photo credit: ottonassar As a business owner we know that one of our most powerful tools to our company is our website. Through our website our clients can contact us, place orders, ask questions, read about us and how we got to where we are, leave helpful suggestions and requests, leave reviews regarding our service […]
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photo credit: Nikolay Bachiyski If you are like most of the business people out there, you are someone who works constantly, you try to squeeze 35 hours worth of work into a single 24 hour day, you find yourself feeling overwhelmed and always behind on your work. You know that efficiency is one of the
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AllBusiness.com: It’s quite a staggering fact that in the last few years home-based businesses have grown to represent 52% of all small businesses and 10 percent of the total receipts of the economy (approximately $314 billion), according to the Small Business Administration (SBA). At the root of this trending is the fact that of all
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Businessweek: The lone entrepreneur, the business that decides to stay small on purpose, or the aspiring microcelebrity, the strategy of negating competition by owning your space may be right up your alley. Here’s how to do it. – First, become the name that comes up when people think of the space you want to own.
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Dan Fuchs operates a small mall kiosk in Johnson City, Tennessee. His business, Graphic Edge, prints slogans and graphics on t-shirts, coffee mugs, and bumper stickers. Unfortunately for him, more than half of his business came from anti-Obama merchandise, sos the mall has decided to kick him out.. Johnson City Press: Friday afternoon, Fuchs was
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More and more moms are looking for a way to bring some money into the household without having to physically leave it. For that reason, we are becoming the new business owners. As the mom in ‘mom and pop’ continues to expand into the world of business, some wonderful resources are sprouting up to offer
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The Dallas Morning News: Farmers markets are more than great places to find farm-fresh fruits, vegetables and meats. They’re also perfect spots to buy direct from artisan producers, little guys making everything from cheese to chocolates. It’s not too late in the season to discover three bakeries — Tough Cookie Bakery, Wackym’s Kitchen and Kessler
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Fast Casual: Spicy Pickle Franchising Inc., the operator and franchisor of the Spicy Pickle and Bread Garden Urban Café brands, has completed two financing transactions, the company has announced. The first transaction was a private placement whereby the company will issue approximately 16 million shares of its common stock and warrants to purchase an additional
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Wall Street Journal: Usually, franchisers don’t want to gamble on young entrepreneurs—they prefer seasoned managers who have built up lots of savings to plow into the venture. Now a host of companies are rethinking that logic. They’re aggressively recruiting twentysomethings through franchise brokers, marketing themselves in youth-friendly venues like Facebook, and in some cases offering
The Fremont Tribune: You might say that Audrey Renter had a jewelry malfunction that turned out all right. The Fremont woman, a longtime Mary Kay Cosmetics consultant, had come home after visiting a client. She went upstairs to freshen up when she noticed something: She was wearing one large black earring and one large blue
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