Archive for May 26th, 2009
photo credit: Nano Taboada When in business we all have many many decisions to make throughout our days, and we all wonder on just about every single one of them if we are truly making the right decision or if it will come back to haunt us one day. Below are some elements of what [...]
Nonnegotiable Rules Of Advertising
photo credit: showmeone In the advertising world there are many different forms as well as policies and practices that go along with them all. Small Biz Bee recently posted an article on a few advertising rules that are not negotiable in any market. Set a budget up front that you will allocate to your monthly [...]
Radio Interviews That Work For You
photo credit: Unhindered by Talent There are so many different ways of media coverage now a days that many people don’t even really think about radio interviews as one more way to obtain media coverage. A radio interview a lot of times is much cheaper media advertisement than many other forms of media coverage. Below [...]
Work at Home: Beaver Cleaver’s Dad Rule
Jeff Cornwall in the Tennessean: If you have children, teach them what I call the “Beaver Cleaver’s Dad Rule.” On the old sitcom Leave it to Beaver, Beaver’s dad, Ward Cleaver, had an office in their home. The kids knew to only go in there when invited — and if they were invited it was [...]
Electricity-Free Lighting from 2-Liter Bottles
Alfred Moser is an inventive fellow. During a 2002 energy crisis and blackout in his village in Brazil, he discovered that he could escape from working in the dark by hanging water-filled bottles from the roof of his workshop. They function like skylights, but are practically free. Pretty amazing!
Hattie Rose Designs Renovates The Bib To Be Stylish And Absorbant
Anyone who has, or has had, a baby is likely to have seen or used a bib at some pointi n time. While bibs are handy, the average bib isn’t very absorbant and they can pile up quickly over a short period of time. Jill Sandager would know. Her own daugher produced drool like it [...]
Could Self Employment Be Easier?
photo credit: DeclanTM A business is like a child. It needs support, guidance, and protection. And like a child, your business needs some things that you, the parent, can’t provide. And then there are things your business needs that you may not feel ready to give. Both situations call for outside support, recently stated on [...]
Mom-Owned Business Received National Recognition For Helping New Moms Breastfeed
PR Web: My Little Juel, owned by Suzanne Juel, local Houston Resident and mother of three, was recently certified by Medela, Inc. as a Medela Certified Nursing Center. This is the first Medela Certified Nursing Center in Texas, and one of less than 25 in the United States to date. Medela Certified Nursing Centers are [...]
'Mompreneurs' Building Businesses While Staying Home
Baltimoresun.com: Beth Adams spends the day fulfilling people’s to-do lists, everything from cleaning closets to picking up prescriptions to buying flowers. Then the co-owner of a Baltimore-based personal assistant firm and mother of four returns home – where she runs errands at no charge. “I’ll have to take someone to the game, or I’ll have [...]
Trademarks 101: How To Protect Your Good Name
CNNMoney: The difference between copyright and trademark isn’t always obvious, but the distinction matters here. Both are ways of protecting intellectual property, but copyright generally protects “original works of authorship” like a book, song or poem. A trademark covers the right of such things as brands, titles and logos. In your case, establishing and protecting [...]
Entrepreneur Shares Tricks Of The Trade For Success
The Rocket: In an interactive hour-long presentation, business entrepreneur and author Beth Caldwell shared her “secrets to success” to an audience that filled Eisenberg Classroom Building’s auditorium.” Caldwell is a public relations consultant in Greentree, Pa., where she owns her own public relations firm and focuses in working with small business owners and entrepreneurs. She [...]
2009 Invention Awards: Greensulate
Popular Science: Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre want to line the walls of your home with mushrooms. The young entrepreneurs have created a strong, low-cost biomaterial that could replace the expensive, environmentally harmful Styrofoam and plastics used in wall insulation, as well as in packaging and a host of other products. Wind-turbine blades and auto-body [...]
Some Inventions Born Amid Recession
LA Times: They might never get as big as chocolate-chip cookies, which supposedly were invented during the Great Depression, but most of these inventions came about because the people behind them were laid off during this economic downturn. • The iTie. Joe Sale of Tampa, Fla., invented it after he was laid off from his [...]
Do We Learn From Our Mistakes? Or Not?
Trusted Advisor Associates: A Harvard Business School study of venture capital-backed entrepreneurs tested whether or not we learn from our mistakes. The results are confounding to many—including me. Here’s the story. Several thousand VC-backed companies were studied over 17 years. First-timers had an aggregate success rate of 22% (success meaning going public). The study is [...]
