Archive for September 18th, 2009
Telegraph.Co.UK: Seeking Adult Drunk Clown For 30th Birthday Party “We need an Adult Drunk Clown who is good at getting drunk and stupid. No need to do any clown tricks, just hang out and drink a shit load. We will be hopping around to different bars and want a clown to tag a long and [...]
Niche Classifieds For Sneakerheads
Springwise: Dozens of online and print sources are devoted to the subculture of special sneakers. Equal parts community and classifieds site, SneakerListing is a new destination for enthusiasts to buy and sell limited edition footwear. Anyone can sign up for the free service by providing a valid email address, their shoe size and favourite brand. [...]
Self-Employed Are The Happiest
The New York Times: Business owners are the happiest workers in America, according to Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index poll data collected from January to August. Transportation and manufacturing workers have the lowest overall well-being. Some other observations: • The three occupations with the highest levels of well-being are those with the highest household income. • Self-employed [...]
What To Avoid During A Demonstration
photo credit: lumaxart Don’t make a demo in the hope that your customer will eventually see something of interest. Inexperienced salespeople often inflict these demos on their customers as a replacement for doing their homework. When putting on any sort of demonstration for viewers, it is very important that you not only make it packed [...]
Fortune Small Business: Two bills introduced on Capitol Hill aim to revise the tax code and get more money flowing into small business coffers. A bill from Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, would raise the deductible percentage of business meals from 50% to 80%. This could be a boon for America’s restaurants, 70% of which are [...]
Book Machine Prints Books in 4 Minutes for $3
Wired: Google Book Search, in partnership with On Demand Books, is letting readers turn those digital copies back into paper copies, individually printed by bookstores around the world. Or at least by those booksellers that have ordered its $100,000 Espresso Book Machine, which cranks out a 300 page gray-scale book with a color cover in [...]
photo credit: celine nadeau I recently came across a saying on Inc.com that made a lot of sense to me, it was, “if you can’t fit your idea on the back of a business card, then you don’t have a clear idea”. When you think about it, it does make a lot of sense. If [...]
Biz Poll: Accidental Entrepreneurs
Accidental Entrepreneurs The number of unemployed people age 45 and older has ballooned to 2.3 million. White-collar workers represent 46% of all people who were without work for 27 weeks or more in 2002, reports Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the outplacement firm. Many will never again find work at existing companies. Out of such dreary [...]
Mom Wins Quarter Mil To Help Keep Biz Afloat
11Alive.com: Lori Lite’s children’s books spring from a place of stress. “I didn’t plan on this, it happened in an instant, actually,” Lori said. Lori’s five-year-old son was hyper-active and stressed out. It took Lori and her husband more than two hours to get him to go to sleep every night. The Marietta mother of [...]
Workout Regime Is Perfect Fit For Moms
OCRegister.com: Before Tracey Mallett wrote “Super Fit Mama,” she felt like a super fat mama. The normally 115-pound fitness guru gained 55 pounds during her first pregnancy. She even delayed releasing a workout DVD because she didn’t feel good about herself. It took a year to lose the weight. To help other new moms avoid [...]
