Archive for February, 2007
Cleaning New Homes
As a software trainer, Anthony Thomas, 39, was on the road every week.
“I hardly ever saw my kids,†he said. “So I thought, ‘What can I do to get a bit more flexibility and time for my family?’â€
The answer was cleaning.
Thomas started All-Clean Services three years ago. Initially, he focused on residential and commercial [...]
101 Dumbest Moments in Business
CNN Money’s 2006’s biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers.
Wall Mart | In an attempt to put a smiley face on its tarnished image, Wal-Mart hires heavy-hitting public relations firm Edelman, which sets about using tactics derived from political races to reverse public perceptions of the giant retailer.
Dubbing its campaign “Candidate Wal-Mart,” the firm trumpets all [...]
What Do Successful Small Businesses Do That You May Not?
In an article published in the January issue of Investment Advisor magazine several points in an article called Stepping Up – How the best advisors take their firms to the next level jumped off the page.
Compared to the market as a whole, firms that dominated their market:
Are 60% more likely to have annual sales goals
Are [...]
Shopping cart choices
Good business is about good decisions. Good decisions are ones made after serious research and data gathering. One of the decisions that must be made by ecommerce people is choosing the right shopping cart for their business. The problem is there is a lot to choose from.
Mark Baartse, a man who, among other things, researches [...]
Google Introducing Office 2.0 for Small Businesses
The offering is the latest package of its services that Google, Mountain View, Calif., has created for organizations. In August, the company launched a free bundle of online applications, such as email and calendar services, which it says is now used by more than 100,000 small businesses. Google says test users of its new Google [...]
Make way for must stream TV
Two-minute YouTube clips were just the start. As television comes to the Internet, dozens of companies are gunning to become the networks of tomorrow, reports Business 2.0 Magazine.
Wayne’s World, it’s not. The Web TV series Diggnation draws hundreds of thousands of viewers. It has Fortune 500 corporate sponsors, and its two young stars are among [...]
Selling sex on cells
Mobile video is all the rage in the wireless world, so how long before porn hits the two-inch screen? As Canada’s No. 2 cell phone carrier just discovered, it may take awhile.
ast month Telus, Canada’s second-largest wireless operator, quietly tried to do something that no other North American rival has done: sell pornography. But when [...]
