Archive for June 15th, 2009
Making the Jump: Starting a Business on a Wing and a Prayer
Amber Riviere fell into entrepreneurship naturally because she had a talent that other people were willing to pay money for.
Is My Idea Good Enough to Start a Biz?
smallbizbee: I hear this a lot, “do you think my idea is good enough to start a business?”…and normally what people mean is “do you think I’ll make money doing this?”. The short answer is- most ideas you can think of are good enough to start a business around – in short you can probably [...]
SmashingApps: Onyaka is an online staff time planning software service that takes all the pain out of staff scheduling. Onyaka provides you with easy to use staff scheduling software, with no downloads, no expensive license fees, and no installation hassle. It has a simple drag and drop interface and you can use all of the [...]
photo credit: DavidErickson We have all seen a number of logos whether it be on billboard signs, products, doors of a company, flyer’s and more, we have all at some point stopped and said to ourselves “why on earth would you pick that for your logo?” Logos can do wonderful things for your company if [...]
Children’s Clothing Biz Uses Twitter To Grow
Loveland Connection: Twitter and other social media sites are easy to get addicted to; just ask entrepreneur Angie Shafranek. “Ha, I’m on it like five times a day,” Shafranek admitted when asked how often she uses Twitter. However, that Twitter habit has given a boost to her online children’s clothing business, Shafranek said. She went [...]
A reader, Paul Rusnak, wrote in with the following account of his failed attempt at marketing: I am a subscriber of you weblog and I enjoy reading all the stories, many of which give me new ideas to market my business. Here is something that happened to one of my creative marketing ideas… that didn’t [...]
Interview with an iPhone Game Maker
Have you ever wondered what goes into making, marketing, and selling an iPhone app? I have. PCWorld has an interview with Joel Rosenberg, the author of an addictive puzzle game for the iPhone called Blocked. Here’s a snippet: PC World: Let’s get the big question out of the way. Will you be able to retire [...]
Is A Mental Health Day In Order For You?
photo credit: h.koppdelaney Many business owners find themselves a few times a year in desperate need of a vacation even if it’s just for one day, they get over stressed, overly tired, worn out and begin to miss the things that matter the most such as family, friends and fun time. However, many of them [...]
Forced Health Care is Bad Bad Bad
photo credit: boliston Jaclyn’s last post was about a proposal floating around Washington DC that would mandate that all employers provide health coverage for employees. I disagree strongly with her take on it. The truth is, the fact that employers often pay for their employees healthcare costs is what has made medical care in the [...]
photo credit: a.drian If you run a small business and employ people, under one of the proposals floating around for healthcare reform you’d be required to provide health insurance for employees. Small Biz Trends recently posted an article regarding one of the new laws that is in process of trying to get passed, all employers [...]
photo credit: allie pasquier It is no surprise that with every new month comes new websites, new tools, new businesses, and so on. But one must also ask how many different web tools that do pretty much the same thing do we need in business. Yes it is good to have variety, but it is [...]
Inventors and Entrepreneurs from all over the country are invited to submit their US Patented or Patent Pending products to the Inventors Club of Kansas City’s National Invention Contest for a chance to win the opportunity to have their consumer product marketed and sold in retail stores. Only 20 invention spots are available. Go here [...]
photo credit: R.B. Boyer Being in business for yourself can make several decisions regarding your business difficult for you to make. One of the biggest things that business people have a problem with is setting prices for their services and products. They never really quite know where to start or go about it. Most think [...]
What Would Sotomayor Mean For Biz?
Fortune: As he had promised to do, President Obama selected a judge with enormous breadth of life and career experience – experience that dwarfs not only that of Wood or Kagan but, indeed, that of any of the justices on the current Court. In addition to her extraordinary life story – raised poor by a [...]
Jersy Mom Continues Hair-Styling Skills In Green Brook
MyCentralJersey.com: Giving birth to four children within seven years did not dampen Michelle Mackie’s love of working with hair. “About 13 years ago, I started to work out of my home, doing the hair of family and friends so I could keep my skills up and raise my young children,” Mackie said. Even before that, [...]
Mompreneur Expert: Internet Gives Options To Out Of Work Women
eMediaWire: Men make up 82% of the recession’s job losses, which means countless women are out there looking for work to make up for the lost paycheck. The problem is it’s almost impossible to find a job right now, so for many women their only hope is to get a home-based business up and running [...]
Real Clothing Sizes For “RealKidz”
The plus sized market is a growing one, especially among children. While we, as parents, want our children to be healthy, it is impossible to ignore their needs. They need age appropriate clothing. As a former plus sized kid, I was intrigued by RealKidz. Merrill Guerra has gone after the underserved above average market in [...]
Moms Use Creativity, Talent, & Hard Work To Provide For Their Families
MPNnow: Providing everything children deserve is never easy, but it’s part of mom’s job description. When things get tough, moms get tougher. Driven by an unconditional love, moms use creativity, talent and old-fashioned hard work to provide for their families. Tuscarawas Township, Ohio, resident Kristen Ramsey dusted off her dreams to help support her family [...]
