Small Business
Million Dollar Business Started On Shoestring
Russell Hirst was just 21-years-old when he set up his online flower delivery service from a bedroom at his parents’ home in Manchester, England. Hirst’s ‘one room, one computer’ company is now selling flowers to 120 countries. Hirst says he is self-taught when it comes to the internet and attributes his success with Valueflora to [...]
Ten clues that your Web site is dead
Your small business could be dying, and you don’t even know it. According to an expert in Web site design, small businesses’ Web sites are failing to leverage the Internet. As a result, many of them won’t be around for very long. KitJustin Kitch, CEO of Menlo Park, Calif.-based Homestead Technologies Inc., offered these 10 [...]
10 Web Tips For Entrepreneurs
Believe it or not, nearly half of U.S. small businesses still don’t have a Web site. Here are 10 ways going online can help boost even the tiniest company. And while some entrepreneurs fear that going tech will be expensive, companies like Web.com, a provider of do-it-yourself Web sites and Web services, allow business owners [...]
Taking YouTube to the next level
Some of the smartest new companies on the Net are those that are doing the content collectors one better. Mark Hall, a former executive with RealNetworks, fell in love with online video two years ago, thanks to an ultrafast broadband connection in his London home. When he returned to San Francisco last year, he decided [...]
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?’†The answer was cleaning. Thomas started All-Clean Services three years ago. Initially, he focused on residential [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
