USA Today: The Chinese New Year began Jan. 26, and this year it’s the year of the ox – an auspicious year for entrepreneurs and those of us who own small businesses. “Gung hay fat choy!” is the Cantonese version of the greeting for the Chinese New Year, but it literally means “May prosperity be […]
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GetEntrepreneurial.com: If you want to boost your business marketing, consider the services of a virtual assistant. Here are a few marketing and research tasks that a virtual assistant can perform for you: – promote your business in social networking sites, a very time-consuming task – produce a podcast which will expand your business’ web presence
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photo credit: pfala Being an entrepreneur is truly a rewarding and wonderful career. However, it also means taking on full responsibility for the finances, equipment, losses, bills and more. So in today’s economy entrepreneurs are looking for ways to save money left and right. Below are a few ideas: Once your business is growing fast
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Digital Journal: To create a successful product, Sir James Dyson had to create 5,127 prototypes first. Add 14 years of debt and multiple lawsuits to evade and you get a best-seller in the U.S. and in Europe. It started in 1978, he got vexed with his vacuum cleaner breaking repeatedly, so he created the first
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YoungEntrepreneur: Mark Levit, founder and managing partner of Partners & Levit, Inc., a New York advertising agency, discusses how you can make tough economic times work for you. “As the economic cycle spins, marketers look forward to the economic highs and dread inevitable recessions. When the economy goes sour, how do brands stay alive? During
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Huddersfield Examiner: A slimming organisation in Huddersfield is adding weight to the claim that franchising can succeed in lean economic times. Slimming World has opened 214 new groups across the country during January – including two new groups in Huddersfield. Across West Yorkshire, the organisation had 4,800 new members in the first four weeks of
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Tulsa World: Yvonne Jacobson’s makeshift office is her kitchen table. She had company last week at her Broken Arrow home, so the back bedroom she typically uses to make the baby-shower gifts for her home business was occupied. And writer-video producer Jeff Kauffman’s office is just down the hall from his kids. Or, occasionally, it’s
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Chain Leader: Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries franchisee, Tony Ratliff, has locked down a lease for his first Boardwalk location in Atlanta, Georgia. The new location can be found in the Shoppes of Druid Hills location on the corner of North Druid Hills and Briarcliff Road and should be open by the summer of 2009.
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dBusinessNews Triangle: Hardee’s in the Triangle has joined WRAL-FM as a primary sponsor of the 15th Annual Radiothon for the Duke Children’s Hospital. More than 70 Hardee’s restaurants in the Triangle, Rocky Mount, Durham and Fayetteville will be donating a portion of the sales from breakfast, lunch and dinner combos to the Duke Children’s Hospital
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StandardNet: Jiffy Lube, the national chain that revolutionized the speedy oil change, celebrated its 30th anniversary Monday at the store that started it all. The service center that had its start in Ogden has since grown to more than 2,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada. Rick Altizer, president of Houston-based Jiffy Lube International Inc.,
