Archive for April 19th, 2010
For those that feel cremation just isn’t enough, there is always resomation. While it’s not quite legal in most places the inventor, Sandy Sullivan, hopes that will change soon, says The Daily Record. His device turns the human body into dust – which can be kept by grieving families – and a coffee-coloured liquid which [...]
Does your small business have something to add to an issue currently being discussed in the news? How about going on a talk radio show to get your message out. According to a story at Understanding Marketing, there are a lot of great radio talk shows on the air that are constantly looking for guests [...]
Bake Sale Saves Home, Inspires Business
When Angela Logan started peeling apples and baking last summer, she not only saved her home but she also started a business, says NorthJersey.com. Eight months after selling enough “Mortgage Apple Cakes” to meet her house payment — and becoming a media celebrity in the process — the 56-year-old Logan is still pursuing acting. But [...]
Google Takes Printing To The Cloud
According to a blog post in The New York Times, Google plans on creating a new way of printing, with all the necessary software needed to print jobs also stored in the cloud. This new Google Cloud Print paradigm is needed, Google says, because with so many different kinds of devices (desktops, laptops, iPads, smartphones) [...]
Many might believe that the times are bad but for a few Memphis entrepreneurs that belief couldn’t be more wrong, says The Commercial Appeal. Despite a recent report by the National Federation of Independent Business that revealed rising pessimism among small-business owners, not everyone considers the economic outlook bleak. In fact, entrepreneur J D Graffam [...]
I Hated Twitter…But Not Anymore
Monika Jansen writes at the Grow Small Business blog about her relationship with Twitter. The reason I hated Twitter was because it was so exclusionary. How do you figure out that tweet jargon, all those @’s and #’s, on your own? How do you find people to follow? How do you un-follow people who are [...]
The 10 Most Profitable Small Bizs
Spiking sales might make for good cocktail conversation, but if you don’t turn a profit–and keep turning one–you won’t be in business very long. With the help of Sageworks, a Raleigh, N.C.-based accounting consultancy and private-company data provider, Forbes assembled a list of the 10 most profitable businesses, on a pretax basis, that aspiring entrepreneurs [...]
What Are People’s Perceptions Of Spam?
Flowtown has put together a graph about SPAM, how we deal with it and why we open it. Photo by Flowtown.
Pamela Slim over at Escape From Cubicle Nation has the answer. My friend’s teenage daughter informed her the other day that she was enrolling in a nail technician class at high school. The friend, who has been prepping her daughter for a good college education since she was a toddler, was less than thrilled. “Why [...]
How To Build A Team That Will Build Itself
photo credit: jurvetson Building a team for your company comes with many different decisions and steps that you will need to take and put into action. Your team will ultimately determine how well or poorly your company does in the future. I have put together some helpful tips on building a successful team that I [...]
How To Bounce Back From A Failure
photo credit: spettacolopuro At one time or another we have or will have an experience of failure, no one is exempt from this part of life. But how we deal with our failure and what we do following our failure is what makes us who we are, it is what defines our character as well [...]
photo credit: William Hook Entrepreneur.com: You would think that marketing trends would be closely aligned with consumer trends, since effective marketing depends on getting your messages to appear where the highest concentration of qualified eyeballs are focused. That isn’t always the case, however, because trend-focused marketers tend to place an inflated value on revolutionary technology [...]
