Archive for January 22nd, 2010

The Hawaii Chair

The sexual harassment line is already forming in human resources.

 

New in the Directory This Week New in the Directory This Week

One of the often overlooked sections of this website is our directory. Over 2300 different bizops, franchises, dealerships and online opportunities are listed there. Here are the new companies from this week: Business Opportunities Copy Center Cafe Glide Hair (Australia) Glide Hair (USA) King Bear Auto Services Centers Local MugShots Winfree Business Growth Advisors Franchises [...]

 

Manpacks Offers Delivery Of Clean Undies Manpacks Offers Delivery Of Clean Undies

Men, apparently we’re stupid. Stupid and lazy. If this isn’t news to you then have a look at ManPacks, delivered packs of socks, undies and T-shirts that will find you every 3 months without you having to do tedious things like leave the house, or even *gasp* go shopping. Red Ferret reports it’s a subscription [...]

 

Weird: ‘Human Bed Warming’ Service Launched In UK Weird: ‘Human Bed Warming’ Service Launched In UK

Skynews: Holiday Inn, operator of over 4,000 hotels worldwide, will begin to offer a free five-minute “human bed warming service” at it’s London Kensington hotel throughout next week. If requested, a willing member of hotel staff will jump in your bed, dressed head to foot in an all-in-one sleeper suit, until your nightly chamber warms [...]

 

Home Biz Advice: Soapbxx and Daily Worth Home Biz Advice: Soapbxx and Daily Worth

First and foremost, I chose to run my business from home. When I started my Web consultancy, Soapbxx, it became a constant migraine with all the overhead and office space. I’ve been running Soapbxx from home now for four years. We are brutally honest with our structure and have never lost a client. I find [...]

 

Kick-Start: Write A Not-To-Do-List Kick-Start: Write A Not-To-Do-List

There is a difference between being busy and being productive. What are you wasting time on? What are you doing that doesn’t produce revenue? Here’s a powerful exercise. In 15- to 30-minute increments, keep track of each of your activities during the workday. Do this for a week. Then annualize the total amount of time [...]

 

Best Way To Market My New Niche Biz? Best Way To Market My New Niche Biz?

Pattie Simone over at Entrepreneur magazine has a great answer to this marketing question. Successful campaigns in any platform come about as a result of careful research, brand development, testing various messages, offers and venues within an overall strategically planned action blueprint. Specifically, from a cursory review of your metadata, you could use better tags [...]

 

CBS Benches Jack Benny CBS Benches Jack Benny

TechDirt is reporting that last week the International Jack Benny Fan Club got some very bad news. Rather than allow the club with the Benny family’s enthusiastic blessing to digitally preserve some unreleased public domain Benny show masters that CBS has in its possession, the network is giving a thumbs down to the idea — [...]

 

Out Of The Boutique & Into The Livingroom Out Of The Boutique & Into The Livingroom

The Orange County Register: Nicole Fields is shutting the doors of her San Clemente shop heralded by boutique lovers for its affordable glamour, but she’s not giving up on her fashion talents just yet. Fields 4 Dreams, a women’s clothing boutique at 308 N. Avenida de la Estrella, has been open about a year and [...]