Archive for July 23rd, 2009
Habits Of Successful Twitter Users
photo credit: respres Incorporate these traits, or habits, into your twittering and you’ll be sure to be a more popular Twitterer. For an all around better time Tweeting, be quick to follow users exhibiting these traits! Small Biz Bee suggests promoting other users more than you promote yourself on Twitter. By promoting people other than [...]
Entrepreneur Turns Trash Bins Into Pools
newsday: Some New Yorkers stuck in small apartments on a hot summer day have a new option: swimming in huge bins that once held trash. The idea for the unlikely urban club came from David Belt, president of Macro Sea, a Manhattan design firm. A contractor loaned him the three big metal bins and they [...]
Uncommon Traits Of A Successful Entrepreneur
photo credit: tofos59 We spend a lot of time talking about good traits that successful entrepreneurs have in common with each other, but were forgetting the not so common traits that also help entrepreneurs to become successful. I recently came across an article posted on Duct Tape Marketing that addresses these traits. Risk Averse – This [...]
Apollo 11 Inspired Entrepreneur
WIBC: For at least one Hoosier, the drama of July 20th, 1969 lives on. Brian Tanner remembers watching the Apollo 11 moon landing on his parents’ black and white Sylvania television. Like many others over the age of 40, he dreamed of traveling in space. Unlike most others, he’s building his own launch facility, now–at [...]
photo credit: bfick Once you create your blog, you’ve created the need to have not only content, but interesting content, several times a week. You want to find subjects that will keep your customers interested, make them want to interact with you, and that will also help them learn a little bit about what your [...]
Portrait Of An Entrepreneur: 40-Year-Old Family Man
Associated Press: What does an entrepreneur look like? A recent survey by the Kauffman Foundation, a pro-entrepreneur group, found that company founders, mostly in the technology sector, tended to be married, middle-class and middle-aged. • Family: Nearly 70 percent said they were married when they started the business. About 60 percent had at least one [...]
photo credit: Don Fulano In today’s business world it is no surprise that there are rumors going around in every company. Rumors of downsizing, cuts in pay and nasty rumors on layoffs. These rumors if not dealt with appropriately can become quite a bothersome act for all employees and end up causing large amounts of [...]
Mom-And-Pop Operators Key In A Marketing Edge
The New York Times: Three weeks after Curtis Kimball opened his crème brûlée cart in San Francisco, he noticed a stranger among the friends in line for his desserts. How had the man discovered the cart? He had read about it on Twitter. For Kimball, who conceded that he “hadn’t really understood the purpose of [...]
Free Printable Documents & Templates
Here’s a neat website I found this morning: FreePrintable.net. The site includes thousands of free printable documents and templates. The business section includes some very useful forms: Business Cards Fax Cover Sheets Stationery Cash Receipts Time Sheets Invoice Templates Business Form Templates Fax Cover Sheets Resume Templates Legal Pleading Templates Sample Resignation Letters Sample Cover [...]
photo credit: h.koppdelaney “Tips” are useless. “Systems” are unapproachable. “Techniques” are manipulative. “Moves,” however, DO work. What ever concept you choose to go with when marketing your product or service, your concept should almost explode in a way inside peoples minds. This is also known as an attention getter, something that is so spectacular they [...]
5 Bizs You Can Start For Under $20
About.com: Whether you’re starting a business on the side while still employed elsewhere, a student or homemaker looking for extra income, or unemployed and trying to figure out what to do, there are plenty of opportunities for you to start up a side business inexpensively. It’s unlikely any of these will make you a living [...]
Lawyer Turned Coach Builds The Wealth Spa To Help Likeminded Women Entrepreneurs
examiner.com: It’s not often we see the words “holistic” and “wealth” used in the same sentence, but holistic wealth is the theme Elizabeth Potts Weinstein promotes on her business coaching website, The Wealth Spa. “Being wealthy isn’t just about money,” Weinstein says. “We hear many stories about wealthy people who are miserable. What I like [...]
Mom’s Invention Makes Traveling With A Baby Easy
If you’ve ever had to travel with a baby, I’m willing to bet that you have a long list of necessities that are required to make the trip as pain-free as possible. Maybe you’d have a diaper bag on that list? How about a bottle warmer that you can use in the car? A storage [...]
