March 2008 On Sale Now!
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Making Money? Child’s Play!
The statistics certainly cause one to take notice: Sixty-five percent of mothers with children six years of age and under are in the labor force and more than 70 percent of single mothers have jobs outside the home, according to a 2002 study sponsored by the National Child Care Association. According to the same study [...]
Innovative Growth
For an entrepreneur, the idea of taking your innovation and sharing it with someone else—let alone a large corporation—can be an intimidating, if not daunting, task. Which company would be the best partner? How do you ensure you’re protected from a legal perspective? How will you benefit? If your goals are to take your product [...]
Prevent Identity Theft
Forty years ago, few people could have predicted that identity theft would become as big an epidemic as it is today. Few could have imagined the importance of taking mail to the post office instead of leaving it in our mailboxes for pickup, the thought of shredding documents before throwing them in the trash, or [...]
Blue Print For Profit
Next to marrying his wife Trudy, the late Ward Britt often said, the smartest thing he ever did was take her advice. At his wife’s gentle prodding, Britt made a dramatic—and surprising—career change in 1953: He gave up his position as postmaster of Winter Garden, Florida, and bought a lumberyard. Great decision! “Mother said people [...]
Start Your Own Business Winter 2008 On Sale Now!
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Driving Home Success
The first look is a casual one that is usually followed by a double take. The scrutiny grows more intense by the third go-around—and even though they’ve been told what they are seeing—most people continue to shake their heads in denial. “That’s brick, so where is the asphalt?” they say with the smug satisfaction of [...]
Building a Business
Home builder Michael New’s inability to be in two places at one time provided the inspiration for him to found DirectBuild, a turnkey franchised business that provides consulting services to homeowners who act as their own general contractor to build a home, make renovations or add on to their present homes. New was already a [...]
Fast Track To Success
Twenty years ago when Cincinnati businesses needed a package delivered locally ASAP, oftentimes the only option was to call a taxi and cross your fingers. That was common! Courier services represented The Great Unknown. But in 1986, three guys who had been childhood buddies and were now in their mid-20s started catching the eyes – [...]
Up, Up & Away
For years Walt Schoonard breezed along as a distributor of kits for radio-controlled model helicopters, but then he ran into a snag: He was selling the kits faster than the manufacturer could make them. Desperate to stay in business, Schoonard and his son Tim took matters into their own hands—literally and figuratively: They started manufacturing [...]
Start Your Own Business Fall 2007 On Sale Now!
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Perfect Fit
Jigsaw Data Corp., an online database for business contact and company information, has now amassed more than 5.5 million business contacts that are contributed, maintained and accessed by its members. Launched in 2004 with 200,000 organically grown contacts, Jigsaw has grown by an average of 12,000 contacts per day and is leading a cultural shift [...]
Healthy Venture
Trying to navigate through the world of health insurance was a rocky road for Lakewood Ranch, Fla. small business owner Sally Reeder. As owner of Classic World Travel, Reeder became disenchanted with the cost and limitations surrounding traditional insurance plans. The self-employed travel agent began a search for health insurance that didn’t require deep pockets. [...]
Getting Digie With It
Stats show that US businesses are making more than 1 billion photocopies each day and spending more than $25 billion a year to file, store and retrieve paper documents. In many cases, records and information systems often represent 50 percent of the total cost of doing business.? “With the technologies that are available today, it [...]
Renovation Riches
Mark Loberg was 37 years old when he walked into his boss’s office at a Phoenix car dealership where he had been a top executive. He tossed him his keys and walked out on a six-figure income and almost 20-year career in the auto industry with absolutely no idea of what he was going to [...]
