Archive for October 26th, 2009
Social Networking Do’s and Don’ts
The following is a guest post by Veronica Fielding. As the unemployment rate rises, people are turning to social networking sites to make important business connections. Many recruiters post vacancies and search for passive candidates on LinkedIn. Facebook, one of the best-known social media sites on the Internet today, has become a valuable way of [...]
Did Sears Just Win Online Book Biz?
Fast Company: Last week, Wal-Mart cut the price of some popular new books to just $10, a slice of over 60%. Not willing to be out-done on home turf, Amazon matched them. Wal-Mart went down to $9. Amazon went to $8.99. Target jumped in tardily at $8.99. Then Sears jaunted into the battle and dropped [...]
The following is a guest post by Robert Tuchman. Service is more than just putting your hand out for a handshake. It’s making sure your customer will shake hands again and will introduce you to the other people to shake hands with. It is not something that needs to be obtained on an intellectual level, [...]
This looks interesting: LaunchYourLine.com released a new website today aimed at empowering entrepreneurs to start their own line of any number of products. With plenty of people starting new businesses in today’s challenging economy, LaunchYourLine.com is designed specifically for enterprising businesspeople who have dreamed of owning more than just their own business but establishing a [...]
Help Wanted: Charmin Ambassador
The Village Voice reports that Charmin (the toilet paper company) is holding auditions on Nov. 5 for “five super-fun, enthusiastic people” who “really, really enjoy going to the bathroom” to serve as Times Square Toilet Ambassadors from Thanksgiving through Christmas. Their job, which will pay $10k for five weeks, is to entertain people who are [...]
Boomer Trends: Before It’s Gone
About.com has an interesting article about baby boomer trends and how to profit from them. One of the big baby boomer trends is the compulsion to see it/do it before it can’t be seen or done anymore. The Great Wall, the Great Barrier Reef, Venice – boomers feel a need to visit places, species and [...]
Startup Makes Beer In A Way Others Don’t
The Akron Beacon Journal reports that when Matt and Kathy Chappel decided to open the Indigo Imp Brewery in Cleveland, they wanted their beer to stand apart. So they opted for an unusual beer-making process — at least for U.S. brewers. They use open fermentation, which exposes the soon-to-be beer to the air and means [...]
Hatching New Ideas All The Time
Ask Cindi Witker what she does for a living and you could get a different answer every time. Business First reports that the 59-year-old entrepreneur runs a marketing business that specializes in medical companies, does event planning, launched a medical job Web site in September and has operated a media consulting service. Witker, whose rapid-fire [...]
Break Bad Habits, Make More Money
Maybe you’re thinking you’d boost business if you exhibited greater confidence, assertiveness or agility, or made clearer, faster decisions, or weren’t so irritable. No question, there’s plenty of upside to making some adjustments so writes Fortune Small Business. But changing an ingrained pattern, whether behavioral or emotional, is one of life’s greatest challenges. Entrepreneurs like [...]
Web Entrepreneur Gets Mileage Out Of Site
An article in The Columbus Dispatch reports that a couple of years ago, Michael Bragg of Apopka, Fla., noticed his girlfriend (now his wife) jotting something down in a small notebook. She was keeping track of her car’s fuel mileage. “Her family had always done that,” he said, “and she just started doing it, too.” [...]
Teen T-Shirt Entrepreneur Meets Obama
CBS News has a great story about an entrepreneur who won $10,000 and met President Obama. 17-year-old Kalief Rollins got to the White House by spreading positive messages of hope and empowerment. He’s the future of America; He’s the promise of a new generation; He’s … the president of the Phree Country clothing company. It [...]
How many minutes are spent on Facebook daily? 75 million 100 million 8 billion 15 billion View Results Answer on Wednesday. Photo by facebook.
Mom’s Take Boy’s Clothing Line National
OCRegister.com: Ladera Ranch mom Kim Marquis was sick of dressing her 4-year-old and 1-year-old sons in boring clothes when she dreamed up Haute Boyz Clothing with friend and business partner Jill Hoffman of Laguna Niguel. “We couldn’t find anything we liked, so we started making (shirts) ourselves,” said Hoffman, the mother of a young son. [...]
