hitwise’s Robin Goad concludes that searches for ‘ebooks’ doubled between January 2008 and 2009, with a clear peak around Christmas. As the Kindle isn’t available outside of the U.S. yet, [...]
Successful Entrepreneurs Need Negative Feedback
Knowledge@W.P. Carey: Tom Blondi has been involved with several start-up companies, and he’s learned there are two essential ingredients every successful venture needs. First, someone needs to come up with a good idea. Second, the founder needs to hear negative feedback about that idea. In fact, the negative feedback may be the more important element [...]
