Archive for June 9th, 2009
The Picture Frame Guys Will Make Sure Your Picture Hangs Just Right (And Looks Good Too!)
A picture might be worth a thousand words but the picture frame that holds it will only enhance that message. For every picture that you hang on your wall or set on a table, there is a frame to hold it. The right frame will only flatter the picture and the home it is in. [...]
Moms Finding Work They Can Do At Home
The Agusta Chronicle: Kathy Voss can pay her mortgage with the money she makes working at home. It’s the best of both worlds for the 41-year-old work-at-home mother: She can stay at home with her three children and supplement her family’s income by selling jewelry for Dallas-based Premiere Designs Inc. “Especially during these recession times [...]
Not Enough Or Too Much: Mothers & Daughters In Family Owned Businesses
Ottawa Business Journal: Corinne aged 42; an only child is the second-generation member of her families distribution company. Having been in the business for the past ten years, she worked for both of her parents in the business, and seems to see eye to eye with her father, but feels anxious and gets annoyed easily [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Use Personal Credit For Your Business
photo credit: Andres Rueda ActiveRain describes on possible reason that it might not be best to use your personal credit, if you can help it. What might be perfectly normal and acceptable for a business credit profile, such as submitting multiple applications for business credit, can have a serious negative impact on personal credit because of [...]
SF Weekly: Funemployment. Paycation. The Unemploymentality. Every generation has an argot to describe the confusing terrain of joblessness — the dole, deadbeat dads, UB40, and so on — and the lexicon of younger casualties in the most severe American economic downturn since World War II speaks volumes. Here’s how the blog Recessionwire defines “funemployment”: “A [...]
What You Didn’t Learn In Business School
photo credit: Extra Ketchup Many people have gone through some sort of business schooling before entering the workforce or even starting their own company. This schooling gives them great information and lessons in financial matters, obtaining customers, marketing, branding and more. But what this schooling often does not teach you is how to handle many [...]
The Recession Can Be Good for Business
photo credit: B Mully MaineBusiness.com had an interesting outlook on how you can use the current recession as a powerful marketing tool for your company. Most of us would and have viewed our economic situation as a bad thing, something to fear and worry over, however, there is a lot of good that can come [...]
Use Netspray To Sell Products Across Internet
Skip McGrath: If you are like most eBay sellers in this slow economy, you are looking for additional places to sell. netSpray is an affordable lead generation e-commerce site and marketplace where sellers are given tools and services to create, distribute and manage items for sale all across the Internet. netSpray ads can be placed [...]
What To Remember About Customer Service
photo credit: davitydave In business there are always several different priorities are one’s list, including the decision making process of which priority needs prompt attention and which one’s can wait until tomorrow. So between the two options of income and customer service, which one comes first? Most would right off the bat assume that businesses [...]
Crisis Spurs Spike In ‘Suburban Survivalists’
Associated Press: Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn’t even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet. Now, the 54-year-old businessman and father of five has a backup generator, a water filter, a grain mill and a 4-foot-tall pile of emergency food tucked in his home in the expensive San Diego suburb of La [...]
No Interest Loans For Small Businesses
photo credit: Lori Greig Every small business owner who has been struggling to stay a float in the constant economic downturn may have some light at the end of the down spiral tunnel. The SBA has set up a new 100% guarantee ARC loan program meant for small businesses who are financially struggling. This month [...]
Internet Tax Working Its Way To Louisiana
Ars Technica: Louisiana residents may find themselves paying an extra fee on top of their regular Internet costs if the state’s House of Representatives has its way. The House voted 81 to 9 in favor of the 15-cent monthly levy with the bill’s sponsors arguing that the money would go towards fighting Internet-related crimes in [...]
How One Small Biz Uses Twitter To Build Its Brand
Ad Age: If you hope to compete as a small “carryout and delivery only” pizza joint operating out of a 600-square-foot space against the Goliaths of pizza delivery, you had better have a good product, great service and a deeper mission that differentiates you in a meaningful and sustainable way. And we do — but [...]
