Archive for October 1st, 2009
Sports Team Hires Own Reporter
The New York Times: If your business depends on free publicity from newspapers, what do you do when the papers can no longer afford to send reporters to cover you? In professional sports, the answer, increasingly, is hire your own. The Los Angeles Kings hockey team last week hired Rich Hammond, who had covered the [...]
From $0 To $170 Million In Three Years
Bloggingstocks.com: It was only three years ago that Aaron Patzer started Mint.com, a free web-based financial planning site. In his mid 20s, he encountered much skepticism. But, this was no problem for Aaron. He realized he could make a difference. And he certainly did. This week, he sold Mint.com for a cool $170 million to [...]
Inventor, Entrepreneur Becomes Successful On-Air Vendor
Hartford Courant: Christmas decorations are already up at the Miller house in Glastonbury as QVC, the popular TV shopping network, shoots footage that will air during the holiday shopping season. On Friday, the cameras focused on several novelty items designed by Garold Miller: a suction cup that secures holiday candles to the window and a [...]
Increase Your Productivity Working From Home
Noobpreneur: Ah – work at home. A dream that turns into reality to many, including me. The idea of working in your pajamas and work as you like (and how you like it) is intriguing. To me, working at home is freedom; working at home brings you more ‘power’ to control your life and money [...]
Small businesses often think that television advertising is too costly and cumbersome for them to use. But Google TV Ads changes all of that – we make it easy and affordable for you to make a TV ad, plan a campaign, and reach your customers through the power of television. Google TV Ads and SpotMixer [...]
New Web Privacy Rules May Cost e-Bizs
Inc.: Few people are aware of just how much personal information is collected from their daily web activity except for the online businesses that depend on that data, but Congress, however, may soon be stepping in to change that. According to a recent article by the Associated Press, Rep. Rick Boucher, D-V.a., chairman of the [...]
photo credit: bogenfreund The thought of actually sitting down and scheduling some lazy “do absolutely nothing” time probably seems very stupid as well as a waste of time. Entrepreneurs, especially those who are constantly on the go between their company and their families, really need to schedule some time to where they just sit back, [...]
Newbie Entrepreneur Creates Sled For Grown-Ups
CNNMoney: Steve Luhr worked in medical equipment sales but yearned to become an entrepreneur. When a rival firm bought out his employer in 2002, Luhr received eight months’ notice and the motivation to do his own thing. Luhr, who lives in Shelburne, Vt., enlisted Minneapolis product designer Bob Worrell to brainstorm on a sleek reimagining [...]
photo credit: wili_hybrid When you’re in a management position, especially if you’re new to that position, you often want to be so helpful and in tune with the rest of your team that you can actually make a few mistakes that end up pushing your team away from you or become counter productive. Below are [...]
Myths About Employee Incentive Programs
photo credit: alicepopkorn ( in and out ) I recently came across an article located on Open Forum that I can’t help but disagree with. It’s an article regarding the top 10 myths about offering employee incentive programs in your company, where they basically state that providing employee incentive programs is a bad idea. Even [...]
Seven Solopreneur Survival Tips
Inc.: Many solopreneurs feel the tug between personal obligations and their business. The question appears to be, how do we divide our time, become more productive, and let go of the guilt? There are ways to to achieve this. 1. Get things out of your head and onto paper; it helps to decrease your mental [...]
Fruit Crate Labels Are His Business
Colfax Record: It’s not often that you find your future in a box discarded behind the supermarket. But not much about Weimar historian, author and artist Pat Jacobsen’s career path has been typical. Jacobsen stumbled upon some boxes of old fruit crate labels in 1978, just as the young musician was moving into his first [...]
Web Hosting Tips For Start Ups
photo credit: Torley Understanding Marketing: The majority of small businesses realize the importance of having a solid Web presence that leaves a positive and lasting impression on customers. Many fear, though, that a professionally designed Web site will cost more than what’s in the budget. After all, it’s easy to look around and find lots [...]
Inc.: To reach the more technology-savvy audience of entrepreneurs, the Small Business Administration has partnered with the video sharing website YouTube to create a channel dedicated to posting informational videos. Launched last month, this channel debuted with a 60-second introduction to the administration, its programs and services. As of Monday, SBA’s channel boasted 141 subscribers, [...]
How To Spread Content No Matter What It Is
photo credit: svensonsan When doing any sort of writing, especially for business, the biggest and most important goal is for you to generate as much traffic to your content as you can. Businesses won’t make money off of this content without the proper traffic reading it, following it, and spreading the word about it to [...]
Use Of Exit Surveys To Improve Customer Retention
photo credit: henribergius Often times customers who are unhappy with the service they have received from a business will not tell the company about their bad experience nor will they go back to that company in the future. Instead, they move on to find another company that gives them the experience they want with the [...]
Bits, Bytes & Bots Makes Learning About Technology An Adventure
You might refer to it as camp or education but if your child enjoys working with technology, they will most likely just call it fun. Bits, Bytes, & Bots provides “FUNdamental Technology Education™” for children that want to have fun while learning. Tom Marx, the founder and CEO, had sent his own son off to [...]
While summer is over and the kids are back in school, it is never too early to start building up some ideas for how to survive next summer. The right idea might also help you combine time with your family, and a little side business for yourself. Over the summer one mom decided that her [...]
