MKW-Ind.com:
Believe it or not, it is entirely possible for savvy individuals to earn their living through Craigslist. More and more individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit are realizing there are a host of opportunities for those who are willing to work hard to earn a living through hard work, learning about online communities such as Craigslist […]

Washington Post:
With gas prices rising and the stock market diving, we could all use ideas for saving a little money. Here’s one we thought was worth passing along:
If you’re carpooling in someone else’s car or using mass transit instead of driving to work, call your car insurance company to see if you’re eligible for […]

Wall Street Journal Blogs:
Anyone who’s started a business knows it can strain the best relationship. Even working together can be tricky. The New York Times wrote a story yesterday about the challenges of men working for their wives in entrepreneurial ventures. To smooth egos on the home front, many women made conscious efforts to give […]

Real Business:
First, a definition. Business format franchising is ‘a commercial relationship whereby one party allows another to operate clones of a proven business system, and provides initial and ongoing training and support in doing so, in return for initial and ongoing fees’. So, if you have a business, which can be operated as a branch […]

Business Opportunities:
Scott Amron came up with a clever idea using magnets and money.
He created some awesome Cash Money Clips that are made from real money. You can even use the money clip as currency when you are low on cash!
Amron offers his cool Cash Money Clip design in 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and $100 […]

Fresh New Small Business Ideas:
Property management is a business that is regulated and requires a real estate license in many states. This first step requirement means that the potential buyer of an existing business would need to be qualified to run the business. They would also need to meet the same requirements to start one […]

Entrepreneur.com:
* Assess your brand promise. Your brand is your promise to your customer. It tells them what they can expect from your products and services, and it differentiates your offering from your competitor’s. Your brand is derived from who you are, who you want to be and who people perceive you to be. Your brand […]

Furniture Style:
1. Eliminate the costly practice of having two locations for customer pick-up
From: Joe Quintal, Rotman’s Furniture
2. Partner with manufacturers to create a national “Win a Room Full” Web-based contest for consumers
From: Jerry Wingate, Micro D
3. Put a store logo on an eye-catching, eco-friendly “smart car”
From: John Wells, Wells Home Furnishings
4. Create an incentive plan […]

Wall Street Journal Blogs:
Here are five sites to check that may help business owners find insurance, with comments on each:
1. eHealthInsurance.com. This agency site is good for all-around health-insurance shopping and online quotes. Information isn’t available for every ZIP code, however.
2. DigitalInsurance.com. This broker offers services for small businesses with online quotes for individual plans.
3. […]

BusinessKnowHow:
Business and trade magazines that cover your field are essential reading. They’ll alert you to industry trends and issues, regulatory changes, sources of supplies or new products, news about your competitors, demographic data, news of upcoming trade shows and statistics on salaries being paid in the industry and a wealth of other information that is […]

Ecopreneurist:
When I spoke with Nancy Cronin Edwards last week, she had just returned from TechConnect Summit in Boston. Cronin Edwards is a principal in ipCapital Group, a consulting firm specializing in intellectual property strategy, and had been speaking at the conference and was excited, but also concerned about growth in clean tech.
It wasn’t the growth […]

Getting Started by Kris Olson:
Have Financial Controls in Place
Because I did not have the systems in place, like an in house bookkeeper that keeps track of all income and expenses properly on Quickbooks, I could never tell exactly where we were and what trends were taking place for us to plan from. I could tell […]

CNNMoney.com:
Prune coverage on old cars - Once your vehicle is worth less than 10 times what you pay each year to insure it, get rid of comprehensive and collision. Find your car’s estimated value at kbb.com.
Raise your deductible - The point of car insurance is to protect you from catastrophic costs (your emergency fund […]

American Entrepreneurship:
We’ve all seen images of people wielding a pair of scissors and slicing up their credit cards, promising to never go into debt again.
However, truly canceling a credit card takes more than cutting up a piece of plastic. It may also not be a smart idea if you want to stay credit worthy.Here […]

Teenage Entrepreneur:
Typical teenage entrepreneurs are not hard to come by. Indeed you may have inadvertently been one in your life already. In fact when you were between 13 and 18 there’s a 99% chance that you tried to make money in one form or another. I’ll give a run-down of the typical types of businesses […]

The Franchise Magazine:
If you’ve ever looked at a national brand and thought “how can I compete with that?”, the answer might come by securing your own national brand through franchising.
In a recent survey* of franchisees, 19 per cent revealed that their primary reason for selecting their franchise was the “well known brand”. This sentiment is […]

AchievementRadio:
A business school in a box is definitely the quickest, easiest and most reliable way to learn how to start a home based business. If you want to access the very best small business knowledge center money can buy and successfully operate your home based small business, then you should avoid investing in traditional business […]

Entrepreneur:
Business and personal coaches start by getting professional coach training, says Karen Kimsey-House, co-author of Co-Active Coaching.
Find International Coach Federation-accredited training programs at coachfederation.com. Determine your niche by examining your background, your strengths and the kinds of people you’re drawn to helping.
Use your network to find your first clients as well. Says Kimsey-House, ‘It’s […]

Seattle Post Intelligencer:
* Work the numbers. Success in your full-time eBay business requires it to consistently generate enough cash flow to pay a healthy salary, health care insurance, payroll taxes, disability insurance and contribute to a retirement fund. You should be able to determine the amount of sales volume that can minimally reach these objectives. […]

All Business:
1. Medical and legal transcription. If you have transcription skills and the necessary equipment, you can easily work from home for a variety of different companies. Check local community colleges or online for transcription training courses.
2. Medical claims billing. This industry is one of the most popular work-from-home businesses - so much so that […]