Archive for June 23rd, 2009
2009 Boost Your Business Contest
There’s not a lot of time left to enter Forbes’ 2009 “Boost Your Business” Contest. If you’re interested, you’d better get cracking. Forbes.com, home page for the world’s business leaders, invites entrepreneurs to enter its third annual “Boost Your Business” small business contest. Contestants can now submit their entries at www.forbes.com/byb. In the first round [...]
Boy Creates Creature That Eats Plastic
photo credit: Jim Doran Keep and eye on this, there’s either a real opportunity here in a few years, or a monster movie in the making. Mother Nature Network: It’s not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at May’s Canadian Science [...]
The Death Of The Corner Pharmacy
CNNMoney.com: Each morning that he unlocks the doors of Cottage Pharmacy, owner Ken Villani fights a losing battle. Revenue at his Woodbury, N.Y., store has been dropping for months. But unlike at other retail establishments, sales at his pharmacy may not rebound in tandem with consumer confidence. That’s because more and more of Villani’s customers [...]
Physorg.com: The study by Sara Mednick, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego and the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and first author Denise Cai, graduate student in the UC San Diego Department of Psychology, shows that REM directly enhances creative processing more than any other sleep or wake state. “We found that [...]
Moms Scrambling To Make Some Extra Money
TheLedger.com: In an unusual twist, many moms are finding themselves in a new scenario: seeking work-at-home arrangements driven not by flexibility – think soccer practices and piano recitals – but as the best option to supplement family income. With a surge in male breadwinners out of work, mothers are selling jewelry out of their kitchens, [...]
The Columbus Dispatch: In an unusual twist, many moms are finding themselves in a new scenario: seeking work-at-home arrangements driven not by flexibility — think soccer practices and piano recitals — but as the best option to supplement family income. With a surge in male breadwinners out of work, mothers are selling jewelry out of [...]
The Real Scoop On Grants For Small Bizs
The Houston Chronicle: You’ve heard the adage that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is? That definitely applies in the world of government grants. The government just does not give out money to open a “regular” business like a restaurant, bookstore or car wash, with no obligation to pay the money [...]
Free Small Town Business Marketing Books
SmallTownMarketing.com is giving away two marketing and advertising books for small town business owners.
Legal Quirk Lets Anyone Sue Over Patents
Associated Press: Look carefully at the lid to your coffee cup or the handle of your disposable razor. A recent ruling on an obscure, century-old statute has opened the door for people familiar with the finer points of patent law to sue companies that stamp their products with expired patent numbers. A couple of sharp-eyed [...]
Intro to Server Virtualization
photo credit: Ronnie Garcia It’s not my usual fare, but my latest article, Introduction to Server Virtualization, is up on Mid-Market Innovators. Here’s a snippet: A typical data center contains many servers. Traditionally, since hardware was cheap and applications were complex, many administrators installed one application per server. Though this provided their applications with security [...]
PeoplePond Helps You Corral Your Online Identity Into One Source
PeoplePond understands the networking individual. Through SEO (search engine optimization), they help their members take better control of their online identities. They help train search engines to rank the most relevant information higher in the search while also guiding prospects to a place where they can find all the information they need about you, instead [...]
