Archive for October 28th, 2009
Selling Health Tips To Globe Trotters
Fortune Small Business has an interesting article about dispensing advice and vaccines for world travelers. While running health services at the University of Baltimore in the early 1990s, Fran Lessans met a law student who was petrified about the prospect of attending her mother-in-law’s funeral in Ghana. The young woman had visited the country once [...]
Good idea or not? Photo by GoGorillamedia.
In the two years since he lost his job as a cook, Kevin Boudreau has learned the subtle art of how to ask strangers for money. But now, with winter approaching and an aversion to shelters, the homeless man with the grizzled goatee and skull tattoos covering both arms needs more than spare change reports [...]
Inventor Turns Discarded Coconut Shells Into Clothing
More than 60 clothing companies, including well known brands like Adidas, Eddie Bauer and Dockers, are using a material designed by a Colorado company which employs coconut shells to create clothes that dry faster, smell better and save energy while laundering reports 9News.com. It may sound crazy, but Boulder-based Cocona actually uses carbon from left [...]
If you happen to be on Pike Street In New York’s Chinatown between now and November 14th, you might catch a glimpse of “R-O-B” the bricklaying robot building a 7,000 brick “Infinite Loop” sculpture along a pedestrian island so reports gadget blog Gizmodo. Designed by Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, the Infinite Loop has been [...]
About.com reports that the baby boomer generation is so large that it encompasses a whole range of life events. One of the larger subsets of the boomer demographic is those who are currently dealing with aged parents or soon to be about to. Many baby boomers feel incapable of dealing with their parents’ problems themselves. [...]
Include A Personal Touch On Your Website
photo credit: Noah Sussman It’s not personal–it’s business. A mantra heard by business people through the years, but when it comes to our business websites, it’s more personal than business. Living online today is social, and that means personal. To attract customers and keep them, you need to think about the social touches that can [...]
Small Bizs Ready To Hire Again
Small Business Startup News reports that a new survey of hiring expectations brings good news for small business owners looking for signs to expand again – about 44 percent of small businesses say they plan to hire new employees in the next year. The Intuit Payroll survey finds small business owners expressing greater confidence in [...]
photo credit: linh.ngân I recently came across an article on Entrepreneur.com regarding how important employee reviews are to your company and I couldn’t agree with more. Employee reviews today are more important now then they ever have been before with such a huge pool of unemployed people out there. Your annual reviews serve several purposes [...]
Youngsters No Longer Need License to Sell Lemonade
photo credit: evmaroon Tulare Advance-Register: Young Tulare entrepreneurs wanting to operate stands selling homemade lemonade or other beverages won’t have to pay for a business license, but there are rules. For example, they can only do business on school holidays and vacation time, Friday after school and weekends. Those are two of the 10 requirements [...]
On Monday we asked readers what their guess was for how many minutes are spent on Facebook daily? 17 per cent said 75 million, 43 per cent guessed 100 million, 30 per cent 8 billion and 10 per cent selected 15 billion. More than 8 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day, Facebook executive [...]
Mum’s The Word For Canada’s New Business Owners
thestar.com: Throw a load of clothes in the washer. Put new pricing and client testimonials on website. Pay the hydro bill. Submit final proposal. Pick up the kids from school. Schedule conference call with new customer. Make dinner. Sound like a typical laundry list from a busy mom’s `to do’ list? It is … except [...]
