Archive for April 21st, 2010
Google Wants To Be All Up In Your Biz
Local Business Center, the service that local businesses use to hand a virtual shingle from within Google Maps, is being renamed Google Places, reports Fast Company. Along with the name change, Google’s added a heap of new features to help firms connect with potential customers. As well as simplifying the way businesses connect with Place [...]
Here’s our iPad story for the day. Paul Stamatiou caught this photo in Atlanta. Could this be the start of an iPad line of fashion wear? Somebody call Flavor Flav! Photo by Paul Stamatiou.
Cloud Computing Can Help Small Biz
Cloud computing is one of those classic disruptions to a business that over time becomes part of the fabric for a how a company operates, writes Alex Williams over at ReadWriteWeb. You can either get into it now and be a leader or wait and join with the rest of the masses. That’s not to [...]
All new moms have the urge to stay home with their child right before they have to go back to work. Then there are some women like Sidney Miller that find a way to do it and still make a living too, reports 12 News. After she got married, and got a fabulous mixer, she [...]
Pour water on a typical greeting card and you’ve got a soggy mess. Do the same to a Postcarden, and you’ve got the beginnings of a miniature garden. According to DailyGrommet.com, Postcarden creator Aimee Furnival had an idea to re-think the greeting card and in a way that is stylish, playful, completely unexpected and yes, [...]
Advice From An ‘Accidental Entrepreneur’
Some things in life simply happen by accident. Call it fate or call it good luck but Brent Bahler simply calls himself an accidental entrepreneur, reports the Marshall Democrat-News. He defined an entrepreneur as someone “who has possession of a new enterprise, a venture, an idea; someone who assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks [...]
Fast Company reports about an invention that might eliminate almost all of the wasted space in a cardboard box. How brilliant is this? Designer Patrick Sung’s Universal Packaging System is meant to precisely fit anything that needs shipping. The individual cardboard sheets are scored with a triangle pattern that can either be fitted to an [...]
Sunshine is a full service grounds care franchise opportunity. No matter where you are, no matter the season, there is always something that needs done. From lawn care to snow removal, this is the perfect business opportunity for any outdoorsy men or women that like to get their hands dirty. The actually story behind the [...]
Make Press Releases Available Online
According to a story at Mashable.com, sending out a press release via a paid distribution service is all well and good, but what you also need is a permanent online press area where all releases are posted — preferably at the same time as the release is distributed. Ideally this press area will be on [...]
