photo credit: carvalho When people think about children, they tend to think that their minds work in a way that is much simpler than that of adults. However, they are just miniature adults. Their minds work in much the same manner as that of a 30 or 40 year old. Take, for example, when your […]
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photo credit: dyobmit In business there comes a time when we all must do some sort of public speaking. For some this is no big deal but for others it’s scary, horrifying and down right the worst thing imaginable. Some don’t even really know how to give a public speech correctly. Oprah recently gave a
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photo credit: Mzelle Biscotte MakingTheMogul.com: “It is always a vital aspect of business to be respectful and appropriate even when sending out mass emails to your contacts.” When in business there are several times throughout our work week that we have to send out mass business email’s for various reasons, but some of us don’t
photo credit: j.reed Show don’t tell. While Ralph presented me with a three-page single-spaced handout about the Bee Skep after I purchased it, he knew the visual of watching an 89-year old man hand make a basket with a Diet Coke bottle would draw a crowd. From that experience of watching, he then just answered
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Rhonda Abrams at Gannett says to think like an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship can be applied to virtually any field or profession. No matter what products and services are currently on the market in your area of expertise, there are always opportunities to improve them and to better serve the customers who buy them. That said, if
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The New York Times reports there are many federal contracting opportunities for small businesses, but to take advantage of them you have to know the ins and outs of the government’s contracting rules and regulations. Of the more than 20 million small businesses in the United States, only about 500,000 are currently in a position
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Print-on-demand technologies have made it possible for anyone to create and sell goods over the Internet with little or no up-front costs. Josh Catone over at Mashable.com has put together a list of places to make money creating your own products. CafePress is one of the oldest print-on-demand services online and they offer one of
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The Dallas Morning News is reporting that cost-cutting has replaced sales as the path to profit at many recession-battered companies these days. It also has fueled business for some Dallas-area entrepreneurs, who are finding clients eager to try their inventions to save money and time and increase productivity. Dallas entrepreneur Kevin Winters developed patented technology
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Entrepreneur Corner: Steve Blank over at Entrepreneur’s Corner posts the four rules for running with the big dogs. Four great startups were trying to resegment an “Existing Market” – one where competitors have a profitable business selling to customers who can name the market and can tell you about the features that matter to them.
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CNNMoney: Once you find a good idea, don’t move halfheartedly. Scott Anthony is the managing director of Innosight Ventures, an investment firm in Watertown, Mass. He often assigns one employee to examine all of the company’s new ideas. CNNMoney reports a case in point: When one of Anthony’s partners at Innosight wanted to create a
