2009

Entrepreneurs Pack Up And Go Home

The Wall Street Journal: In February, after 12 years in a downtown La Jolla, Calif., storefront, Brett and Kimberly Buffington packed up their children’s clothing boutique, Eurochild LLC, and moved it into their home. “Business just stopped on a dime” 18 months ago, Buffington says, and he and his wife were unable to renegotiate their

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Marketplace For Home-Cooked Meals

Springwise: Consumers who lack the time, energy or skills to prepare delicious home-cooked meals themselves already have semi-cooking options to help them along–including shopping and delivery services, as well as meal prep stores, with or without instruction. When even those are too much, BookOfCooks is a new online marketplace that can help consumers find local

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Knowing Your Target Market

photo credit: dustinj Everyone in business knows that you have a certain demographic or market that you target your products and services towards. There are several different markets that a business owner can target towards depending on what they are offering. Entrepreneur.com recently posted an article regarding your many different markets. Obviously with all of

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Summertime Steps To Success

Hartford Business Journal: I’m convinced you can turn the summer of 2009 into one of your most productive ever. And I’ve come up with nine steps to make your summer a business success: 1. Develop your fall marketing plan. Be ready to hit the ground running when your customers are ready to start buying again.

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