Archive for September 2nd, 2009
photo credit: AMagill Billionaire Mark Cuban has written a very information post explaining how not to ask for money in email: The first thing I do at this point is look at the senders email address. Is it an email with the company name in the URL ? If it isnt.. ding, ding, ding. They [...]
photo credit: madebytess When setting out to hire new talent for your company, the challenge of finding the absolute best there is can be very frustrating and time consuming. With so many people out of work today, you are bound to have hundreds of applications rolling in just for one position to fill! I [...]
Cut Your Costs Rather Than Your Employees
photo credit: lepiaf.geo In today’s economy we are seeing so many people being put out of work only to find that the company still ends up going bankrupt. Why is this? A big reason is because often times no matter how many employees are let go, the costs that the company has still ends [...]
photo credit: davitydave All business owners are constantly trying to find better, easier, and cost effective ways for obtaining more customers and thus increasing their profits greatly. I recently came across an article on Small Biz Bee that listed some ways to win more customers for free! Charities. Name Tags. Freebies. Better voicemails and voicemail [...]
LA Times: As far as the Rev. Darrell Best knows, he has the fastest church in Illinois. His 1942 firetruck is by no means a Ferrari, but it is equipped as a fully functioning chapel. “I’ve had it up to 55 mph,” Best said. “It gets a lot of attention on the highway.” Mechanics from [...]
Facebook Page Factors To Remember
photo credit: benstein Everyone is jumping on the Facebook train including businesses, at least if they are smart they are. There are tens of thousands of users on Facebook, that is a lot of contacts that you could be targeting for your company and bringing yourself a ton of traffic. However, when setting up [...]
Business Week: On a visit to Portland, Ore., about three years ago, Bill Leikam watched curiously as his brother used an odd piece of plywood to pull a hot rack from of the oven. “I said: ‘What was that?’” recalls Leikam. It was the family’s “oven buddy” he was told. Like every inventor, Leikam believed [...]
When you play golf, do you carry your own clubs or pay a caddy to do it for you? One golf course in Cedar Mountain, North Carolina has decided to differentiate itself from the other local course by offering a unique variety of caddy: llamas! Llamas are available every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 9am [...]
When It Comes To Your Work-At-Home Income, Diversify
If you depend solely on one source for income, your business just as likely to take a nose dive when a situation arises as someone who depends on one sole income from an employer. To avoid such a circumstance, you need more than one revenue source to stay afloat. CurrentMom recently elaborated on revenue sources [...]
photo credit: pfala In business it can become very difficult over the years to continuously manage your cash flow. Often times as business owners we get into a groove of letting things slide here and there, letting customers slide here and there, and before we know it our cash flow is much less than what [...]
Cashing in on Cash For Clunkers
ShoeMoney: Huber Chevrolet told me about how they had a separate sales division that did nothing but answer phone calls and emails from internet leads and they valued each of those at XX (they asked me not to reveal the specifics). I told them I would charge them $10 per internet lead (a small fraction [...]
photo credit: trec_lit Slate: Given the equine subterfuge that precipitated the sack of Troy, Trojan condoms are curiously named—deception is not a quality one typically looks for in a prophylactic. Consumers, however, don’t seem to mind: Trojans reign supreme in America’s nightstand drawers and billfolds. The various types of Trojan—Ultra Ribbed, Magnum XL, Warm Sensations—account [...]
Company Enlists Reps To Sell Their ‘Scent’sational Products
For many direct selling has offered them a viable source of income with all of the benefits of being their own boss. By offering the flexible hours that some people require, companies like Scent-sations have helped many launch their own home business. Scent-sations is home to the well known Mia Bella brand. They offer a [...]
