Archive for May 2009
Oregon Company Finds New Recycling Niche
Washington Energy Services: An Oregon company is hoping to carve an interesting new niche for itself in the recycling industry, according to recent reports. According to the Statesman Journal newspaper, Agri-Plas is using a new process developed by Oregon State University graduate Kevin DeWitt that can break down old plastic and turn it back into [...]
Inc.: As consumers slash their budgets and newspaper subscriptions continue to slide, more people are turning to the Internet for coupons. That’s good news for entrepreneurs leading the charge to move coupons online. According to a recent survey of 4,500 women by Burlington, Massachusetts-based online ad network Burst Media, coupon usage is up, and more [...]
photo credit: Paulo Brandão Once you’ve been funded and set up for your new business, you may be asking yourself “now what?” many entrepreneurs do. It will be much easier for you if you have created a product or service that is quite meaningful to the public, so make sure your’s is a meaningful product/service. [...]
photo credit: alfonso benayas While in the past entrepreneurs have had to do a lot of exaggerating to get their business off the ground as far as lying through their teeth in order to get the financing they need, or they had to sell their soul’s to get the financing, today there are better and [...]
photo credit: Torley In a previous post I wrote about how it may be time to do away with daily or weekly meetings as they can be time consuming where email updates would take less productivity time. In this post I’m going to the other extreme with daily short meeting’s. A recent article was posted [...]
photo credit: Refracted Moments™ When trying to increase your sales on the floor, the obvious first step is to bring more customers into your store…you cant sell to them if they are not there! Advertise in local areas where your customers are such as magazines, local radio, local tv, libraries and more. By talking to [...]
Crafter “Claws” Her Way To Success With Jewelry
Because of Etsy, many talented crafters have been able to turn their hobby into a successful business. That is no different for Nichole Jeske. The moment someone asked about purchasing her jewelry, the entrepreneurial seed was planted and the idea for Paw & Claw Designs was born. What is the inspiration behind Paw & Claw [...]
photo credit: thingermejig It seems that one of the most rising products in the economy today are anything that proves to be a “green” product. With the world going green from recycling to products and services we use in our house…why not start a “green” business. Below are a few examples of eco-friendly business’ with [...]
Parenting Blogs May Be Held Liable For Product Reviews
ABC News: Mommy blogger Colleen Padilla never imagined that her opinions would become so coveted by other parents that corporations would come knocking on her door, requesting that she review their products and tout them in the blogosphere. She launched her blog, Classymommy.com, as a way to chronicle her life as a new mom but [...]
Bizs Get Goodwill By Giving Away Services
USA TODAY: In the midst of this job-eating, business-depleting recession, some entrepreneurs — particularly owners of small businesses — are taking a step few could have seen even one year ago: working for free for their best clients. Instead of moping, Watts Wacker got a novel idea from listening closely to President Obama’s inaugural address [...]
From YouTube To Her Own Make-Up Line
Springwise: YouTube regularly spawns flash-in-the-pan celebrities, but few have managed to build a profitable business out of their exposure. Lauren Luke is a rare exception—the British self-taught make-up guru built such a loyal following with her chatty tips on how to imitate celebrity looks, that she just launched her own line of cosmetics: By Lauren [...]
Tapping Biz Skills That Already Exist
The New York Times: Entrepreneurial impulses can be stirred to life by the most unexpected influences. In Donna Young’s case, it was culture shock. Young grew up on the sparsely populated Andros Island in the Bahamas with 10 siblings and had long pursued a professional career. Young’s entrepreneurial side surfaced not long after she arrived [...]
Finding A New Niche In A Pinch
The Post and Courier: Two neighboring businesses are working hard to think outside the narrow scope of their industries, coming up with ideas that they hope will carry them through tough economic times. Barry Taylor, president of a shutter distribution company in North Charleston, started making flower boxes earlier this year after he discovered that [...]
Which Brand Is Worth $100 Billion? Coca Cola IBM Google Microsoft WalMart View Results
photo credit: publik15 There was a recent interview done on OpenForum where the interviewee was being asked what he thought about the companies sales prevention specialist. Why? That is my only questions to this matter, why would you want to prevent sales? In a world and day and age where every sale matters big, here are a [...]
photo credit: LeSmou Imperator Consumers decreasing their spending habits this past year and new year to come are not the only one’s. In August of 2008 a report showed that 49% of business were planning on cutting their spending and by time October rolled around that number jumped to a high of 69%. The continuous [...]
The Challenges Of Being Self Employed
photo credit: emilio labrador We all use to dream when we were little about being fireman, lawyers, doctor’s, etc. But there comes a point in most of our lives when we start dreaming about being our own boss, who wouldn’t want to be? If your considering becoming your own boss, below are some of the [...]
Virtual Assistant For Your Web Business
photo credit: William Hook One of the up and coming careers that is rapidly rising today is virtual assistants. Companies and entrepreneurs everywhere are realizing all the benefits that come with having a virtual assistant. Entrepreneurs who own their own web based business are now realizing just how handy a VA can be to them [...]
Business Resolutions For The New Year
photo credit: Torley While granted, the new year has already begun, I am a firm believer in it’s never too late for a new year’s resolution. Below are a few examples of business new year’s resolutions found on Entrepreneur.com that you and your employees may be interested in for 2009. Accordingly, one of the crucial questions [...]
photo credit: Thorne Enterprises It is very common that leaders have to learn how to act as such. This is where learning from a real actor could come in quite handy for the company. There are many different way’s to accomplish this task, and they all prove to be beneficial to the company. The power [...]
photo credit: h.koppdelaney A recent interview was conducted with psychologist R. Keith Sawyer regarding the creative process and posted on OpenForum. In this interview, Sawyer made many valuable points that could come in quite handy for any business owner. ●Build on ideas that you’ve had before. Such as the ipod, it came from the walkman. [...]
Mistakes In Forming A Corporation
photo credit: b3nscott Most people make the mistake of thinking that forming a corporation or incorporation is extremely costly and only for large business’. This is not true, forming a corporation is cheaper then ever right now and small business’ are urged to form one as well as large business’. But there are a few [...]
Tools For The Start-Up Of Your Web Business
photo credit: woodleywonderworks When starting up any business, especially an internet business it is important that you have the proper tools for maintenance, programming, ongoing support and more. Below is a list of tools that are sure to come in handy for those of you trying to start-up your own web based business. ●Wordpress. This [...]
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. [...]
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
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.
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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.
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
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, [...]
