Archive for August 31st, 2009
Welcome Service Business: A Great Business Idea that Works
photo credit: mcclouds The following is a guest post from Bizymoms. If you love to meet new people and enjoy playing the host in your community, the Welcome Service business makes an idyllic choice of business for you. The basic task involved in this business is to welcome new residents and other people like newly [...]
Do you have a clean background with NO felonies? Is your business or non-profit easily accessible to consumers? Do you have 3 square feet of unused space that is currently sitting idle? Do you have high speed internet access at your place of business? Are you willing to be trained by phone to operate electronic [...]
Mistakes That Effect Your Freelance Success
photo credit: aussiegall Are you a freelancer who seems to hit a wall every avenue that you turn down? Does it seem like no matter what you do during your day something always goes wrong and you just don’t have the success that you think you should? Maybe your making one or more of [...]
80% Of People Use Twitter For Biz
Penn-Olson: According to a new research from Kamaron Research Institute, about 80% of the people use Twitter for business purposes. More than 8 in 10 listed “business” as the reason why they tweet. This holds true for younger twitter-ers as well. Nearly half of those aged 25 and under gave “business” as the primary reason [...]
photo credit: barto We all communicate with several people everyday, all day long, on a regular basis. But how do we know if we’re communicating in a proper and understandable way? There are 3 main types of communication, stated on Sales Management 2.0, to which all communication falls into one of those 3 categories. [...]
BBC: The internet has revolutionized the speed at which people communicate. Now the Swiss postal service is hoping to do the same for regular snail mail. The company offers a service called Swiss Post Box to customers wanting to receive their physical letters over the internet. More from the Swiss Post Box website: We first [...]
Reading Business Books Is Your Future
photo credit: Dawn Endico If you’re thinking about starting your own business, then you really should be thinking about what business books you need to be checking out of the library or buying on amazon.com. Famous business men such as Donald Trump and Warren Buffet have both said that reading business books are key to [...]
TechFlash: Looks like nothing is safe from becoming an advertisement these days. A newly surfaced Microsoft patent application proposes to create ads out of human interactive proofs, also known as CAPTCHAs, those lines of fuzzy or distorted text or images used by websites to confirm that submissions are coming from real human beings, not automated [...]
Communication Powers Your Performance
photo credit: Torley I came across an article located on Open Forum that talks about how your communication skills give power to your performance. Depending on how you communicate with your staff, team, boss and more, will depend on the performance outcome. Have you ever had a business situation where someone is describing something like [...]
IBM Patent Means Your TV Remote Will Twitter Too
Fast Company: It’s only a matter of time before someone releases a dedicated gadget for Tweeting. And now an IBM patent has surfaced implying that soon your TV remote control will do your microblogging for you. The network-enabled smart remote control would send out a digital message to initiate a blog post whenever you choose [...]
photo credit: Gunnar Wrobel It makes sense to buy a franchise with proven methods, marketing, and product rather than start your own from scratch right? But when getting ready to sign that contract, how do you know that the contract is completely truthful? Below are some franchise contract time bombs to look out for. [...]
Your Idea Sucks, Now Go Do It Anyway
A Smart Bear: My idea isn’t good enough yet” explained a friend who is thinking of starting his own company. He was waiting for the idea to be completely fleshed our before taking the leap. Here’s a newsflash: Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn’t matter because your business will probably turn out to be [...]
Manage Your Attention Rather Than Your Time
photo credit: fdecomite We are always on the look out for ways to better manage our time. The problem with that is we don’t realize that time is fixed for everyone, you can not “make” more time, you can not get back lost time. “The myth of time management never dies. Many people enroll in [...]
Americans Watched a Record-Setting 21.4 Billion Web Videos
Fast Company: Ah, summertime. There’s no better time of year to shutter oneself indoors and watch videos on the Web–at least that’s what the latest numbers released by comScore would suggest. In July, 158 million U.S. Internet users watched a record-setting 21.4 billion online videos, a full 88% more than they watched during the same [...]
From The Corner Office To Flex-Mom
Women are quickly becoming aware of what working from their own home (whether it is for an employer or by starting a home business) can do for them. A great example of what flex time can do for a mom, and the company that employes her, is shown in this article from the Huffington Post. [...]
Eco-Friendly Wall Art With A Green Message For Kids
Of all the trends to take advantage of, the earth-friendly one is probably the best one to consider. It is good for the earth and, thanks to this trend, the options to choose from are becoming much more plentiful. This includes the art in your kids’ bedroom. Greenie2Steps is bringing a whole new theme and [...]
