The Wall Street Journal:
Small businesses finally are getting their own little piece of the federal government’s ballooning bailout package.
U.S. officials announced the federal government as part of a broader package will lend up to $200...
Here are 10 home based business ideas, in no particular order:
1. Translator. In a multi-ethnic society such as the United State, translation service is in big demand. American Translators Association can be a good source...
ChicoER.com:
It's like writing a school paper for Meagan Ting, one of the hosts of Teen Talk at Chico's public radio station, KZFR.
She researches a topic, say, mental illness by surfing the Internet, talking to friends...
The Times:
History is peppered with tales of phenomenal ideas taking shape in sleeping minds; Paul McCartney said that he awoke with the tune of Yesterday in his head, and Robert Louis Stevenson said that the...
The Wall Street Journal:
When gasoline prices shot over $4 a gallon this summer, Americans didn't wait for Washington to respond with an energy policy. They took action on their own by driving less and switching...
MarketWatch:
Successful small business owners are constantly balancing the need to invest in new productivity-enhancing technology with the impact on their bottom lines.
But between now and the end of the year, with the help of...
LifeHack:
The iPod is an incredible organizing device! It takes many shelves worth of CDs and condenses them into one tiny gadget, thereby reducing clutter.
Looking at the iPod from an organizer’s point of view, there are...
Inc.:
U.S. entrepreneurial activity fell from 12.4 percent of the total workforce in 2005 to 9.6 percent in 2007, according to a joint study by Babson and Baruch Colleges.
Despite the decline, the nation's rate of entrepreneurship...
The Associated Press:
The nearest Wal-Mart is two hours away, and only foul weather, a deer in the road or a Washakie County sheriff's deputy would slow down anyone with a mind to drive there faster.
Yet...
Rhonda Abrams At Gannett News Service:
I've heard a lot of doom and gloom from small-business owners lately. After all, the economy stinks. Headlines scream at us: Consumer confidence is down, unemployment is up. Housing prices...
ReadWriteWeb:
1. Don't focus on growth; focus on cash preservation
David Cowan, Bessemer Venture Partners, recommends companies move toward cash preservation rather than growth. "Spend less time worrying about what competitors will do in terms of features,...
Neighborhood Star:
When Sam Schoeler's husband died two years ago, her life changed in more ways than she could imagine.
She began planning a new career that reflects her love of fairy tales and folklore, something that...
Hack Your Day:
I see a lot of misconceptions about working from home. Many people think that what happens is we barely make ends meet, but it’s ok because we can get up at 11:00, put...
Lifehack:
When are you at your creative peak? That is, what time of day do ideas flow most easily for you? What activities bring your best ideas to the surface where you can most easily gather...
PR Web:
Baby Swags is a marketing and celebrity gifting firm that specializes in promoting maternity and juvenile related products created by mom-entrepreneurs, and helps them by spreading a buzz about them all around Hollywood. Once...
Seth Godin:
Make money: not by building an internet company, but by using the net as a tool to create value and get paid. Use the internet as a tool, not as an end. Do it...
Springwise:
If crowdsourcing can be used to improve product design, music promotion and sports team management–to name just a few of the examples we've written about–why not the process of finding sales leads?
That question is...
Lifehack.org:
There are all sorts of reasons to take notes, and it’s important to first look to these reasons in deciding which particular method of note-taking is best for us in the modern age.
Different note...
The New York Times:
Some small-business experts are offering advice that may sound counterintuitive in this slowing economy. Now, they argue, may be the perfect time to increase your marketing budget – and even your prices.
Here...
Inc.:
Customer service is more important than low prices when it comes to luring and keeping loyal customers, according to a new survey by Accenture.
More than two thirds of over 4,000 consumers surveyed worldwide said they've...
