Archive for December 2nd, 2009
Best Games For Budding Entreprenuers
The art of the deal isn’t something students usually study in elementary school, and neither are the principles of real estate, the rough and tumble rules of the stock market or best practices for starting a business, writes WalletPop. However, there are games for kids that do exactly that. The best part? The learning is [...]
photo credit: lotopspin Copyblogger: You don’t get to opt out. Businesses that think they can ignore all this “Twitter stupidity” tend to get painfully rude awakenings. The conversation will happen with or without you. You definitely don’t need to respond to every chuckle head with a Facebook account (and you shouldn’t), but you need to [...]
What shape is the Postal Service in? It’s hurting, reports The Week. With more and more personal and business communication being conducted via e-mail and social-networking sites, mail volume peaked at 213 billion pieces in 2006 and has been declining ever since. The recession has only made a difficult situation worse. Mail volume declined by [...]
Great Resources To Get Your Start-up Off The Ground
photo credit: pizzodisevo When starting up your own business, you can always use all the help and resources that you can possibly get your hands on! Starting a business can be overwhelming and difficult at times, but it doesn’t have to be insane and next to impossible if you take advantage of the right resources [...]
Asking For Your Customers Help
photo credit: helgasms! Damniwish.com: Try this: Ask your customers to write a review. Tell them it’s important before the holidays. Don’t give an incentive, just ask them to do it. They’ll do it! In business we know that our customers and clients are the number one thing that will make us succeed. They will ultimately [...]
Culinary Schools Cooking Up Sales Growth
According to The Los Angeles Times, the business of culinary schools is on the rebound after being hammered by the recession earlier this year. The article cites several schools in the L.A. area that have experienced high sales growth due to people looking to save money by cooking for themselves, and the unemployed who are [...]
Derek Sivers: In China, some doctors are paid monthly when you are healthy. If you are sick, it’s their fault, so you don’t have to pay that month. It’s their goal to get you healthy and keep you healthy so they can get paid.
photo credit: *Zara If you’re doing good work, have products that people enjoy, and provide a service and experience that exceeds expectation, chances are, your business is benefiting from word of mouth referrals. While this occasional lead generation windfall may be great, there are things you can do to shine a light on referral generation [...]
Cyber Monday Sales A Bright Spot
Shoppers logged on to e-commerce sites in droves yesterday, spending at a pace that probably set a single day record. The Wall Street Journal cites a comScore report that estimates that online retail sales grew by 6 percent compared with last year, to $900 million. But just as shoppers on Black Friday were spending less [...]
Go Green With Your Holiday Party
photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography As the holiday season approaches us, we are all starting to plan those big parties whether they’re at work, at home or both. When you consider all of the preparation that goes into setting up such an event, it can be overwhelming when you think about some of the high [...]
Bonuses, parties, and gifts for clients are the hallmark of the holiday season. But small businesses that can’t afford the usual perks are getting creative instead, reports The Wall Street Journal. According to American Express OPEN’s survey of 500 entrepreneurs, only 31 percent are giving year-end bonuses (down from 44 percent last year), only 16 [...]
11 Mistakes That Will Bring Your Company Down
photo credit: jared In today’s economy we are all trying to strive for more; more profit, more customers, more everything. We constantly look for new and ground breaking ways to achieve our goals in the quickest manner possible. Well, below are some mistakes that every manager should never make unless they want to kill their [...]
Entrepreneur Is Fetching Serious Profits
Sheryl Matthys was born to be in the spotlight. Entreprenuer reports that after graduating from Butler University, she worked for several TV and radio stations before moving to New York City to work on industrial videos as a commercial actress. But it wasn’t until 2001, when she got her first greyhound dog, Shiraz, that Matthys, [...]
Miami Herald.com: Whitney Zimet, a busy Miami mom, has figured out a way to build her small business during all hours. She mingles with other moms, hoping to cajole them into giving her their e-mail addresses. Then, she adds the coveted address to the distribution list for her e-newsletter, I am the Maven, filled with [...]
