Archive for October 7th, 2009
How To Get Yourself To Brainstorm
photo credit: brain_blogger Everyone experiences patches in life where they just cannot think straight, they can’t come up with any new ideas and they are facing a deadline. What to do? You need to do your work, you have to turn in something! Below are some tips I recently found on Toilet Paper Entrepreneur that [...]
35 Minute Video: How To Make Facebook Make You Money
Facebook Fan Pages are changing marketing for the better. Watch this video and find out how.
Say Goodbye to Training Wheels
Gyrobike: Training wheels are a thing of the past thanks to the revolutionary Gyrowheel. Gyrowheel not only keeps the bike from falling over, it also teaches correct riding technique. Gyrowheel senses unbalanced biking and re-centers the bike under the rider’s weight when the bike starts to wobble. Training wheels can’t do that! The magic is [...]
Skype Rolls Out Click-To-Call Ads
TechCrunch: Over the past few months, Skype has been testing click-to-call ads on the Web, partnering with local-business directories who pay for the calls. Skype is set to announce the official roll-out of its click-to-call advertising service with European Directories, one of the largest local business directory services in Europe. Turning phone numbers found on [...]
Kauffman Foundation Aids Entrepreneurs
The Daily Tell: Looking to help and inspire philanthropists across the country, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has created the “Build a Stronger America,” which will give entreprenuers a virtual space to discuss their various ventures while also helping them voice their opinions regarding the current economic climate. The campaign will help entrepreneurs and business [...]
Entrepreneur Finds Biz That’s Her Cup Of Tea
Star Tribune: By her own admission, Lindsey Valentini’s headlong flight into the gourmet tea business did not initially promise a very smooth landing. She had no idea how to create a marketable tea blend, Valentini said, noting that the results of experiments with various blends in her kitchen “weren’t nearly good enough.” Once she’d cleared [...]
Working With A Patent Attorney
IPWatchdog: Over the years I have received quite a number of e-mail inquiries and telephone calls from inventors who are looking for information and advice, perhaps even representation. 1. If you want to do business with a professional you need to be and act professional. Set up an appointment, speak with an assistant and go [...]
Is The Term ‘Small Business’ Demeaning?
The New York Times: Do you consider yourself a small-business owner? Or does that phrase make you cringe? Often, the terms entrepreneur and small-business owner are used interchangeably — but that’s not quite right either. Clearly, not all entrepreneurs are small-business owners and not all small-business owners are entrepreneurs. Still, there has to be some [...]
Necessity Gives Birth To Invention
The Santa Ynez Valley News: Tyler Gildred was standing in his barn in 2004, looking at industrial machine and car parts stacked to the ceiling. The Santa Ynez resident had just bought the inventory at an auction, and he was thinking there had to be an easier way to re-sell it all. “I was taking [...]
Staying Professional While Working From Home
Richmond Motherhood Examiner: There are several benefits to telecommuting, but a lot of the time raising kids while working from home just simply requires discipline. Here are some tips, developed through trial and error, to help you survive the most important balancing act you may face. 1. Get up, get dressed. Fight the temptation to [...]
