I know a lot of people who are lured into creating an information website, whether a blog or a website itself. They’ve heard stories of people making good money just by serving ads or offering other people’s products. True, there’s a lot of money that can be made by simply putting up content on the […]
Archives for May 2007
Making Sure You Get Paid
One of the common problems of many small and home-based businesses is ensuring that they get paid for the products provided or services rendered. I’ve seen this first hand with the lawnmowing/tree services company that we hired for our home. No, the problem is not with us :o) but in the way they try to […]
How to De-Risk Your Business when a Competitor Arrives
In my post yesterday on how you can survive the arrival of a tough competitor, the book “The Upside: The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs” by Adrian Slywotzky offers some questions you need to ask to help you fend off this competitor: 1. Do you have an early warning system to […]
How Small Businesses can Survive in a World of Giant Retailers
One of the greatest fears of many small business owners is the arrival of Wal-Mart in their areas. In fact, in many areas, communities are even protesting the arrival of this giant chain to demonstrate support to the communities’ mom and pop stores whose existence may be threatened or jeopardized. We have previously written about […]
Marketing to Tweens
I have a four-year old son, and even at this early age, he already understands the joys of shopping. When we go to the mall or a store, he insists that he buy something (he doesn’t always win, but he definitely tries). He feels that he is entitled to buy anything he wants and I […]
Making a Leap of Faith and Starting a Business
I’ve met a lot of folks who have long thought of starting a business, yet never had the opportunity nor the time to actually start it. Some just talks and talks about wanting to start a business yet never could find the time to squeeze it in their current lives. Others seem content to put […]
A Peak into the Marketing of a New Product
I am a chocolate addict, and I need to eat chocolates every day. I eat not one or two, but three or more bars (not just small pieces) every day. The only times I lay off chocolates are the couple of weeks before my glucose tests during my pregnancies. So of course, when one of […]
The Perils of Cheating
A Yahoo Answers user has been emailing me for weeks asking about the contextual advertising program Google Adsense. We run Adsense here at PowerHomeBiz.com and it’s an advertising program that has worked really, really well for us. After several back and forth of emails where I explained to him how the program works and offered […]
Surviving the Zoning Laws
One of the perils of running a home-based business is running afoul of the zoning laws. Worse, the zoning officials can force you to close down your business. Sounds unreal? It may be so, but there have been many instances when home businesses have been forced to shut down because they were found to be […]