Ideas

Joseph Kowal: “If you’re going into business on the Internet, you MUST automate everything possible – right from the start. Why? I’ll let a little story about my personal experience answer that question… When I first got into the whole online business thing, I had visions of raking in piles of cash while I played […]

CNN: You’ve opted to stay home to care for the kids. But you wouldn’t mind making some extra income during those hours between sending your charges off to school and picking them up again. You’re certainly not alone. Women own more than 6 million small businesses and 5 million women with children under 18 worked

Fortune: “Chemical Bank’s ad campaign announced the start of the revolution in 1969: ‘On Sept. 2, our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again!’ On that day at the Rockville Centre branch at 10 North Village Avenue on Long Island, customers who possessed plastic cards with magnetic stripes no longer had to wait

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists. We’ve got a big show for you today: In An Alternative View Of Organizations in the Future, Gautam Ghosh speculates that in the future, organizations won’t organize for the long term. Russel Buckley compares Sun CEO Scott McNealy to Louis XIV of France in

Jeremy Wright: “Sometimes it’s easy to forget what’s important. Some people will dismiss this essay by my friend Mattias Johansson as trivial, naive and simplistic and it’s likely those people who need to read it the most.” Read Mattias’s essay: Why I love doing business. A reminder to myself why I do what I do.

Duct Tape Marketing: “One of the greatest opportunities open to the small business owner is duplication. Look, you’re an expert a something right, I mean, people pay you for your knowledge, skill, advice, or ability to listen to and solve their problems.”

Startup Journal: From an initial investment of $120,000, Ms. Robinson and her partners — though she’s now the sole owner — built an agency that today places about 300 nannies a year and charges a flat fee of $3,500 for its services, along with a $395 application fee (both are paid by the families); the

Cafe Hayek: “People talk of ‘jobs’ as if these are ends in themselves — as if jobs are goods, rather than bads. But jobs are bads — or, more precisely, they’re costs. A job is the necessary effort each of us must put forward in order to acquire purchasing power. (Yes, yes, I know that

The Entrepreneurial Mind: “Here is today’s latest marvel of the marketplace: health care kiosks. It is a fast, efficient mini-clinic that specializes in common health problems. These kiosks operate out of Target and other retail stores. People were “sick” of sitting and waiting for hours in doctors’ offices, emergency rooms, or urgent care centers for

I just found a great marketing blog called Marketing Genius from Maple Creative. Its not exactly new, there are posts back to March, but I’m looking forward to exploring the archives and reading new posts. Thanks for the link, Ross.