Archive for July 3rd, 2009
photo credit: Jesse Wagstaff Want to get into the solar business but don’t know anything about electricty? No problem, says the NY Times, neither do these guys: Technology advances and falling prices for solar technology have opened the gates for solar installations by businesses with no background in electricity generation. Energy generation “is not our [...]
Protect Your Business From Identity Theft
photo credit: lovelypetal It is so important these days to worry about identity theft not only in your personal life but especially in your business, maybe even more so in your business. Think about it, all the credit and charge cards your business contains, set up lines of credit for your business, hackers obtain a [...]
What Angel Investors Wont Tell You
photo credit: e³°°° In recent light of credit crunching down so much and the economy going down the toilet rapidly, we have all seen several articles posted on where to find additional help and financing such as with Angel Investors. However, as with any area of finance even Angel Investors have their bad points [...]
photo credit: geishaboy500 While today yes there are so many different web tools to choose from and you don’t need every single one, there are also many that a business definitely can benefit from and should have for their business. Below are a select few of the web tools for social media that I [...]
There are hundreds of third-party apps available for Twitter. Below are five apps. Which is NOT really a Twitter app? (At least not yet.) Twaitter Twitletter Twititon Tweepular Twicli View Results The answer will be revealed Monday. Have a safe and wonderful holiday weekend. Photo by whothetweet.com.
Landing That Perfect Start-Up Dream Job
photo credit: Deon Maritz In today’s economy people are wondering what extra steps they should be taking in order to land that dream job of theirs, or even just to land A job in general. There are so many candidates going for the same job that many people feel they should practically be able to [...]
Work These Biz Books Into Your Summer
Advertising Age: Tom Martin over at Advertising Age shares some of his biz book favorites for summer reading. Enjoy the summer and the books. If you don’t see your favorite here, add it to the comments. How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market by Gerald Zaltman. I read this book a [...]
photo credit: smlp.co.uk I recently came across a blog posted on Seths Blog where he takes the point of view that you should never turn down special requests. That you need to treat all customers differently because they are not all the same. While i agree with his point of view on yes, customers are different [...]
Inc.: Brian Wiegand is no stranger to start-ups. His first business, BizFilings, launched in 1996 from his basement and later sold for $15 million to a public company. He and business partner Mark McGuire went on to start two others. The most recent was Jellyfish.com, which caught the purchasing eye of Microsoft only 18 months [...]
photo credit: lrargerich If you travel a great deal for your business or even just a few times a year then you now how expensive this can be, after you put together all the air fair, food, gas if you drive, renting a car, taxi cab fees, dry cleaning services, tips and more it adds [...]
Turn The Recession Into Revenue
The District Chronicles: Several tips for turning the recession into revenue: 1. Take it small scale at first. We’re not talking comprehensive business plans and venture capital commitments. Step one would be to get yourself online. Creating a Web site for your business or to tout your skills is neither difficult nor expensive, and it’s [...]
Start Leaning On Your Financial Advisors More
photo credit: Andre Charland If you have a financial advisors, then you should already be listening to their advice, taking it into consideration, if you aren’t then you need to start. After all what else did you hire this person for if not to take advice from them on your businesses financial matters? Entrepreneur.com suggests that [...]
Biz Poll Results: Where Do You Get Your News?
On Monday, we started a poll that asked readers where they got their news. Six percent said they got their news from newspapers, four percent from radio, 13 percent from TV and a whopping 77 percent from the Internet. This was demonstrated this past weekend with the sudden death of Michael Jackson. The Internet was [...]
Moms Can Make Good Dough From Home
The Huffington Post: When a full-time job as mom doesn’t cut it anymore cash-wise in this struggling economy, it doesn’t necessarily mean going back to work out of the house. There are lots of ways to work from home, keeping your work hours to school hours and managing mom responsibilities. For many of these businesses, [...]
