Business Plan Basics

failed business model t-shirt I have a business and offer writing services so, on occasion, I have been asked to write business plans ... the list based on Small Business for Dummies (by Eric Tyson and Jim Schell), which is available ... needed to support their soon-to-be highly profitable, cash-producing enterprises so they go to where [more...]

Date: 2007-06-14 21:48:59
Blog: Wise Bread | Personal F...

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SIGHTSPEED BUSINESS Now Live!

Are you mobile?  Do you need to have the ability for quality video conferencing while in the office or on the road? ... ?  It is just incredible!  So with your PC, laptop or UMPC you can take advantage of SightSpeed Business ... SightSpeed Inc. unveiled a breakthrough business video conferencing service that enables all businesses – [more...]

Date: 2007-10-29 21:59:31
Blog: Mobility Site - Windows...

Mini Business Card File Cabinet

mini-businesscard-filecabinet.jpg I guess we’ll never be able to escape the scourge of business cards as they’re here to stay for a little while longer. ThinkGeek has the solution to organize these cards with the Mini Business Card File ... hundred business cards. Two drawers pull out, letting you shuffle through your entire collection [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 18:00:34
Blog: Coolest Gadgets - repor...

Business Financing made easy

Business Financing made easy November 13th, 2007 Many people have dreams and goals whether it’s to go to college and pursue a specific career path, be a great mother, or even to own their own business someday. Some may think that owning a business is completely out of reach because of all the startup costs associated with it but overall it’ [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 23:52:13
Blog: Little-Nerdling.net ...

Legal Mumbo Jumbo & Business Tips

19218894.jpg If you own your own business or have considered starting one some day, ... from blog editor, John Dornoff. John covers all kinds of business related news and passes along great advice for the beginner business owner or the want to be business owner. Even those [more...]

Date: 2007-10-29 15:42:13
Blog: Creative Weblogging - M...

Business Branding: A Customer Service Perspective

While I was in Bank of America the other day, I browsed through the company's publication, Business 24/7 ... entrepreneur who blogs at SmallBusinessBranding.com. Stark says this about branding: "Small business ... and maintained, the way a person does business and treats other people." So, the next time your team [more...]

Date: 2007-09-19 04:18:09
Blog: CustomersAreAlways - Ex...

PC Tyranny: Sticking it to the Little Guy, Again

Your business is directly impacted by whether the bookkeeper you choose to hire is (for example) ... businesses. Most of the value in a small business is in the direct profits it produces for the business ... homosexual, Baptist, vegan, Korean, female, Catholic, or divorced. Employment law may require [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 15:52:03
Blog: Zippy Catholic...

Nokia introduces Nokia E51

Stylish smartphone performer comes equipped with essentials for business and private life image Nokia today bolstered its Nokia Eseries portfolio of business devices with the introduction ... is ideal for business professionals who require reliable, real-time access to business and people, need [more...]

Date: 2007-09-18 13:01:00
Blog: Mobility Site - Windows...

At the Top of Google

Filed under: Business, Internet, Features, Google, Search Search Engine Optimization I haven't met two small business owners in a meeting where one doesn't ask how ... to be first: you get more clicks, your business seems important, clicks convert into business [more...]

Date: 2007-10-25 09:00:00
Blog: Download Squad...

How to Write a Business Plan: Ten Questions with Tim Berry

I work in the surreal world of Silicon Valley where venture capitalists fund companies based on PowerPoint pitches and executive ... , Startups, Stories. He was recently named the US Association of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE) Corporate Entrepreneur of the Year for 2007. Question: Who even reads business plans anymore [more...]

Date: 2007-07-23 16:06:52
Blog: How to Change the World...

15 Successful Entrepreneurs Who Didnt Need College

How many times were you told to make sure you worked hard in high school so you could go to college and get a good career job? ... of Mary Kay Inc. started a cosmetics business. While she didn???t have a college education or any ... business tactics. He dropped out at the age of 16 and started his first successful business venture [more...]

Date: 2007-11-14 00:41:04
Blog: · Leadership Training ...

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

Q&A with:Pankaj GhemawatPublished:October 15, 2007Author:Martha Lagace Thomas Friedman, author of "The World Is Flat: ... . An expert on global strategy, Ghemawat lays out an action plan for business in his new book ... it, important realities dotting the landscape for business can be grouped into 4 basic areas: cultural [more...]

Date: 2007-10-17 01:45:42
Blog: HBS Working Knowledge...

Income vs. Cash Flow: Why Growth Can Kill Your Business

It's always funny to listen to new entrepreneurs talk about how few sales they need to make a ton of money ... of you new to owning a business and sans accounting knowledge, use this as a starting point ... to the profit or the loss that remains with a business or an entrepreneur after all the cost and expenses [more...]

Date: 2007-06-02 19:40:36
Blog: Businesspundit - Main p...

Entrepreneurs: Weekend Reading for Fun and Profit

I bookmark endless resources “to be read” at some point in the future. The sad thing is, that future rarely comes ... to help your business. My recommendation for entrepreneurs of any stripe (small business, startups ... it will percolate through all aspects of your business in the very near future. He doesn’t mention [more...]

Date: 2007-10-27 12:57:14
Blog: Instigator Blog...

Confidential document confirms Shell link to Sudanese Military

13 November 2007 On 14 January 2006, The Board of Trustees of Amherst College located in Amherst, Massachusetts, ... direct business ties to the Sudanese government or companies whose business activities are in direct ... for investment purposes because of its business operations in Sudan. The “MOST CONFIDENTIAL” minutes [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 15:46:00
Blog: Blogger News Network ...

HP rejuvenates the iPAQ line

HP announced no fewer than 56 products yesterday at a press event in NYC, most of them refreshing the flagging iPAQ line ... Series Business Messenger – 3G phone with QWERTY keyboard iPAQ 600 Series Business Navigator – A two ... for business and personal travel featuring graphics acceleration and available 3D maps iPAQ 200 Series [more...]

Date: 2007-09-06 10:23:36
Blog: jkOnTheRun...

Free SightSpeed Pro For All Those Impacted by the Fires in Southern California

aa My good friend Andy Abramson had story today on VoIP Watch relative to the crisis we are seeing on the West Coast with the massive fires ... and friend Peter Csathy, CEO of SightSpeed agreed to make SightSpeed Pro free to business users ... , and making business stay “business as usual”. Of course I went to Peter’s site [more...]

Date: 2007-10-23 19:53:17
Blog: Mobility Site - Windows...

The Introvert's Guide To Selling

Meg_introvert.jpg In my personal opinion, the number one skill you need in business is the ability to sell ... compared to strategy, leadership, finance, and other business skills and ideas. Nonetheless ... . I am not aware of any business school that teaches sales as a separate course, or series [more...]

Date: 2007-10-22 16:36:10
Blog: Businesspundit - Main p...

business voip options

A family member recently left her job to work with a new branch office of a firm she’s quite familiar with, ... of having your callers go straight to voicemail. This business VoIP service is hardware free ... , picking out office furniture, and taking care of all of the things needed to open up a new business [more...]

Date: 2007-10-23 14:29:04
Blog: GeekySpeaky.com - gami...

iBasis Pingo Business gives SMBs freedom of choice

iBasis today introduced Pingo Business, an on-demand VoIP service targeting SMBs to offer low cost calling for up to 999 employees ... -in corporate phone contract. Thankfully, those days are gone. VoIP certainly has given us much ... Business and don't like it or found something cheaper, then don't replenish the funds. The ability [more...]

Date: 2007-10-10 18:17:13
Blog: VoIP & Gadgets Blog...

Hip-Hop as Art of Communication

Take an African-American entrepreneur promoting a Polish vodka owned by a French corporation using Chinese performers practicing an ... got 32-year old Detroit native Dana Burton's business. Welcome to hip-hop’s new world ... our physical communities? The Business Hip-hop is also a booming business, with estimated $10 [more...]

Date: 2007-11-06 04:06:21
Blog: Conversation Agent...

MerchantCircle Receives $10 Million in Funding

merchant circle Social network for business owners in North America, MerchantCircle, ... includes a premium service, which costs between $29 and $99 per month. For this price, small business ... to use some aggressive marketing tactics, which include cold calling small business owners and pre [more...]

Date: 2007-11-07 12:01:07
Blog: Mashable! - The Social ...

Fortune iMeme: VCs Talk About The New Tech Economy; Facebook ‘07 Rev To Top $100 Million

It’s a bright shiny morning in San Francisco, where I’m back for the Fortune iMeme conference at the Ritz-Carlton ... area interesting to us in the China market. Some of the most innovative business models; many of the business models will become prevalent interesting business models in the U.S. over time [more...]

Date: 2007-07-13 15:41:36
Blog: Tech Trader Daily - Bar...

Bootstrapme Rocks 100

Woot! Woot! Way to go Shawn, our blog editor over at Boostrapme.com! He made the list of the top 100 from John Cricket's Top 100 Business Blogs at Business Opportunities and Ideas: While there are many great business blogs about, they are not always easy to find [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 13:09:24
Blog: Creative Weblogging - M...

Business Loan

There comes a stage in the evolution of every business when the business owner has to evaluate whether it is worth trying to raise extra business finance, for example to invest in new equipment [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 22:15:20
Blog: Adsense Higher Earnings...

Find Out Why Customers Cancel

As you start your business from home you are going to have growing pains ... business owner for what you are doing. This can be rough and at times hurt because people will turn ... . That can make all of the difference in your business. [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 19:29:55
Blog: Work At Home | From Bus...

Beyond Storefronts: Harnessing the Business Potential of Virtual Worlds

Filed under: EventsDepo Consulting just keeps the hits coming! ... from their business park. The aim of the show will be to help small- to medium-sized content creators connect with each other and possibly outside business developers who are interested in exploring [more...]

Date: 2007-10-17 08:03:00
Blog: Second Life Insider...

The Power Of One

In 1989 Bryce Courtenay published The Power Of One, a novel I read and was young enough to be able to dismiss as relatively inconsequential, ... money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org ... to be there. Microtransactions. Affiliate marketing works in much the same way and Amazon has certainly understood [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 15:16:15
Blog: Search Engine People Bl...

us national telecom will gobble competition

I hadn’t heard of US NationalTelecom (YIWA) until today, but I’ll bet we’ll be hearing about this new player in the VoIP market a lot more ... with its own VoIP business strategy. About US National Telecom - Yi Wan Group Headquartered ... be your competition? They’ve already purchased Vitelity, and will absorb the founders into their business. DENVER [more...]

Date: 2007-10-25 15:24:35
Blog: GeekySpeaky.com - gami...

Your Comments are Valuable

Ever notice how your comments on the Chapel Hill News blog Orange Chat end up in the paper? First time I noticed my comments there I though, “Wow ... . This is one way sites like Digg or ChapelHillNews.com are making money in the Internet age. I am not against this practice. Its a popular form of business. But are these businesses compensating you [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 18:48:42
Blog: Yesh.com :: Brian Russe...

Theory or Practice?

Theory or Practice? My friend Robert Smith and I used to work together at a large, privately held company here in Minneapolis ... by design. The Issue Which is more important to the success of your business? Theory or practice ... application was nice, but not useful to a business practitioner. His view is that without the many studies [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 21:05:37
Blog: The Happy Burro...

Going Freelance: The Top 10 Tips

So you made your move: you’re finally out on your own, earning a living on your terms ... have to do your work and, in most cases, handle the other aspects of your budding business that – up until now – ... , contractor, consultant, etc. As a small business owner there will be various tasks for which you’ll [more...]

Date: 2007-07-27 07:57:00
Blog: Wise Bread | Personal F...

Hire Consultants Wisely

The other day I received my Cincom newsletter in which an article by Jimmy Ray Purser, Network Solutions Expert of Cisco was published ... . consultants%20cartoon.jpg As a business owner, how many times have you hired a consultant or contractor based on price? As a business owner myself, I know I've been guilty of doing this. In the end [more...]

Date: 2007-10-28 22:09:17
Blog: CustomersAreAlways - Ex...

Bloggers Discuss Africa’s Informal Economies

Africa’s informal economies have for long generated intense research and debates, primarily within academic and professional circles, i.e ... note, I guess it doesn’t hurt to mention that the business section of Africa’s blogosphere shares ... . They also have no access to financing, or the basic business training and skills that could help [more...]

Date: 2007-09-05 15:29:29
Blog: Global Voices Online ...

First Look: August 28, 2007

Are managers in China particularly quick to diversify their enterprises compared to managers in other emerging markets? ... a systematic comparison of the level of business diversification in China and eight other large economies ... companies elsewhere. Design/methodology/approach—We collect data on the number of business segments [more...]

Date: 2007-08-30 02:00:00
Blog: HBS Working Knowledge...

Should formal education and entrepreneurship mix?

Peter_head_shot_1 There is a lot of debate in entrepreneurial circles about whether the best way to learn about starting a business is by just ... Burns, has a very interesting perspective on this topic, as he has both been a serial entrepreneur, starting his first successful business at 19 (and over a hundred others in the proceeding 30 years [more...]

Date: 2007-07-06 19:10:16
Blog: Escape from Cubicle Nat...

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

Published:May 30, 2007Author:Sean Silverthorne The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its ... standard, it's an underperforming industry," says Richard Hamermesh, faculty chair of Harvard Business ... and teaching talents on bringing business-focused solutions and perspectives to address these [more...]

Date: 2007-05-30 16:43:15
Blog: HBS Working Knowledge...

Social Entrepreneurship: Ten Questions with David Bornstein

howtochangebook.jpg David Bornstein is the author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas ... by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best business books of 1996. Bornstein’s articles ... and think about problems—social and business founders are very much the same creatures. Increasingly we see [more...]

Date: 2007-09-17 13:00:01
Blog: How to Change the World...

Fire Customers As Necessary

J0400346 Do you really want and need every potential and existing customer? Is every customer right for your business? Perhaps not ... notified me over the weekend that Idea Sellers made the cut for participation in their popular Blogrush ... and take with no respect for my time or my employee's time" says business owner Debra Brede in a weekend [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 23:17:21
Blog: Idea Sellers...

Free GPS Handset from AdNav?

Brooklyn based GPS marketing solutions company AdNav is preparing a navigation handset with hopes of eventually providing a free ... Ask.com, which will provide Internet access and local business listings for the bewildered tourist ... business savior, commonly referred to as advertising. The company eventually hopes to offer free GPS [more...]

Date: 2007-10-25 19:23:50
Blog: Mashable! - The Social ...

Yahoo India's Managing Director To Depart

Yahoo India will soon be deprived of its managing director - reports indicate that George Zacharias has put in his “four-to-six week notice ... that we have set ourselves to realize the enormous opportunities in this market, and grow the business both ... to exchange4media, Nilsson then continued along a back-to-business, we’ll-be-fine path, saying, “ [more...]

Date: 2007-08-06 15:58:36
Blog: Top News Archive | WebP...

links for 2007-10-29

Blogger Wins Lawsuit Over Gripe Post–BidZirk v. Smith A flagship example of how a pernicious and misguided plaintiff with a thin skin can ruin a ... This blog is dedicated entirely to entrepreneurial, startup, and small business topics ... and advice on building a business, and more! (tags: startup blog entrepreneur smallbusiness) How Could [more...]

Date: 2007-10-29 15:22:05
Blog: The Marketing Technolog...

No More Blocked Attachments

Filed under: Business, OS Updates, Utilities, Productivity, Freeware, Open SourceHave you tried to move big files by attaching them to email? ... and use free services to send big files or pay a small amount for a business account. In the olden ... Are your attachments disappearing? With the advent of reputable and long-needed antispam services [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 10:00:00
Blog: Download Squad...

10 Ways How to Earn Revenue Without Selling Links

Publishers who make their living from selling links on their sites had a warning shot delivered to them last month with the Google PageRank update ... earning revenue online. Don’t fret just yet however, the paid link business is still rather ... , your site should be fine. On the other hand, you do not want to have your business at the mercy [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 17:24:43
Blog: Search Engine Journal...

10 Steps To Becoming A Millionaire

Remember the world’s first virtual millionaire? This female avatar or online character is Anshe Chung who was created by Ailin Graef in an online video game world called Second Life. She’s built a business empire within the alternative universe ... be converted into real life dollars. Amazingly, behind that character is an actual business called Anshe [more...]

Date: 2007-05-31 14:03:33
Blog: Money and Personal Fina...

Monkey Business

Monkey Business Posted by: Emily in Etc. As a contributing author for the book The Age of Conversation, ... service, marketing, and public relations by reading this book and engaging with the other authors ... from marketing folks… stuff that can really have effective applications for our libraries. And don’ [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 16:09:27
Blog: Library Revolution ...

John Geraci Talks to PSFK

Outside.in is a company focused on aggregating information that is relevant to place ... given moment. PSFK recently spoke to John Geraci, co-founder of Outside.in, on the company’s business ... what we’re trying to do, at the business level. What sorts of advertising interest have you received [more...]

Date: 2007-10-25 17:51:25
Blog: PSFK - Trends, Ideas an...

5 Elements of a Sales Relationship

I’ve seen it over and over - small business owners who get nervous and uncomfortable when it’s time to assume the role of salesperson. Sales are the backbone of your company’s health, and most entrepreneurs are not trained sales professionals. In fact, most business owners are reluctant, resistant sales people, worried about being [more...]

Date: 2007-11-05 15:49:40
Blog: Wordpress Themes. Blog ...

Supplies! Brembo Buys Hayez Lemmerz' Brake Division [Industry News]

Brembo North America, maker of the car parts that stop bad rich drivers from killing themselves in their Porches, ... . "We have built a strong business with a solid reputation for quality products, delivery and performance ... this business with an international, technically dynamic brake company like Brembo will better position [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 16:45:00
Blog: Jalopnik: Obsessed With...

AIDS IN THE NEWS, OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS, ARE YOU LISTENING?

Aids are of interest to me because of my health care business background. Today we learned of 4 organ recipients have been confirmed as HIV positive ... , doctors social workers, laboratory workers, sales people, managers, business owners ... of this post is to bring attention to a medical situation that can be a source of opportunity for black [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 17:58:01
Blog: Black In Business...

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