Archive for December 3rd, 2009
Little Blue Cube Is Bringing In Serious Green
According to a story in Entrepreneur, Damian Cox spent most of his adult life working in hospitality and in his financial planning practice. It wasn’t until a local distributor showed him an innovative new product that he started thinking about switching gears. The product, a small cube that helps conserve water in public restrooms, was [...]
Low-Cost Marketing Ideas For Your Biz
You’ve got a great idea and a plan to turn it into a business, writes Entrepreneur StartUps. Now all you need are customers–and to get them, you need to spread the word about what you’re doing. One problem: Your marketing budget makes your grade school allowance look like a princely sum. Find businesses in your [...]
photo credit: pasotraspaso In the past we’ve talked about all kinds of management tools and leadership qualities, but this time, we’re going to cut right to the chase. You won’t find these five tips anywhere else, since you’re the first ones to read them. Moreover, these are indeed CEO best practices that I’ve observed in [...]
Marketing Biggest Hurdle For Game Inventors
To hear him tell it, Evan Koch is sitting on a gold mine, a pet project called Zurround that he’s been developing for the last 2 1/2 years, reports The San Francisco Chronicle. He just needs to find someone willing to back his play, so to speak. No, it’s not a killer app or a [...]
Small Businesses Do Thrive In A Recession
photo credit: ginnerobot New York Times: “The answers are very specific to the company’s circumstances,” said Ken Gaebler, chairman and chief executive of Gaebler Ventures, a business incubator and investment firm in Chicago. “A good entrepreneur knows which buttons need to be pressed to thrive in a tough situation and make it through to the [...]
10 Bizs Based On A Bad Economy
In their list of top 10 business opportunities in a down economy, John Assaraf and Murray Smith, founders of OneCoach, a provider of small-business coaching services, recommend the following: 1. Business coaching 2. Social networking for business 3. Alternative fuels 4. Environmental services 5. Health care 6. Nail salons/beauty products 7. Discount retailers 8. Luxury [...]
Lure Last Minute Shoppers With Your Coupons
photo credit: striatic Many people are struggling this year due to the recession, most of which are planning on spending a lot less this holiday season then they have in the past, and most of them are also putting off their holiday shopping for as long as they can in hopes of save up a [...]
KFC Sells Chicken For Penny A Calorie
KFC, the erstwhile Kentucky Fried Chicken, has introduced a special meal promotion with a novel pricing twist: It costs 1 cent a calorie, reports WalletPop. The 395-calorie Kentucky Grilled Chicken meal comes with a drumstick and thigh, green beans, mashed potatoes, and gravy. For that square meal, customers pay $3.95. KFC might also have just [...]
photo credit: LiveFromAmsterdam Seth Godin’s: Just for a second, think about the influence, buying power, network and track record of the people you listen to the most. Have they earned the right? In business we hear a lot of advice, tips and constructive criticism whether we ask for it or not. It is inevitable, wherever [...]
Who wants to be a millionaire… for under $200? Come on, even your mom could afford that. Business Pundit suggests a trip to the following places… 10. Zambia 9. Paraguay 8. Guinea 7. Laos 6. Indonesia 5. Iran 4. Turkmenistan 3. Sao Tome & Principe 2. Vietnam 1. Somalia Photo by Zambia/Paraguay.
NWA Online: Parents who want to feed their babies a nutritious food, sourced from farms within 300 miles of Washington and Benton counties, can buy Oh Baby! food in local stores. Mother and business owner Fran Free Gunsaulis displayed the baby food, which she cooked in her own kitchen on her Cincinnati farm this summer, [...]
Artist Finds Her Niche In Mixed Media Art And Clothing
At first it might seem that clothing would have nothing in common with a painting business but that’s not entirely true. For Sandra Schulze there is a lot more behind those businesses than meets the eye. Inspired by the photo of her friends’ daughter, Sandra went to work on what would become her first mixed [...]
