There is a lot of hype out there surrounding the New Age book/DVD called The Secret, by Wanda Byrne. Everywhere I turn, someone is talking about it; it’s gotten press on Oprah, Larry King, and Saturday Night Live even did a skit about it. Being naturally curious (OK- maybe nosy is more like it), I [...]
You have got to hand it to GEICO. Not only are they the fourth largest auto insurer and growing, but they managed to turn something dull like car insurance into a form of entertainment. GEICO has single-handedly sparked “caveman mania” with their caveman marketing campaign. There’s even a website dedicated to the cavemen’s chic pad [...]
If you want to sell online but you wish to have absolute full control over what you sell and how you sell it, you can always start your own auction site. By starting your own site you can also charge other sellers to use the site and basically become an auction landlord (or slumlord) – [...]
If you’re here, you’re here because you want to make money for yourself – as a business owner, a freelancer, or maybe even as a blogger. (Unless you’re just here because of my immensely popular TurboGrafx-16 post. Gee, thanks LinkSwarm and digg…for all the traffic. From mostly non-entrepreneurial video game fans.)
Networking. For some it’s a dreaded word, a feared part of doing business. But, it’s absolutely vital to success, especially if you are on your own in the business world. For the typical entrepreneur, 2/3 of business comes from direct personal contact (networking and referrals). Then all entrepreneurs must be great networkers, right? Unfortunately, that’s [...]