Archive for Business Ideas
Rise of the Home Based Business
Home based businesses aren’t new but what they contribute to the economy is becoming top news. Together, the 6.6 million home based businesses in the U.S. employ one in 10 private sector workers and provide at least half of their owners’ household income. These findings and more are part of a report on home based [...]
The Giving Season is the Holiday Season
Like clockwork, the day after Hallowe’en the holiday season marketing drive shifts from a whisper to a roar. As I watched a Sesame Street Elmo toy ad this afternoon I started to think about the typical entrepreneur’s holiday marketing season efforts.
If you created a marketing strategy this time of year should be highlighted as an [...]
Motivation and the Moonlighting Entrepreneur
I love a clean home but I don’t always like all the tasks involved in making it clean. To motivate myself I set certain goals that serve as incentives for me to finish these chores. For example I might plan to go out to dinner some place special if I finish chores by a [...]
The Stubborn Entrepreneur
How many stories have you read about famous entrepreneurs who faced multiple rejections and set-backs before finally getting that big break or that first client that served to set their business in motion?
Probably many and there’s a reason for that – success in most cases is not immediate. It takes sweat and perseverance 99% [...]
Small Business Owners Make Dreams a Reality
The unemployed and economically frustrated are choosing entrepreneurship in great numbers because bills need to be paid.
But I’d wager a bet that any survey of small business owners would still surface quite a few of us whose dreams extend beyond the timely payment of utility bills.
Check with Your Small Business Owner Network
In one of my [...]
Why are You a Small Business Owner
There use to be a time when entrepreneurs were a “rare” breed of individuals and risk takers with savings. Today, with our shaky economy, entrepreneurs embrace a far larger group of individuals who aren’t only visionaries chasing their dream. A small business owner today could be the father of 4 who got laid off from [...]
Buy Local Sells – Even Online
CNN recently reported that small businesses around the country are looking to their local communities for more than just their patronage–they’re looking for “shareholder” type support for the long-term and it is paying off.
A restaurant owner in Hudson, N.Y. severely hit by the credit crunch during renovations of his establishment was literally saved by his [...]
Online Business Idea Guides
The recent global recession has only helped to fuel the upward trend of entrepreneurship in the U.S. and Canada. What has made starting a business even more affordable is the Internet.
Before the Internet one of the most expensive aspects of starting a business was marketing. The cost of placing advertisements in local, regional or national [...]
