Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
There are thousands of small business owners that never went to business school, and many are quite successful. Although some don't want to know anything about business, many rely on the internet for articles, blogs, and other free resources to learn what they need to know in order to ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
The folks over at WebWorkerDaily never miss a beat. They find all the quirky web applications and generally announce them before they are released to the public. Occasionally, they come back to something one of the big companies like Microsoft, Apple, or Google produce. This week, they published an article ...
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
A lot of people got into freelancing and sole proprietorships last year. Since the job market tanked, many people took their skills into the open market. That's what America is all about right? Anyone can make money!
But now its tax time. Many of these same freelancers ...
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Spring is a time when most people think about cleaning. Clean the house, the windows, the office, the basement, etc. One thing that needs cleaning just as badly as all those is your email inbox.
Over the past few days, I have been sorting through my Gmail ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
Sixty years of electronics retail, all gone. Thousands of employees without jobs, empty retail boxes and tons of parking lots. That's what we are left with after what used to be the best place to learn about and purchase electronics closed its doors for good. As with ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
"You're either growing or your dying, there ain't no third direction," is often said about business. It has been my experience, though, that there is a third direction- staying the same. Many small businesses make roughly the same amount in revenue that they did the year before. It may be ...
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
Yesterday Wil Shroter on the GO BIG network wrote a post about how a startup should never close. The gist of the article is that entrepreneurs need to get the 8-5 mentality out of their heads. When you are starting a business, you are always on the clock, ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
I love watching NBC's The Office. It always seems to shine a light on the quirkiest parts of daily office life. A recent episode alternated between two topics: One was gathering information from a competitor in a new market, and the other was the office debate as ...
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
If you hadn't noticed lately, the web is partying like its 1999. We are back into the thick of web start-ups and entrepreneurs once again rushing to grab cleverly misspelled domain names in the hopes of being the next big thing on the Internet.
The latest craze is software as ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
According to the Maine Department of Labor, 2,400 Mainers have lost their jobs in the last year, putting Vactionland's unemployment rate at 5.6% (these numbers are seasonally adjusted). The number is not horrible, and Cumberland county's rate is only 4%. As things slow down, though, maybe you are ...
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