Archive for November 3rd, 2009
The following is a guest post by David Gash. When starting a new business, entrepreneurs invariably face the brutal moment when they realize something needs to be done and they just don’t know how to do it. We let dentists fix our teeth and mechanics fix our cars; so why do we expect that when [...]
photo credit: midiman 37Signals: Making money takes practice, just like playing the piano takes practice. No one expects anyone to be any good at the piano unless they’ve put in lots practice. Same with making money. The more you practice the better you get. Eventually making money is as easy for you as piano is [...]
A Spanish firm says it’s on track to take paying guests at the first ever hotel in outer space in 2012. A three-night stay at the Galactic Suite Space Resort will cost you about $4.4 million, but that includes an eight-week training course on a tropical island. At least 40 people have already made reservations. [...]
$5 and 2 Hours: How Much Could You Make?
If you had 5 dollars and 2 hours, how would you make as much money as possible? VentureBeat: There’s a classroom exercise that’s a part of the Stanford technology venture program hits its students with each year: If you had five dollars and two hours, what would you do to make as much money as [...]
What The Web Will Look Like In 5 Years
Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at last week’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo about what the web will look like in 5 years. ReadWriteWeb has highlights from Schmidt’s speech: • Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content. • Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – [...]
Homebizlist and Homebizlast are Probably Scams
I’ve been getting a lots of calls and emails about Homebizlist.com and Homebizlast.com today. Seems that someone is hacking Facebook accounts today and posting false status updates with links to these sites. Homebizlist.com and Homebizlast.com are almost certainly scams. If you have website, you can apply for Adsense for no cost at http://www.google.com/adsense If you [...]
iPhone App Created $1 Million in Sales
Mashable: More and more companies are creating iPhone applications as a way to reinforce branding and to gain new customers. Some companies are even seeing increased sales thanks to iPhone apps. One of those is the Pizza Hut app [iTunes link] for the iPhone and iPod touch, which has now generated more than $1 million [...]
cashURwheels is an Australian firm that serves as an online marketplace connecting drivers directly with companies interested in vehicle-based ads reports trendspotter Springwise. Whereas carvertising agencies ask drivers to register their vehicles in the hopes of eventually being one of the few selected to be part of a large campaign, cashURwheels connects drivers directly with [...]
Business Week: Dan Reynolds didn’t set out to become an entrepreneur. Instead, the full-time firefighter and former commercial truck salesman from suburban Chicago wanted to hire on with a big crime-scene cleanup company. But when he was treated rudely during his interview in early 2007, he vowed to found his own company as payback. His [...]
Which Trolls Are Lurking Under Your Business Bridges?
photo credit: Roshan V Just like in the fairy tale movies created by Disney, businesses also contain trolls that lurk under your bridges to other business adventures. These trolls can be seemingly harmless provided you don’t fall into their trap. However, if you slip and fall right into their hands, these trolls can prove to [...]
How To Set Your Business Hours
photo credit: zappowbang Some small businesses in rather small “mom and pop” type of towns have for a long time set hour’s of operation at the low end of the spectrum, having open times equalling a mere 10 or 12 hour’s per week. However, these businesses do state that if you call them they will [...]
Advertising Online This Holiday Season
photo credit: kevindooley Entrepreneur.com: Right now, the Internet accounts for one third of the typical media day for all U.S. adults. Consumers spend nearly four hours online daily according to a report from The Media Audit–that’s 32.5 percent of their media time compared to daily exposure to newspapers, radio, TV and outdoor advertising. The holiday [...]
How To Use Public Domain Content
Using public domain content as the basis for mashups is a growing trend, and one that is yielding a lot of great, original content. Brandon Mendelson over at Mashable.com takes a look at how public domain material is being re-purposed on the web and in print. Pride And Prejudice And Zombies Maybe you’re not feeling [...]
A Look Into The Business Of Interior Design
If you are creative and have a keen eye for design and patterns, you might also feel that the idea of starting an interior design business is a favorable one. While the passion might be there, it takes knowledge and skill to really get a business going. While I can’t help you acquire skill, I [...]
Fortune Small Business has an interesting story about a small sports glove maker that cracked the majors by building relationships with up-and-coming baseball players. Wilson. Rawlings. Easton. Big brands like these dominate the $132 million baseball glove industry, paying star players big bucks to wear their gear. Enter Vinci. For the past 12 years the [...]
If you run a small business and cannot afford CRM tools like Salesforce , MakeUseOf.com has a review of Timetonote. While it doesn’t boast of the advanced tools which paid solutions like Salesforce and Zoho offer, for a 100% free service it isn’t bad at all. You can track leads, communication and conversations with customers [...]
Kid Starts A Guide to Hamptons Stars
The New Yorker: Carter Glatt, a sixteen-year-old junior at the Horace Mann School, is lanky, with black hair and long eyelashes. He loves to play sports, especially football and tennis. He speaks in a slightly stiff, respectful manner that suggests that he’s used to conversing with adults. He carries a BlackBerry with a crack down [...]
SmallBusinessComputing.com says there are times in running a business when it’s useful to get feed back from people who give you an honest answer. You know how it is with friends and family. You’ll say, ‘What do you think of this,’ and they’ll say ‘Oh great, fantastic, wonderful, you’re a genius,’ when what they really [...]
Baking And Business Go Hand In Hand For Mom
Fort Worth Business Press: The crowd was thick as honey around Earlene Moore’s booth during the recent inaugural Downtown Farmers Market in Arlington. The owner-baker has a 12-year record of success with her baked goods business aptly named Breads & Moore. But on this day, the entrepreneur was surprised to find her products quickly sold [...]
