Archive for April, 2008

The Virginian-Pilot: via Dane’s blog
Some cute stationery and a creative edge were what Joanne Butcher needed to stay home to take care of her children and operate a full-time business.
“I wanted something with flexible hours that enabled me to be with my family,” Butcher said. “I also wanted a creative outlet.”
Butcher, 42, opened The Paper [...]

From Skellie
Hey, there’s just too much good stuff for me to post his list of bullet points. This is page after page of solid material it’s worth your while to read.
Here are just some high points so please do read the whole article by  Skellie
Without the ability to gather links, subscribers and comments, your blog [...]

It’s been a crazy week at my Angel Food Ministries Lens…1225 visitors in the last 7 Days. You can click the thumbnail to see the screenshot for yourself.
806 have come from Google. The rest from a variety of other sources including 210 direct referrals from other sources.
Is the concern about rising food prices driving it? [...]

For the record, I HATE hotmail. I hate the name. I hate the service. I hate the spam that comes from hotmail users. I think it’s completely unprofessional to try to do business or even conduct serious communications using a hotmail address. Did I mention that I hate hotmail?
But in case you don’t, here’s a [...]

If you find it helpful to learn just HOW successful business people think, you’ll want to read this article on Costco’s business strategy.
Some things I learned…
*Their stores never carry more than 4000 items - but in bulk. A Wal-Mart carries 125,000.
*They never price anything more than 14% above their cost.
*Their profit essentially comes from their [...]

Most entrepreneurs and work at home types just want a fair shake to make a living for themselves.
They don’t want to government to give them anything… they just don’t want to be hassled.
So they hate it when they hear about people who are supposedly “icons” of “capitalism” turn out to be socialist welfare state suck [...]

Blog and website publishers who are able to deliver the traffic through organic search methods or other legitimate means are always on the lookout for ways to maximize the revenue from their efforts. After Google’s Adsense program let advertisers pay “chump change” to webmasters who run their ads on PREMIUM webspace, frankly publishers have [...]

The news is filtering through the nation “Rice Shortage!”
Because of the astronomic price of gasoline that keeps moving upwards, talk of “recession” (or “Depression”), etc. this combination of news has the potential to spread panic.
And the fact that the “stimulus payments” are going out in the mail soon and everyone knows they’re a joke that [...]

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 participation [...]

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 enough but [...]