photo credit: Svadilfari When you are first starting your new business, you generally reach out to many different networks and people for all of the tips and advice that you can get, especially if this is the first time ever that you have opened up your own business. Here are some key lessons that every […]
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Fortune Small Business: Some people need a kick in the pants before they change course. For Carlos Salgado, 41, it took a knock on the head. In 1998, the art handler and sculptor was working at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo in New York City. One moment he was disassembling a 400-pound steel sculpture by Italian
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photo credit: lemonjenny Today it is no secret that many people and businesses alike are experiencing higher volumes of debt. Creditors are most likely at their all time high when it comes to collecting on debt in the U.S. today. I recently came across some different strategies you can use to shrink your debt, courtesy
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Reuters: Buying something online can be a frustrating process. The shear numbers of websites offering the same product can lead to endless hours of surfing to try to find the right deal. Prashant Nedungadi has been one of those people and decided to use that frustration to launch IMshopping.com, a website that utilizes a combination
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photo credit: Per Ola Wiberg (Powi)..away Today we keep hearing about several companies laying off people left and right or even just out right firing people on a daily basis, cutting wages, vacation time and sick leave time. When a manager gets a list of people to ax, it must go through their mind at
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Reuters: Picture the founders of any big-name tech company in the U.S. and you’ll probably think of Twitter’s Biz Stone, or Apple’s Steve Jobs, or Bill Gates from Microsoft. In other words: white American men. But a report released this month reveals that 16 percent of high-tech, “high-impact” companies are founded by immigrants. The study,
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Carwash Online: Angel Santiago is no longer a master franchisee of ProntoWash USA, the waterless carwash franchise, after a local court found he owed $10,000 plus fees to a would-be franchiser who wrote him a blank check but never saw the results, according to The Sun. The Aug. 12 story said the man was under
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photo credit: luc legay In today’s economy we as business owners are all trying every possible avenue we can take in order to save a few buck’s here and there, keep our heads a float while waiting for the shore line of economic downturn to surface. One of the thing’s that a business owner can
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CNNMoney: Recent efforts to help small businesses haven’t mirrored those implemented in the aftermath of 9/11, but new measures from the stimulus have been productive. Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan includes incentives for banks to make more loans backed by the Small Business Administration. The program temporarily reduces fees associated with those loans and ups
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Carolina Newswire: Bojangles’ Restaurants Inc. has named Tony Hopson as Vice President of Franchise Operations. Hopson, who joined Bojangles’ in November 2007 as Regional Vice President of Operations, will lead the Bojangles’ franchising team to provide support to the quick service restaurant chain’s 290 franchise-owned locations. Hopson, a native of Florence, Ala., was Vice President
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