Archive for September 28th, 2009
Do you clean houses for a living? Would you like to expand your business but are too busy actually cleaning to market your services? Do you even know where to start? Maid Services of America is a house cleaning business opportunity and can show you how to make the change from house cleaner to successful [...]
Learning From Martha: 10 Rules For Starting A Biz
WomenHomeBusiness: What does it take to really need to successfully start a business? Martha Stewart, one of the most successful women in business today, lists down the essential elements to start an entrepreneurial venture in her book “The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Grow, or Manage a Business.” The idea [...]
What Makes A Good Entrepreneur?
Gannett News Service: Most business books and experts assert that there’s just one kind of person who can be a successful entrepreneur. you have to be a risk taker, extroverted, a natural salesperson, a leader of others willing to work ’round the clock and a visionary. Look around: You may know someone who’s self-employed, making [...]
Charging Just A Little Can Be Smarter Than Charging Nothing At All
Fast Company: The strategy of giving everything away often creates as many hassles as it solves. Why charging just a little can be smarter than charging nothing at all. Why? Because free costs too much, weighed down with hassles that you’ll happily pay a little to do without. That’s why people buy bottled water and [...]
Used Books: A Great Business Opportunity
Used books don’t go away once they’ve been read once. They stick around for a long, long time and can make you lots of money.
photo credit: Torley Systematize the Best Solutions. Once you’ve chosen the BEST solutions, create a system that solves them forever, so they don’t come up again or that anyone is able to fix them. Create so many systems that it makes people cringe. That’s organization. I recently came across a great article on Sentiment Of [...]
Twitter Changing The Way Nonprofits Make The Ask
Fast Company: Can non-profits raise awareness, increase membership, and–most critically–“make the ask” successfully on Twitter? Can a 140-character message deliver the visceral wallop of, say, heart-wrenching footage of starving children covered in flies or the sad eyes of a neglected and abused animal? The answer is yes. According to Beth Kanter, author of Beth’s Blog: [...]
photo credit: ottonassar As a business owner we know that one of our most powerful tools to our company is our website. Through our website our clients can contact us, place orders, ask questions, read about us and how we got to where we are, leave helpful suggestions and requests, leave reviews regarding our service [...]
10 Tools Small Business Marketers Should Have
photo credit: Nikolay Bachiyski If you are like most of the business people out there, you are someone who works constantly, you try to squeeze 35 hours worth of work into a single 24 hour day, you find yourself feeling overwhelmed and always behind on your work. You know that efficiency is one of the [...]
Inventor Has A Lock On Unique Product
Orlando Sentinel: In the aftermath of the 2004 hurricane season, several clients of Michael Cennamo’s home-trim business complained of leaks from their front doors damaged from the storms. The 57-year-old Eustis resident wanted to come up with a solution to make entrance doors stronger during powerful storms. He invented a safety lock bolt to install [...]
Uncle Sam Can Help Home-Based Biz
AllBusiness.com: It’s quite a staggering fact that in the last few years home-based businesses have grown to represent 52% of all small businesses and 10 percent of the total receipts of the economy (approximately $314 billion), according to the Small Business Administration (SBA). At the root of this trending is the fact that of all [...]
Instead Of Competing, Find An Empty Niche
Businessweek: The lone entrepreneur, the business that decides to stay small on purpose, or the aspiring microcelebrity, the strategy of negating competition by owning your space may be right up your alley. Here’s how to do it. • First, become the name that comes up when people think of the space you want to own. [...]
Anti-Obama Entrepreneur Kicked Out of Mall
Dan Fuchs operates a small mall kiosk in Johnson City, Tennessee. His business, Graphic Edge, prints slogans and graphics on t-shirts, coffee mugs, and bumper stickers. Unfortunately for him, more than half of his business came from anti-Obama merchandise, sos the mall has decided to kick him out.. Johnson City Press: Friday afternoon, Fuchs was [...]
We Are The New Business Owners
More and more moms are looking for a way to bring some money into the household without having to physically leave it. For that reason, we are becoming the new business owners. As the mom in ‘mom and pop’ continues to expand into the world of business, some wonderful resources are sprouting up to offer [...]
Artisanal Cookies At Farmers Markets
The Dallas Morning News: Farmers markets are more than great places to find farm-fresh fruits, vegetables and meats. They’re also perfect spots to buy direct from artisan producers, little guys making everything from cheese to chocolates. It’s not too late in the season to discover three bakeries – Tough Cookie Bakery, Wackym’s Kitchen and Kessler [...]
