Archive for August 25th, 2009
Entrepreneur: If you’ve ever watched cable television late at night or early in the morning, you’ve seen these “ads.” Favorites seem to be weight loss programs, exercise equipment, secret health cures and wealth-generating systems. However, I’ve seen everything from knife sets and car-cleaning cloths to tools. Here are five steps to help you avoid a [...]
Fortune Small Business: Bob MacLeod was a talent agent and Steve Byckiewicz a flight attendant in 1980 when they ditched city life for a farmhouse and a fresh start. Unlikely entrepreneurs, they were mostly interested in gardening and entertaining. But dwindling savings prompted them to launch a business inspired by their healthy lifestyle. Almost 30 [...]
Useful Presentation Tools For Marketing
photo credit: MGShelton When putting together a presentation it can be agitating trying to figure out the best tools to use and the best way to put it all together so it will not only keep everyones attention but will also look professional and run smoothly. Below are some extremely useful tools that are [...]
Bismarck Tribune: Dustin Staeffler, 28, will fold up the motorized scooter into a cube, lift its 63-pound frame into your trunk and drive your car home, with you in it, for $22 within seven miles of an establishment that serves alcohol. “A lot of people don’t believe me yet because it’s so new,”he said. “They [...]
Your Book as Your Business Card
photo credit: miss_rogue The following is a guest post by Melissa Sileo. What is 6″ by 9,” usually weighs roughly one pound, and is giving an increasing number of business leaders an advantage over the competition? A book. Thanks in large part to the explosion of Indie book publishing, the use of ‘the book as [...]
Building Your Community On Your Site
photo credit: woodleywonderworks Having an active community behind you can increase sales, build your brand, and serve as your very own volunteer promotional army to help get your word out. But how do you go about creating one? How do you jump start that feeling of community on your site so that you’re able to [...]
Frustrated Tweets New Headache For Airlines
Reuters: Indignant letters, e-mails and phone calls can still get results for unhappy airline travelers, but more are finding that if you really want to vent your frustrations, you can now be loud and fast and public. At least that’s the buzz on Twitter, where airlines are discovering that fuming passengers who have been stranded, [...]
photo credit: Matt Callow Bill Wyman: The problem of the daily press in the U.S. is exclusively this: the collapse of its business model. That model used to be, plainly put, making money—a lot of money, oceans of money—delivering advertising on newsprint into peoples’ homes. Subscribers didn’t pay for news. Advertisers did. Remember “shoppers,” the [...]
Simplify Your Day With Two Steps
photo credit: arquera More often than not our days are hectic, stressful, and complicated when they don’t need to be, and we are usually the cause of it. Here are two very simple steps I recently read about on Harvard Business in making your day simpler. Start with your own actions and behavior. Think about all of [...]
Business Goes On After Founder’s Death
SeacostOnline: When Al Case died unexpectedly this summer he was close to fulfilling his dream of opening a second location of his longtime business. Just several weeks after his sudden death, Case’s daughter Brittany and wife Joelle saw his dream to fruition. The two women went forward with plans to open a new location of [...]
Gmail Now Third Largest Webmail Service In US
AppScout: Gmail nabbed the number three spot in the Webmail wars last month, edging past AOL to become the third largest service behind Yahoo and Live Hotmail. The Google-run service racked up 37 million uniques, squeaking past AOL’s 36.4 million, according to comScores numbers. Gmail still has a little ways to go before it can [...]
Family Business Comes Full Circle
coshoctorntribune.com: Edie Ryan is back where she got her start. Edie Ryan’s Family Restaurant made the move this week from its 402 S. Second St. location to 585 S. Whitewoman St., a spot known for more than 50 years as Spitler’s Restaurant. “This is where I first started waitressing in Coshocton,” Ryan said. She opened [...]
Resources For El Paso Mompreneurs
I recently found an article that was posted a short while back by the El Paso Motherhood Examiner that offers a lot of valuable information for mompreneurs in the El Paso region. Below are some of the resources that Lisa Clark mentioned: Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce: This organization offers opportunity for networking, staying [...]
Mom’s Invention Keeps Car Seats From Becoming Overheated
The moment you open your car door on a hot summer day, it comes as no surprise that the interior can be extremely hot. Especially if you’ve had the misfortune of touching the metal part of the seatbelt while trying to buckle yourself in. Deborah Lowe was putting her baby girl in the car when [...]
