Archive for March, 2009

The WSJ recently published an article on home-grown economic-stimulus programs that cities, counties, and states are providing to help small businesses stay afloat and spur local spending during the recession. Usually local plans – aka “economic gardening” – work better than shotgun big government plans. Here are some plans the Wall Street Journal discussed… Are [...]

Even PBS can come up with something interesting once in a while. Is your business plan focused on the past or the future? It’s ok to focus on something hot in the past if it’s still a keeper now. And you can mess yourself up jumping too quickly into the new and untested. Finding the [...]

I’ve got friends who live near Nashville, TN. They talk about the music business and everybody dreams of writing a song or the lyrics of a hit single. You write one good song and before you know it, you can go out to the road and open your mail box and find what they call [...]

Can You Really Get 19530 New Twitter Followers In 30 Days? I really don’t know. But it is an interesting thought. You can see what I’m talking about here. It’s those numbers from MLM presentations… you get 5, they get 5, etc. Except this time at least, it’s free. Will it work? In the least? [...]

Four tips for making more money while staying local is about a web development company and how they’re seeking to maintain and increase their revenues these days. Formerly they acquired all their business online and didn’t really care about local referrals or local connections. Times have changed that. There are some practical tips here about [...]

Google Friend Connect is now offering software “plugins” to integrate the social networking facility of Google with popular Content Management Systems. Here are some examples: Wordpress PhpBB Drupal Here’s how Google describes their service – What is Google Friend Connect? The Google Friend Connect API provides a simple means of one-click user authentication using any [...]

Grand Canyon University sponsors a website called GetMyBusinessDegree.com. Non traditional degrees are booming these days and schools that once shied away from doing online training are jumping in with both feet. It makes you think the “carping” was all just to give the big schools time to “catch up”. GetMyBusinessDegree.com exists to educate people about [...]

I’ve been blogging about how to make money with iphone applications.  You can see the related links below in fact. Well, today I ran across something that would make an EXCELLENT iphone application. Go ahead, steal the idea. I don’t have time to do anything with it today anyway. In fact if you make one [...]

“How To Get Free Government Grants To Train As A Nurse If You’ve Been Laid Off” was a surprise. With all these “Stimulus Scammers” out there trying to hype the latest Congressional catastrophe, this is NOT like that other junk on the market…. those 1 in a million (or worse) “grant opportunities”. These are compiled [...]

When I lived in West Virginia, I was fortunate enough to work for a company that provided business health insurance. They were family operated and family oriented and considered it part of their obligation to their employees. They wanted to treat them as “family.” They were paying through the nose for workers comp, but they [...]