Archive for May, 2007
The identity thief
Terrifying tales of wicked workers and tips on how to avoid them.
When you run a small business, it’s not always easy to find employees who can cover the range of skills you want at the salary available,” explains Missy Rule, the owner of a small Midwestern shipping company. For example, when seeking an administrative assistant, [...]
Beer Belly
Books Lambert, who runs TheBeerbelly.com as president of Under Development Inc., is also someone who might have been viewed by some as having a less-than-perfect business model for his venture. But — after the press picked up on his contraption and he got 1 million hits to his fledgling site, as well as about 80 [...]
5 Turn-Offs About Networking
Top five expressions people use when they are talking about networking that can make you cringe:
Schmoozing — this word makes networking seem so slimy and insincere. Networking is about teaching your contacts to believe in your character and competence so they want to work with you, send business your way or hire you
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Funny Business Going On Online
The business model is simple: Build it, make it funny enough, and the public will come. And once you get enough eyeballs, you can make money through advertising, just like regular TV networks.
Ever since a bootleg clip of a Saturday Night Live sketch comedy skit put YouTube on the map in December 2005, the growing [...]
Farmer’s Cool Invention Turns Profitable
When the air conditioner caught fire three years ago, Kate Khosla thought it was time to pull the plug ”literally” on her husband Ron’s efforts to invent a better compressor-condensor-evaporator.
Khosla’s idea was simple: he thought he could build a gizmo that would allow an ordinary air conditioner to take a room’s temperature down as low [...]
One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones
Millions of people have more than one phone number these days — home, work, cellular, hotel room, vacation home, yacht — and with great complexity comes great hassle. You have to check multiple answering machines. You miss calls when people try to reach you on your cell when you’re at home (or the other way [...]
Hair Care For Men Without
In the late 1980s, Michael Jordan shaved it all off. Soon, the world was examining the scalps of Bruce Willis, Andre Agassi, Moby and just about one token character on every TV show — not to mention a swarm of Oscar nominees and presenters this year, including Jack Nicholson (who had shaved his head for [...]
