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Home Business NewsPlease note: As of June 2005 I now update the home business news on the Home Business BLOG 06.13.05 Matt Rivers became an entrepreneur at age 17 when his favorite surf shop went out of business, and he bought it with money he made as a dishwasher. Read More ... Donnie Overcast Jr., owner of More Than Glass, started doing custom glasswork as a hobby in 1982. Today, as a provider of glass and custom class products, his business handles nearly 60,000-square-feet of specialty glass per year. Read More ... 05.24.05 Web savvy entrepreneurs have snapped up domain names related to the Paul Bernardo-Karla Homolka case, while others are peddling videotapes and books about the case on EBay. Read More ... It's hard to imagine when you're looking for that first pre-seed dollar, but the day may come when business really starts happening and, in fact, begins to grow rapidly. "A good problem to have," you say. Well, "yes and no." Poorly managed growth can kill your company just as surely as a wily competitor. Read More ... 03.13.05 A Yuba City entrepreneur is on fire with an idea for a new Plumas Street business. Jonathan Anderson wants to open a cigar and wine shop at 728 Plumas St. called The Bogart Room. Read More ... He is sure his company, SuperPlug, has a product that could revolutionize the automotive and heavy machinery industries, clean up the environment and make him and his partners a load of money. Read More ... 03.12.05 Monster.com "Do You Have What It Takes to be an Entrepreneur?" Quiz. Read More ... DOVER — A Business Start-Up Basics Seminar is being held Wednesday, March 16 for anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of starting and running a business. Read More ... 03.11.05 Planning a Working Retirement - W.D. Crotty is old enough (and has the gray hair to prove it) to have heard it all before. Our politicians are going to "fix" Social Security -- yeah, and the family pet, too. But, you and your senator face a common problem. You may have to work after age 65 to avoid outliving your retirement funds. Read More ... 03.05.05 The Linton-Stockton Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the Fifth Annual Home and Business Expo Saturday at the Indiana National Guard Armory located on State Road 54 East. Read More ... Today's tax code is so complicated, more and more Americans are hiring professionals-from personal accountants and financial advisors to nationally known companies like H&R Block-to do their yearly tax returns. Read More ... 03.02.05 ST. CLAIRSVILLE - It's not often that businesses can find exposure to more than 25,000 potential customers in just three days. That opportunity is just around the corner. Read More ... RALEIGH – Ernst & Young is now seeking nominations for its annual Entrepreneur of the Year program. E&Y has honored winners in a variety of business categories over the past 18 years. Read More ... FORT WORTH — U.S. airlines have lost more than $30 billion since 2000, so Ash Huzenlaub understands the "Are you crazy?" looks when he tells friends he's trying to start a new one from scratch. Read More ... 11.27.04 When people ask what I do for a living, I tell them I work from home. I explain that I have my own business, make my own hours, and I frequently take a big chunk out of a business day to go on one of the kids' field trips. Most times, the person who asks then says, "I sure wish I could work at home." Read More ... When the walk-in customer count at Bob Kasputes' Freeport store, Birdwatcher and Gardener, began declining at the same time L.L. Bean's customer count was increasing in the late '90s, Kasputes saw a problem. His sales were doing fine, but where were the new customers? Even his online catalog sales came from vacationers who had visited his shop at least once. Read More ... 10.30.04 When the light bulb went off over Benjamin James Jr.'s head, it was shaped like a horse. Read More ... Employers prefer job candidates with both knowledge and know-how, which often disqualifies recent college graduates who lack experience in their desired career choices. Some students opt for internships while others perform co-ops, but for a select group of students in the Business School, the RedShirt Company was the answer. Read More ... 10.24.04 Stephen Culp, CEO of Chattanooga's SmartFurniture, is featured on the November 2004 issue of Inc. Magazine that hit news stands October 12. Read More ... WASHINGTON, DC -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/21/2004 -- Few people realize the Federal Government has billions of dollars in free aid and technical assistance available for women, minorities, church groups and small business. Many of these government grants, loans and other sources of aid are never awarded. The reasons are eligible businesses and entrepreneurs do not know about them or give up their search after being confronted with bureaucratic red tape. If you are recently unemployed or credit problems are holding you back from starting a business, buying a home or new car, here is important news. Government and private lending institutions are now joining forces to stimulate the national economy and make it easier for women, minorities and people with poor credit ratings to get low interest loans. Read More ... Although the expressed reasons for wanting to work from home are many and varied, most home based business owners cite the ability to set their own hours as a major factor in their decision to work at home. However, many people that have work at home businesses often fall into a trap that flies directly in the face of their stated desire for time flexibility. Read More ... 09.30.04 Recent headlines about the horrors of rush-hour commuting were deeply satisfying to those of us who work in home offices. Read More ... 09.21.2004 Erin Lovings decided to do contract work at home. Jo Charlton began taking classes in the evening. Susan Lazelle started her own home-based business. Read More ... 09.02.2004 The Home Based Business Association will continue gathering comments and data from home-based entrepreneurs in Montrose County even though the Montrose County commissioners seem to be backing away from the unpopular proposed changes to county regulations affecting those who work from home. Read More ... On October 1, 2 and 3, 2004 in Atlanta, GA, at the downtown Hilton Hotel, the Joint Venture Summit of the Century III will feature a Small Business/Home Business Expo trade show, for the first time ever. Read More ... 08.22.2004 The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 19.8 million people do some work at home as part of their primary job. Based on a survey by Harris Interactive for Office Depot, 68 percent of American adults have home offices-workspaces, and only 20 percent say that their home office is set up “just the way the like it.” Fewer still – 16 percent – say their office is a stimulating place to work. Read More ... 08.10.2004 Local and state officials, hoping to peel off at least some traffic at peak hours, are making common cause with downtown business leaders and Internet service providers to encourage more workers to telecommute. Read More ... 08.04.2004 Every morning as people wake up and make the commute to work, many dream of the day when they will finally work for themselves. Every time the boss lets someone know that they must give up their weekend plans for the good of the company, people contemplate the benefits of being the owner of their own business. Read More ... Beginning next month, Clark County will issue permits to residents who operate businesses from their homes. Read More ... 08.02.2004 Sen. Anita Yeckel (R-Sunset Hills, St. Louis area) hosted a small business conference at Crowder College last week. Representatives from the banking industry and other local businesses met to discuss the effects of the passage of the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Act (SBRFA), a bill that Yeckel had sponsored in the Missouri Senate. Read More ... MONTROSE — A new group has formed in Montrose County to oppose the proposed changes to the county’s regulations affecting home-based businesses. Read More ... |
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