Archive for January 4th, 2011
IRS Extends Tax Deadline to April 18th, 2011
The Internal Revenue Service today announced that they have changed the tax filing deadline for 2011. Taxpayers will have until April 18th to file their tax returns. Taxpayers will have until Monday, April 18 to file their 2010 tax returns and pay any tax due because Emancipation Day, a holiday observed in the District of [...]
Did You Realize That Your Business Already Has a Website?
Everyone says that businesses needs a website. Every web developer in the city has cold-called you and offered to build you a site. The phone company has attempted to upsell you on adding a website to your display advertisement in the telephone directory. Your nephew has even offered to build one for you. But you’ve [...]
Video: Evaluating Your Performance
My second of two videos for YellowBook is up at the site YellowBook360 Building Success. In this one, I spoke with Eric Model of Seal & Co., a children’s boutique store in Summit, New Jersey about Evaluating Your Performance. You can view the video after the jump, or on the site.
Firm Creates Niche Painting Stripes
They do lines — lots of lines. You’ll find them in parking lots, airports and even at Miami’s Doral Golf Resort. The company We Do Lines USA is one of the few companies nationwide that specializes in striping — creating those white, iridescent lines to mark off parking spaces. According to Bradenton.com, the Connecticut-based firm, [...]
Working in partnership with the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, YesPleaseMore aims to provide an economic development platform that gives participating creatives funding for new innovations, the opportunity to sell their wares, and a nurturing environment for creative entrepreneurial culture and reported by trendspotter Springwise. Its pop-up souvenir shop in a vacant retail space within [...]
College Grad Takes The Tea Route
After graduating with her Master’s degree, Joanna Davies went in search for the right job. When a job didn’t materialize, she did the next best thing reports Dorset Echo. The local girl returned to her home town to set up new business, The Gilded Teapot, after graduating a year ago with a masters degree in [...]
If you get nervous when you think that someone is about to turn you down, whether in sales or in your other relationships, there’s a game you can play to teach yourself to get over it. Called Rejection Therapy, it has only one rule: You must be rejected by another person every single day. Basically [...]
Big Ideas 2011: The Battle For Your Living Room
In September, Steve Jobs introduced his company’s Apple TV, a little box that lives on top of your television and streams movies, as “one more hobby.” Inc.com reports that competition for your home-entertainment is getting serious. Google and start-ups like Boxee, Hulu, and Roku are jostling for space on your television screen with stand-alone gadgets [...]
Mobile Devices Changing The Way Biz Owners Work
If you find yourself spending more time holding on to your favorite smart phone than your significant other’s hand, you’re not alone. According to Business News Daily, a new survey shows that 60% of small business owners are confessing to a similar problem. Staples, the office supply company, conducted a poll exploring the use of [...]
Online Shoppers Look To Buy From Trusted Sources
When Kristen and Chris Conn of Evanston wanted to help other parents find and buy safe, nontoxic merchandise, they turned to the Internet. The result wasMightyNest.com, an online business the husband-wife team launched in October 2009 that marries content and commerce to cost effectively reach busy parents. The Chicago Tribune reports that thanks to consumers’ [...]
Top 5 Microbiz Opportunities For 2011
According to Dawn Rivers Baker over at SmallBizTrends.com, microbusiness opportunities often build from everybody else’s opportunities. If one of the big trends to watch in 2011 is travel and tourism, then the microbusiness opportunity lies in providing the personal touch–for example, via a B&B or by supplying the handcrafted soaps used by the local Big [...]
Earn Money With Your Own NightOut Directory
Ever wonder what is going on in your neighborhood after dark? If you’re wondering, then there are probably others in your community that are wondering the same thing. For anyone looking for an opportunity to provide this service while making a little money, Optimal Media Group is the place to look. Optimal Media is the [...]
