Archive for April 25th, 2008

  • New Business Activity Increases In 2007

    According to the Nashville Business Journal in 2007 entrepreneurial activity increased, especially for men and immigrants. The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity showed 495,000 new businesses a month were started in the United States in 2007, involving 0.3 percent of the adult population, or 300 of every 100,000 adults. This is slightly up from a [...]

  • Google Docs Rolls Out Impressive New Tools

    Google Documents has rolled out some pretty impressive new tools.  You can see What’s New here. Most significantly, you can save documents in a POWER POINT Format now! (It was already cool that you could save as a PDF file, but this is even better!) If this were all the upgrades, that would be neat [...]

  • Case Study: How 1800Flowers Helped Start An Industry

    Long before there was the “Website” where customers could visit your business on the web, there was the lowly toll free 800 number. 1800Flowers was part of a marketing movement that made selling products nationwide for a fair price easy … customers just had to respond to the advertisement (on TV, radio, or print) by [...]

  • Social Networks Drive 30% Of Online Video Viewing

    Read this at BizReport. HT to Womma.org If you’re marketing through online video, you really need to be hitting the social networks like Digg, etc. Search engines provide lots of traffic, but the social networks EQUAL them! It’s a way for the small fry to compete. They’re sending 30% of the traffic to videos! Wow! [...]

  • Google 3D Sketch Up Software

    I’m a “Back of the Napkin” kid of guy myself, but if you need to do 3D modeling, Google offers free downloadable SketchUp software There’s two versions, one for professionals and one for educators and schools to use. But I wonder if people could use these for their sales presentations? We  Back of the Napkin [...]

  • How NOT To Do Real Estate As A Land Lord

    In a down market or “buyer’s market” people with liquid assets can snap up houses in a flash. The only question is timing… have you bought too high or did you miss the bottom? But if you DO buy some properties, here’s a quick lesson on how NOT to be a landlord from the San [...]

  • Seminar: How To Read 2007 Tax Returns To Sell More Loans

    Now that the “Subprime Mortgage Crisis” is moving through the economy like an overdose, the fall out is being felt by mortgage brokers who need to make every loan count. Many in the mortgage and banking industries are being laid off and the ones who survive on 100% commission are feeling the hurt. I appreciate [...]