Baltimoresun.com: Beth Adams spends the day fulfilling people’s to-do lists, everything from cleaning closets to picking up prescriptions to buying flowers. Then the co-owner of a Baltimore-based personal assistant firm and mother of four returns home – where she runs errands at no charge. “I’ll have to take someone to the game, or I’ll have […]
'Mompreneurs' Building Businesses While Staying Home Read More »
Franchising.net.au: Women’s weight loss and fitness centre franchise Healthy Inspirations installed a customer relationship manager system to support its franchisees and has seen marked improvements in conversion rates as a result. Healthy Inspirations managing director Jamie Hayes said “It’s helped us increase our conversion rate across all centres in excess of 15 percent and secondary
Online System Helps Franchisee Focus At Fitness Franchise Read More »
This is a guest post by Yogev lifchin A lot of people have a strong sense of failure with their network marketing companies because they do not see the results they aspire to. Statistics show, that when it comes to network marketing companies, 97% don’t make enough income to cover for their expander. “Failing” distributers
CNNMoney: The difference between copyright and trademark isn’t always obvious, but the distinction matters here. Both are ways of protecting intellectual property, but copyright generally protects “original works of authorship” like a book, song or poem. A trademark covers the right of such things as brands, titles and logos. In your case, establishing and protecting
Trademarks 101: How To Protect Your Good Name Read More »
WMBF News: When referring to her sales, Jana Jateff calls it “The Lipstick Effect.” A Mary Kay direct sales woman for 26 years, she says during tough times, her business booms. “Women may not be able to afford a new dress or a new suit, but they can afford a new eyeshadow or a new
Lipstick Effect Keeps Business Booming In Tough Times Read More »
Marketwire: Lakeland Industries, Inc., a leading manufacturer of industrial protective clothing for industry, municipalities, healthcare and to first responders on the federal, state and local levels, today announced that it will participate in the Noble Financial Fifth Annual Equity Conference on Monday, June 8, 2009. The conference, also know as the “Austin Power Brokers” event,
The Rocket: In an interactive hour-long presentation, business entrepreneur and author Beth Caldwell shared her “secrets to success” to an audience that filled Eisenberg Classroom Building’s auditorium.” Caldwell is a public relations consultant in Greentree, Pa., where she owns her own public relations firm and focuses in working with small business owners and entrepreneurs. She
Entrepreneur Shares Tricks Of The Trade For Success Read More »
Popular Science: Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre want to line the walls of your home with mushrooms. The young entrepreneurs have created a strong, low-cost biomaterial that could replace the expensive, environmentally harmful Styrofoam and plastics used in wall insulation, as well as in packaging and a host of other products. Wind-turbine blades and auto-body
2009 Invention Awards: Greensulate Read More »
LA Times: They might never get as big as chocolate-chip cookies, which supposedly were invented during the Great Depression, but most of these inventions came about because the people behind them were laid off during this economic downturn. – The iTie. Joe Sale of Tampa, Fla., invented it after he was laid off from his
Some Inventions Born Amid Recession Read More »
Trusted Advisor Associates: A Harvard Business School study of venture capital-backed entrepreneurs tested whether or not we learn from our mistakes. The results are confounding to many–including me. Here’s the story. Several thousand VC-backed companies were studied over 17 years. First-timers had an aggregate success rate of 22% (success meaning going public). The study is
Do We Learn From Our Mistakes? Or Not? Read More »
