Archive for July 7th, 2009
Finding a Business That Matches your Personal Skills and Interests
photo credit: LaserGuided The following is a guest post from Bizymoms. One of the surest ways to succeed in any business is to try and match your inherent skills and natural interests with the kind of business that you choose for yourself. If you can do that, half your battle is already won. In terms [...]
Free E-Book: If A domain name is used well together with a creative idea, you can create a killer marketing campaign that can skyrocket your sales.
Oregon Overcomplicates Entrepreneurship for Unemployed
Oregon is trying to get people who are receiving unemployment to start a business. Because it’s a government program, though, it’s a bit more complicated than it needs to be. All enrolled Self Employment Assistance Program claimants must attend self-employment assistance counseling/training and engage in self-employment activities on a fulltime basis. Participants must complete both [...]
Entrepreneur Passionate About His Neckwear
The Florida Times-Union: When he was growing up, Efferem Williams would get a new suit each Easter. Williams would wear that suit to church each Sunday for a year. “What made it different would be the ties,” he said. When it came to ties, Williams took his cue from an older cousin, Vernon Franklin, who [...]
Via Michael Webster comes this video from the FTC on business opportunity fraud:
Is 2009 the year of the rental company? The Start Up Donut Blog thinks so: Zilok takes advantage of a number of relatively recent developments, not least the Internet (and in particular Google Maps), to enable you to search for things and then to rent them from a neighbour. They claim that the average drill [...]
Small Business Website Mistakes To Avoid
photo credit: juhansonin Many people think that setting up a website is less detailed then it really is. There are so many different aspects and sectors of setting up a website that either make or break how that website does in terms of traffic it receives. Here are some very important mistakes to avoid [...]
photo credit: √oхέƒx™ It appears that the reports of the death of the incandescent lightbulb were greatly exaggerated: When Congress passed a new energy law two years ago, obituaries were written for the incandescent light bulb. The law set tough efficiency standards, due to take effect in 2012, that no traditional incandescent bulb on the [...]
Ask Yourself Before Starting A Home-Based Biz
Sacramento Home-based Business Examiner: With the current recession it’s easy to be tempted by the lure of starting your own home based business. However, before making the jump you should assess your reasons and ability to start up a home-based business. • Do I have the necessary core skills? • Will I be moonlighting after [...]
Don’t Overthink Your Business Idea
photo credit: woodleywonderworks Wanna-be entrepreneurs tend to overthink and over-complicate their business ideas. Opening a pizza hamburger stand isn’t a unique idea, but depending on your location it could be an ideal business opportunity. There’s no reason to be clever just for cleverness sake. You don’t need to create something from scratch. Everyday I profile [...]
photo credit: emifaulk A group of Sheffield College (UK) students have developed the false teeth for cats. Seventeen-year-old Rachel Gilbert is one of eight animal care students who have come with help for unfortunate felines who have to have their damaged gnashers removed. Rachel is competing on Monday at her own Castle College in the [...]
photo credit: kevindooley There are so many blogs out there that get thousands of readers everyday, so how do they do it? How do they bring in all that traffic everyday? They have found ways to set up their blogs in such a way that it automatically attracts attention to the readers, it pulls them [...]
Fear No.2: Economic Uncertainty
Entrepreneur: Five years ago, the economy may not have been of forefront concern for a startup entrepreneur. But today, businesses big and small, young and old, are worried about what the declining economy means for them. According to the January 2009 “American Express OPEN Economic Pulse,” report, 66 percent of small-business owners surveyed said they [...]
What You Can Do With A Bad Headline
photo credit: Piez A headline to your articles is the single most important part of that article. Your headline is what will determine whether a person reads your article, just scans over it looking for important information or simply deletes it without even reading one sentence. Your headline tells what type of article the reader [...]
Your Home Based Biz And Your Children
The Home-Based Business Blog: There are many reasons to build a home based business. One that is not mentioned very much is how it can form your children. Working a home based business can provide a good example for your children. At the very least, it will provide them with an alternate view from what [...]
Oregon Helps The Unemployed Start Their Own Business
While this is not directly connected to mom-entrepreneurship, this is a great example of what our government can do for those of us that find ourselves unfortunately unemployed. This could also make for a wonderful opportunity, allowing working moms who have recently been laid-off the chance to become mompreneurs. OregonLive.com: Management consultant Mike O’Daly lost [...]
This is neat. FreePatentsOnline has launched a patent map. It is a Google Maps mashup that shows the location of over 3 million patents and patent appliactions based on the inventor’s city. Pretty amazing to consider that my little town of Mariposa, CA (population 1,300) has 27 patents!
Mom Pours More Than Heart Into Her Business, She Pours Candle Wax Too
Examiner.com: It has been 2 1/2 years since Luminous Glow Candle Company was born. Since then, Belinda has found that right combination. Currently, her hand poured soy candles are housed in 19 retail locations in the Tampa Bay area including Carrollwood Florist and Abby’s Heath and Nutrition. Much of her business also comes from schools, [...]
photo credit: jyryk58 Let’s jump right to the question that every woman entrepreneur who’s thinking about starting up a business in today’s economy wants the answer to: “Should I start up now or wait six months?” There will always be risk in starting up a brand new business whether you do it during a strong [...]
ReadWriteWeb: According to a study published in The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, patents may be harming our ability to innovate. Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts, written by Bill Tomlinson of UC Irvine and Andrew Torrance of University of Kansas School of Law, tested the hypothesis with a game called PatentSim. The [...]
Online Boutique Helps Create An Identity For Your Pet
As every pet owner knows, our four legged friends can be just as unique as we are and each one has its own personality. Since we don’t all like the same things, wouldn’t that also apply to our pets? Four Leg Identity allows you to buy products for your pet that fit its personality. They [...]
