Archive for July 14th, 2009
My-Alarm: Self Monitored Alarms
My-Alarm is a cellular phone based home alarm business opportunity. My-Alarm uses a wireless system to transmit an alarm notification (like a window or door being opened, or motion detected) to any cellphone via a text message, or to any other phone via an automated voice message. The system can text message or call any [...]
Is Your Business Ready To Be Sold?
photo credit: PinkMoose The news might seem anything but encouraging; yet it doesn’t mean there’s no hope for selling a business successfully in this market. The truth is that some deals are closing, but in almost all of these cases there are some key attributes involved. Any business owner with a company on the market [...]
eBay Consignment Biz Is Booming
Skip Mcgrath Blog: It wasn’t that long ago that the consignment business model was considered pretty much dead. The severity of this recession has caused record unemployment, record home foreclosures and record bankruptcies. This results in people and businesses needing to raise cash or sell off goods and merchandise from bankrupt people and companies. This [...]
Entrepreneur: There are many ways to get access to the expertise you may need. The bad news is that just the process of managing your advisors and advice can be a challenge, especially when the advice you get from one expert conflicts with that given by another. However, the most critical mark of a good [...]
MakeUseOf.com: Flippa is a web service that acts as an online marketplace for buying and selling entire websites. The site is not new, it is actually redesigned and renamed version of a well known website auction section on a SitePoint.com. You have to be registered before you can buy or sell websites. While buying, searching [...]
Mompreneur Turns Gifts Into A Business
Rockford Register Star: When Joelene Chinn finishes one of her creations, it’s a bit like Rockford’s infamous Sock Monkey — gone punk. The 33-year-old mother is the mastermind behind the rockin’ sock dolls popping up throughout the Rock River Valley. It’s only been a few months since she launched her business, Socks That Rock, but [...]
WAHM-Articles.com Announces Partnership With Studio One Networks
PR-USA.net: WAHM-Articles.com, the website that publishes articles written by work at home moms (WAHMs) for work at home moms, recently announced an editorial partnership with Studio One Networks to bring WAHM-Articles.com readers Ideas That Spark, a free online program sponsored by Bounty paper towel that provides daily tips, fun quizzes, audiocasts, and feature articles that [...]
photo credit: Torley Recently there have been quite a few reports stating that newly graduated design specialists are having some trouble landing their dream job in that field, according to FastCompany. The speculation behind this problem is that there are a number of rather important skills that companies look for in design specialists that [...]
Product Teaches Kids Entrepreneur Skills
Phoenix Business Journal: A Phoenix woman is hoping to teach youngsters entrepreneurial skills with a venture called Biz in a Boxx. Melissa Rose developed the product during the past year and launched it in May after becoming concerned about the academic performance of her young daughter. She came up with the idea to help teach [...]
Storytellers To Follow On Twitter
photo credit: Atilla1000 In light of recent posts on improving your blog and how to make your blog work for you, I thought it to be a good idea to post a little list of some storytellers that you should follow on Twitter, recently found on DirectorTom.com. You never know what ideas or story [...]
Are Veterans Better Franchisees?
photo credit: BL1961 Entrepreneur.com posted a very interesting article on how veterans often make great franchise owners. There were many points brought up in this article that I have to agree with and find also very interesting as well. Today with more and more people being out of work, businesses and franchises are going up more [...]
The New York Times: For all those small-business owners looking for additional sources of profitable revenue — and who isn’t? — one option may be to go back to something old-fashioned: the suggestion box. Here are some suggestions about using that old idea effectively. 1. Make it easy. “Don’t enforce rules like: ‘Employees may only [...]
Online Network Offers Mompreneurs An Opportunity To Connect
While every entrepreneur is different, “mompreneurs” have one thing in common: children. Whether they are trying to balance their business and time for family or working from home and trying to find ways to work around their children’s needs, these are women who chose to create their own path to success while raising a family. [...]
