Archive for August 20th, 2009
Repeal the ‘Health-Care Tax’ on the Self Employed
photo credit: Hey Paul Business Week: Missing from Washington’s health-reform discussion is a simple change that would make insurance more affordable for millions of the nation’s smallest business owners by letting them fully deduct the cost of their health insurance premiums. By a quirk in the tax code, self-employed workers who buy their own health [...]
About.com: Scientists claim ants can carry more than 50 times their body weight. Milton Levine knows ants can carry far more than that – like the success of his business, Uncle Milton Industries, for 50 years. In 2006, while my father celebrates his 93rd birthday, his famous product, Ant Farm, celebrates its 50th “ant-iversary” of [...]
Building on the Ideas of Others
The following is a guest post by Frances Bajet. photo credit: egenerica True or false: George Lucas, Bill Gates, and Larry Page are the epitome of innovation, whose creations (Star Wars, Microsoft, and Google, respectively) represent the ultimate in original thinking. False. If you got the answer correctly, you’re already one giant leap ahead of [...]
Reporter-News: On a warm Wednesday morning, David Dantzler pulls out a couple of pages of meticulously written charts that detail just how many eggs his 36 chickens have produced. For about nine months now, David, 13, has commanded the clucking crowd, selling their eggs as part of his own in-home business. Later, as he reaches [...]
Working With Your Virtual Assistant
photo credit: antjeverena In today’s world of technology, booming Internet applications, and businesses, many online business owners are going out and finding themselves a VA (Virtual Assistant). There are many different aspects to having a VA versus a regular assistant. Open Forum recently listed some thing’s to remember when working with your VA. You [...]
Got a Biz Idea? Tweet Richard Branson
Richard Branson is now accepting “micropitches” via Twitter for new startup ideas. Tweet your business idea to @PerfectBusines and use the hashtag #micropitch. (Unfortunately, that does mean you only have 111 characters left.) It’s all part of The Perfect Pitch 2009 Entrepreneur & Investor Conference Pitches will be evaluated on clarity, viability, consumer need, growth [...]
photo credit: luc legay Many business owners are looking for ways to grow their profits every year. They keep hoping there will be easier ways to see their profits go up on their charts, but sadly many of them don’t know of any easy ways to help their profits grow. Below are some tips on [...]
Does Starting A Business Make You Feel Crazy?
photo credit: Emery_Way When starting a new business, through all the transitions and setting up, many people sit down and begin to wonder if they are truly going crazy. This is a normal feeling when starting a business as stated on Open Forum. Starting a business makes everyone at some point think they are [...]
How To Keep Your Great Employees
photo credit: ArtemFinland Many businesses today have quite a few great employees that they want to keep on their staff, but they can not necessarily offer them more money. Many think that if they can’t offer more money, those employees will walk. Some might if more money is a need of theirs, but some [...]
Is Small Business Credit Reaching A Turning Point?
photo credit: =Lonely.X.Poet= I recently came across an article located on Business Week that may give some small business owners peace of mind and a new sense of hope for their businesses future. Everything that has a beginning must have an end, this is even true for depressions and recessions, and we may be looking [...]
Self-Service At Bars: A Tap At Every Table
Springwise: When heading out to their local watering hole for a drink, some customers prefer to serve themselves. The TableTender system, available in Britain and the United States, is designed and built for each specific venue. There’s a tap (or several) located at each table, which allows patrons to pour at their leisure—to a point. [...]
U.S. Patent Office Backlogged, Inventors Wait
Al’s Morning Meeting: The U.S. Patent Office is sitting on a mountain of applications that would take at least six years to clear, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found in a two-part investigation. The newspaper points out that a patent could be the key that protects an upstart company or idea. It could ignite the economy, [...]
Mom's Business Is To Send Your Kids Mail
examiner.com: Clever mompreneur, Sherri-Lee Pressman, took note of just how much her kids loved getting mail. In fact, she says her kids would often ask, “Is there any mail for me?” “I literally came up with the idea standing at the mail box with my then three year old son asking if there was any [...]
The Web Has Changed Job Searching
BusinessWeek: The Internet has changed a lot of things over the past decade or two—including how we search for jobs. Sure, the basics are the same: Find an opening and apply for it. But the Web has permanently altered the employment process. And with more than 1.2 million info tech jobs lost this year, according [...]
