Archive for October 20th, 2009
Reader’s Digest has an interesting profile and interview with the guy who parlayed a childhood fascination with computers into one of the nation’s most-visited news websites, Kevin Rose. Digg.com gets 35 million different visitors a month. One link from Digg’s home page can produce a tsunami of traffic that can turn a Web newcomer into [...]
When asked about their company’s policies for monitoring employees, more than one third of business owners say that they do not screen employee computer use in any way. An Inc.com poll, which surveyed readers between September 22 through October 6 and received 305 respondents, found that 25 percent of companies blocked “unproductive” sites like YouTube, [...]
Training Employees Will Boost Your Sales
photo credit: coxy Inc.com: Investing up front in your new employees will save a lot of time — and even customer service — from all parts of your company in the long run, and it’ll show in your sales numbers. Start today. Training your employees sounds like it is a no brainer concept, something that [...]
photo credit: Ivan Walsh Are you thinking about hiring someone to write your business plan for you? If so, you might want to consider some of these questions from Tim Berry: If you wanted to get your body in shape, would you hire somebody else to eat better and exercise regularly? How would you feel [...]
Urban Beekeeping Kit For Honey Lovers
Trendspotter Springwise has a sweet article on urban beekeeping. Omlet’s Beehaus kit brings the practice back down to earth for individual consumers. The Beehaus comes as a complete hive ready for colonization, with all the parts necessary including honey jars and a comprehensive beekeeping guide. Priced at GBP 465, the Beehaus is available in a [...]
Don’t Waste Your Time Away In A Networking Group
photo credit: pfala Entrepreneur.com: Success in a networking group comes when the rest of the group members trust you enough to open up their best referrals to you. Unless they’ve seen your work, you have to earn that trust by demonstrating your professionalism to them. Since founding BNI almost 25 years ago, I’ve seen how [...]
photo credit: Las Valley 702 OpenForum.com: Branding. We’re done with that word. Instead, focus your efforts on expressing your identity fully and freely. Concentrate on transferring your passion to others. Make what you sell a natural extension of your personality. It won’t feel or look like branding, and as such, people will buy it. When [...]
Nurture Your Employees Like You Nurture Your Kids
photo credit: carvalho When people think about children, they tend to think that their minds work in a way that is much simpler than that of adults. However, they are just miniature adults. Their minds work in much the same manner as that of a 30 or 40 year old. Take, for example, when your [...]
Inside Edition reports on 13-year-old Maddie Bradshaw who designs and sells thousands of Snap Caps — colorful bottle caps that can be worn as charms on necklaces, bracelets, and hairpins. Photo by OMLET.
When victimized by workplace food thieves, some curse, others write threatening notes. Some might even contemplate surveillance cameras, if they’re hit often enough. Being an inventor, Sherwood Forlee found another way to fight back when his sandwiches repeatedly went missing from the communal fridge at the SoHo ad agency where he worked reports The New [...]
Shoppers who have cut their spending — some drastically — during the downturn are now suffering from what some call “frugal fatigue” so reports The Washington Post. Most ardent shoppers don’t seem to be giving in to their cravings yet: Consumer spending was sluggish last month, and credit card debt is waning. But with the [...]
Home Business Is A ‘Peace Of Cake!’
Idaho Statesman: Being a working mom – in or outside the home – can be a challenge, but for one Star mother of two young children, it’s a Peace of Cake! For the past 2 1/2 years, Mindy Lin of Star has taken advantage of naps, bedtime and a supportive family to turn her creative [...]
Mom’s Are Wiping Out Competition, One Boogie At A Time
There are plenty of puns that I could use to introduce Julie Pickens & Mindee Doney. When you enter the type of business that they have, it’s hard to avoid them. Rather than pick on them, these women deserve to be applauded. If you’ve ever chased after a child with a runny nose and found [...]
