Archive for March 30th, 2010
Dropbox: Free Online Backup, Now Even Better
I recently wrote about my love of Dropbox, and today, I’m excited to report that Dropbox has announced something that makes their free service even better. In a nutshell, Dropbox is a free backup software that allows me to easily and securely backup the most important files on my computer to an external disk somewhere [...]
Before Karen Hewko’s son was 7 months old he could ask for an apple, a bath, and even identify a dog. And not one word had to pass his lips because he was able to use sign language, reports TheSpec.com. Karen Hewko, is the Hamilton-Burlington area franchise owner for My Smart Hands. As a certified [...]
Bestselling Books for Entrepreneurs
Each month, we highlight the bestselling entrepreneurship books on Amazon.com. Rework Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Raving Fans: A Revolutionary [...]
Oogavé Soda Entrepreneur Hopes To Cash In On Investment
Stephen Anson was the owner of a natural foods restaurant in Denver. While he was happy with the menu, he was less than thrilled with the beverage options, reports the Greeley Tribune. His customers wanted soda, but part of the reason for opening a natural foods restaurant was to avoid processed, corporate products stuffed with [...]
Franchise Makes it Easier to Break Up
AOL Business has a great profile on the Fairway Divorce Solutions franchise: All’s fair in love and war, which may be why divorce often seems unfair. One person usually leaves the union feeling especially burned, either because he or she was blindsided and didn’t see the end coming, or because one person got the house [...]
NicheGeek: Chuck Gordon, then an art student at UCLA, balked at the thousands of dollars he would have to pay to store his belongings while spending a semester in Singapore two years ago. He ended up stowing his stuff in friends’ homes and garages. Gordon thought plenty of people with extra space would rent it [...]
How to Stand Out in a Niche Full of Scammers
Is your niche perceived as being full of scammers and jerks? You’re not like that, but how do you develop trust, build authority and be seen as authentic? There’s a great post up on Problogger with a few thoughts on the topic, none of them by themselves will flip a switch and make everyone trust [...]
Leave Your Mark… On Your Drink
When you’re with a group of friends and you all have identical looking beverages, what is to stop you from grabbing the wrong one and drinking out of it? Or worse, what’s to stop your friend from doing the same thing? It’s a problem that finally has a solution, says ABC7 Chicago. Drinkmarx are customizable [...]
New Book Offers Secrets to Teaching Youth How to Be Ethical Leaders
Frustrated with society’s lack of true leaders, long-time Twin Cities, Minnesota, business executive John Amann has co-authored MacAdemia Nuts, a new children’s book that teaches kids how to be ethical leaders – a key survival skill needed to advance in today’s work world and one that isn’t being taught in public schools. “Schools teach our [...]
The Christian faith holds several acts of “super-sizing” to be miracles accomplished by Jesus Christ — a handful of fish and loaves of bread expanded to feed thousands; a wedding feast running low on wine suddenly awash in the stuff. The Los Angeles Times reports a new study of portion expansion puts Jesus once more [...]
The Toiletpaper Entrepreneur has discovered a little used trick that makes the process of getting great testimonials real easy, and it employs a strategy called instant reciprocity. I’ll share the exact method in just a second, but first you have to remember the basics to great feedback… take excellent care of your customer. I mean, [...]
Secret To Work-At-Home Success
According to a story at Work-At-Home Success.com, many people make working at home more difficult than it is. That doesn’t mean working at home is easy or not without effort (as the scammers would have you believe). But some people get so bogged down in the details, they never actually get anywhere. Working at home [...]
Small Banks Can’t Win In Small-Biz Lending
According to a story in USA TODAY, David Harmer didn’t think he’d have a problem getting a $50,000 line of credit for his 33-year-old air-conditioning business. First Class of Cape Coral, Fla., was profitable. Harmer’s net worth was $2 million, and he’d never been late with a loan payment. As Harmer tells it, a bank [...]
