Archive for May, 2007
How to Get Out of a 2-Year Cellphone Contract
The companies will waive the early termination fee if you die. Pretending to be dead, however, does not work well as a way to break a contract. Sprint Nextel, Verizon and Cingular, for example, may ask for a death certificate. T-Mobile says it does not. “They want to take people at their word,�? said Graham [...]
Web Site Aims To Help Women Seal Deal
Women decide or in some way influence most of the car and truck purchases in the United States — more than 80 percent, according to some estimates. But talk to women about their auto-buying experience in showrooms, and you’ll find that many aren’t thrilled. Salespeople who ignore the woman when a man and woman are [...]
Inventor Has 350 Ideas On Market
Every inventor has a thousand ideas. But it’s the rare one who has 350 of his ideas actually on the market. Meet Zlatko Zadro, president of Zadro Products in Huntington Beach. After careers selling large computers and refurbishing real estate, Zadro decided in 1983 to try marketing one of his inventions. The result is an [...]
Can Friends Be Strong Business Partners?
Question: I have been considering taking two friends as partners in my planned company. I need their expertise as well as their ideas, contacts and other contributing efforts. Should I take them on as employees? Or is it better to partner? Answer: Here are a few things to ask yourself: First, do you really need [...]
America’s Next Business Tycoons
17-year-old Jake Fisher and Weina Scott, who met via an online message board, started their business in June 2005. Switchpod is a podcasting hosting service that provides both free and premium accounts. You can create a podcast with their technology, upload it to Switchpod and be podcasting to the world in a matter of minutes. [...]
Comcast’s new super fast cable modem
Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today’s standard cable modems. The new cable technology is crucial because the industry is competing with [...]
Top 5 Signs You May Be Charging Too Little
Number 5: Your client mistakes your daily rate for an hourly one. Number 4: You’ve won every job you’ve ever pitched for. Number 3: New clients are always asking what “the catch†is. Number 2: You never run out of work, yet you are subsisting on beans and ramen noodles. Number 1 sign you may [...]
