Entrepreneur:
5 Easy Part-Time Online Businesses
“1. Information marketing: We’re in the information age, and the internet provides you with the ideal medium to exchange know-how for money. Do you know the best fishing holes? How to play guitar? The secrets to a successful marriage? A recipe for moist and delicious brownies? A trick for saving […]
Hometown Annapolis:
Teen Opens Successful Shaved Ice Business
“Katie Neighoff is a busy entrepreneur and the owner of a new business in Galesville, the “Sno Shak.” At the Shak, she sells 24 regular and diet flavors of sno-balls.
For Katie, the business is a way to earn money for college. It might also turn out to be an […]
Montreal Gazette:
Eco-Friendly, Organic Compost Business
“Last summer, Stephen McLeod started an organic waste pickup service, charging clients $5 a week to pick up and properly dispose of their table scraps and garden wastes. The service, called Compost Montreal, has almost 100 clients in St. Henri, the Plateau and Notre Dame de Grâce.
McLeod, who also runs an […]
KERA:
“TCU student Erick vant’ Westeinde is an expert on antique luxury cars, having fallen for them at age 12, when he started collecting and trading pricey, miniature reproductions of Porsches and Mercedes.
Vant’ Westeinde sold some of his miniatures for double what he paid, then started souping up bicycles. A few years ago, he moved up […]
Entrepreneur:
Start a Doll Making & Repair Business
“It may not seem like it, but doll making and repairs is a giant segment of the craft and toy industry. To reinforce this, simply visit an antique shop that specializes in antique dolls or a retailer of new custom “one of a kind” dolls, and you’ll soon see […]
Entrepreneur:
“At age 18, Shawn Nelson was watching TV on the couch when he decided “a huge beanbag thing” might be more comfortable. He bought 14 yards of vinyl, cut it into a baseball shape, and spent three weeks filling it with anything soft he could find. The finished LoveSac was 7 feet wide, and everyone […]
Entrepreneur:
Best Facebook Apps For Business Entrepreneurs
“There are more than 35 million active members on the hot social networking site Facebook–and that’s a marketing and networking opportunity too large to ignore. A lot of entrepreneurs maintain profiles on Facebook, whether it’s to keep up with colleagues, hunt for business partners and employees, or just get their faces and […]
MSNBC:
“There’s no doubt that buying an existing small business is less risky than starting one from scratch. Why? Because, unlike a startup:
the business has equipment and inventory;
the business already has a location, and maybe there’s a few more years left on the lease;
the business has employees, some of whom you may actually want to keep;
the […]
USA Today:
“Q: Can anyone be an entrepreneur?
A: I believe anyone can do anything they want to do. You can get started right now were you are. Much of being an entrepreneur starts with a state of mind. How we think determines how our lives will unfold. Right now you are in a good position to […]
Seattle Post Intelligence:
“Q: I am an account manager for a large telecommunications company, but I dread going to work every day. On weekends, I wake up full of energy and work on my eBay business. I make good money at my job, but I feel as though I am in a cage and have no […]
WSJ:
The WSJ has a good article on how to market a small business in a economic slowdown. In the article they give 12 ideas:
1. Target optimistic entrepreneurs
2. Position yourself as a sales driver
3. Run “likely to leave” models
4. Offer self service
5. Intercept businesses before they make their next move
6. Leverage social-networking trends
7. Earmark entertainment/hospitality spending […]
Star Tribune:
“Catallia Mexican Foods turns out more than a million tortillas a day using four automated production lines at its Eagan factory. The company, aided by financing from a Cargill Inc. subsidiary, has 48 employees.
Cruz Gooch started out selling her tortillas a case at a time to supermarkets. She also started her business by outsourcing […]
