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How to Use Etsy or eBay to Bring in More Customers

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Christie Ingram ~ 0 Comments

It is the holiday season and I have been a shopping machine. Well, an online shopping machine! I prefer shopping in my pjs and people stare when I go to the mall like that One of the biggest trends I noticed this year was people using the Big Sites (where all of the customers are) and using it to their…

Take a Shot!

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Bethany Nixon ~ 3 Comments

I often hear (and am guilty of it sometimes myself) small biz owners say “I’m not a big enough business to try that” or “I don’t have a chance of getting into that”, so they don’t bother to submit articles, send samples to magazines or websites, or try to get their product into that big store they dream of. The…

Owning Your Brand Online

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Lindsay Maines ~ 4 Comments

You spend hours, coming up with your perfect business model. Then you spend weeks, drafting your plan. Then you spend months of sweat equity and labor, poring over every aspect of your dream, making sure you’re represented just the way you’d like. Then you wake up one morning to find out someone else has come up with a username two…

The dangers of doing work for free

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Megan Burleson ~ 7 Comments

A man walks into a restaurant. A waiter takes him to his seat and gives him a menu of the dinner choices to look over and leaves him to make his decision. After a few minutes, the waiter comes back and asks the man if he has made his choice. The man shakes his head no, and says to the…

How to Make Working From Home Work For You

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Bethany Nixon ~ 3 Comments

Four years ago I quit my day job to start my dream job – working for myself. My plans in college while studying entrepreneurship were to open a vintage clothing store, but five years later I had changed my mind and with my husband I started a vintage clothing website instead. It was a major change for me; I went…

The 20 Minute Mistake

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Christie Ingram ~ 8 Comments

One teeny, tiny little thing you may do many times a day can be robbing your business of it’s most valuable asset – your focus. In today’s world, focus is a fleeting thing. We zip from one thing to the next, often multitasking like maniacs. We’re watching TV while checking in with friends on Twitter and Facebook. We are checking…