Ideas & Opportunities
Call Center In Your Home
You hear a lot about companies routing their customer-service calls to workers overseas, but a less-noticed trend is the growth in home-based call-center workers. The number of such workers in North America has tripled since 2000, according to an estimate by research firm Yankee Group, with more than 670,000 phone agents in the United States [...]
A mother’s race for a cure
It took a few years before Martine Rothblatt got used to describing her daughter’s chronic lung disease as a lucrative market opportunity. “I choked every time I said it – it sounded so immoral,” says Rothblatt, 52. But when she realized that the fastest track to a cure was to launch a biotech firm and [...]
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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Meet Ms. Fix-It
Barbara Kavovit — better known to the world as Barbara K — has turned what began as a niche home-improvement business into a mini-empire that now includes a line of fashionable, female-friendly tools available through retailers like Target, two best-selling books and, most recently, an online show. Barbara K admits that while her career has [...]
Ten Things NOT to Name Your Business
Some words used in business names just bring certain connotations to mind, and, it can be enough to make me not go inside and shop.
“Today’sâ€
“Modernâ€
“Classy”
“Savvyâ€
“Swanky”
“Ladyâ€
“Tidy”
“Charmingâ€
“N’ Things”
Anything with a “K†where a “C†belongs – If you own “Kountry Klutter Kakesâ€, I will Kut you.
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Sell What You Say
Just over a year ago, we covered Ether, which makes it easy for (budding) entrepreneurs to sell spoken advice and support by providing them with a dedicated 1-888 number for customers to call, and taking care of billing and payments. Now, a massive player has joined the arena. Skype’s latest software release includes a beta [...]
Meetings Make Us Dumber
People have a harder time coming up with alternative solutions to a problem when they are part of a group, new research suggests.
Scientists exposed study participants to one brand of soft drink then asked them to think of alternative brands. Alone, they came up with significantly more products than when they were grouped with two [...]
