Archive for June 23rd, 2010
Here are a few links that didn’t warrant their own posts, but I wanted to share with you today: Five Lessons Your Kids Will Learn By Starting A Business Prosthetic Flipper Turns Amputees Into Mermen How To Determine If Your Online Business Idea Even Has a Chance Wine Is a Better Recession Investment Than Stocks [...]
Attracting Customers with YouTube
Google sells a lot of advertisements on their site YouTube. Many businesses use the site to promote their products and services. Sometimes, though, the best way for a small business, like yours, to use the site to attract new clients and customers is to just create great videos. The Google Blog recently invited Terrence Kelleman, [...]
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Square is a new start-up that was co-founded by Jack Dorsey (the guy who created Twitter and was their original CEO). According to Fast Company, Square is a “is both a foolproof and attractive experience” that will appeal to small businesses.
Convince Them In 90 Seconds Or Less
Nicholas Boothman talks to Maggie Rodriquez on the Early Show on CBS about his latest book “Convince Them in 90 Seconds.”
Inventors Digest is reporting that at the Association of University Technology Managers annual meeting, two medical innovators unveiled a draft of the “Academic Inventors’ Bill of Rights.” Although billed as a “collaborative work in progress,” the initiative highlights ongoing tension between academic and student inventors on one side, and university administrators on the other. At [...]
Inflatable Buildings Could Earn Millions
In New York, the most glaring signs of the Great Recession are the stalled construction sites littering the city–boarded up, dusty, and desolate eyesores. The architecture mega-firm Woods Bagot may have a solution, which they’ve just unveiled: Temporary, inflatable buildings that let the developers make money while they wait for their finances to shape up. [...]
Annie Hilliard didn’t leave her dream for a business on the backburner but the name she gave it was placed there. Three months ago Annie launched The Backburner, a kitchenware consignment shop reports HometownAnnapolis.com.
Launch A New Product On Twitter
Until last year, NAP, Inc.’s best known product line was its Sleepy Wrap baby carrier. But when the company launched the Boba Baby Carrier last year, it focused its efforts on social media, especially Twitter, according to a story at Inc.com. Prior to that, we were just using traditional online and print advertising,” says Ashley [...]
Mom’s Multi-Pronged Home Business
Missoulian: Home is where Nici Holt Cline nourishes her heart and her business, both of which seamlessly commingle in her busy life as a mother, entrepreneur, writer, designer of kids’ clothing and gardener. Other labels would also define this fourth-generation Montanan, among them, wife and risk taker. Flexible and imaginative, Cline, 32, quilts together an [...]
Google Voice Now Open To Everyone
BetaNews reports that Google Voice, the popular and often controversial VoIP, voicemail, and messaging service from Mountain View search giant Google is now open for anyone in the U.S. to use.
The Cash Poor World Of High Tech Entrepreneurs
As one of the co-founders for Paypal and the mind that helped create the Tesla, no one really expected to hear that Elon Musk was out of cash reports The New York Times. Mr. Musk is a member of the PayPal Mafia — those serial entrepreneurs who, for a time, looked like the Brat Pack [...]
Phone Scam Targets Your Bank Account
The FBI is warning consumers to be on the alert for scammers who tie up their phone lines while emptying their bank accounts, WalletPop reports. High-tech criminals are now using automated dialing programs and multiple accounts to overwhelm the phone lines of unsuspecting consumers and small- and medium-sized businesses. The denial-of-service calls, which can include [...]
