What Company Is Offering:wibiki replaces ads with a fun social community that lets you post to web pages everywhere.
What For:
Wibiki is developed by the people who believe in web ubiquity and freedom. Wibiki is working to make connectivity between users fun, dynamic and resourceful. In fact, the Internet is underutilized and needs to grow at the "edge". Wibiki is researching new ways to make the Internet easy to use and develop community awareness. We believe "Users Rule" and are developing software to nurture your rights on the Internet! Our downloads are free.
How It Works:
With wibiki you see links to sites that interest you instead of ads that you could care less about. If you want you can take a look and see what other users are posting links to and their comments on the sites. You can either download wibiki or follow the easy instructions on how to use it without having to download. To use wibiki you simple register. It is free and easy to use. Take control over your internet surfing experience and make it your own with wibiki.
More at:http://wibiki.com/
Monday, September 24, 2007
Financial Planning Toolkit
These calculators require that you have Java installed on your computer. It is available, without charge, at the Sun Microsystems web site. If your browser displays a blank box in the middle of the screen, you need to install this plug-in.
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Mortgage Calculators Loan Calculators
Credit Cards and Debt Management Automobile Calculators
Investment Calculators Retirement Savings and Planning
Tax Calculators Savings Calculators
Personal Finance
Business Calculators
Check all:http://www.finance.cch.com/tools/calcs.asp
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Mortgage Calculators Loan Calculators
Credit Cards and Debt Management Automobile Calculators
Investment Calculators Retirement Savings and Planning
Tax Calculators Savings Calculators
Personal Finance
Business Calculators
Check all:http://www.finance.cch.com/tools/calcs.asp
Are You A Good Leader?
I am my own boss.� That sounds pretty good, right? No wonder so many Americans start businesses every year. Entrepreneurship provides an ideal opportunity to take control of your career, set your own schedule and pursue long-held interests or new opportunities.
Along with the pride and prestige come a number of responsibilities, among the most important of which is leadership. You�re in charge of setting the direction for your firm, inspiring employees to do their best, and coolly handling the good, the bad, and the unexpected. You can�t delegate this role to anybody, nor can you simply allow things to work themselves out. Leadership begins and ends with you, �boss.�
Are you doing everything you can to be a good leader and cultivate an atmosphere that�s conducive to success? Find out by taking this quick quiz.
1) Do you regularly monitor economic and social trends that affect your employees, customers and suppliers?
Yes No
2) Do you encourage employees to try new ideas or assume more responsibility?
Yes No
3) When there�s a problem, do you work with employees on understanding how and why it happened, rather than seeking out a scapegoat?
Yes No
4) Do your company's policies reflect flexibility and consideration of various needs?
Yes No
5) Do you regularly communicate with employees, and do you encourage them to communicate with you?
Yes No
Along with the pride and prestige come a number of responsibilities, among the most important of which is leadership. You�re in charge of setting the direction for your firm, inspiring employees to do their best, and coolly handling the good, the bad, and the unexpected. You can�t delegate this role to anybody, nor can you simply allow things to work themselves out. Leadership begins and ends with you, �boss.�
Are you doing everything you can to be a good leader and cultivate an atmosphere that�s conducive to success? Find out by taking this quick quiz.
1) Do you regularly monitor economic and social trends that affect your employees, customers and suppliers?
Yes No
2) Do you encourage employees to try new ideas or assume more responsibility?
Yes No
3) When there�s a problem, do you work with employees on understanding how and why it happened, rather than seeking out a scapegoat?
Yes No
4) Do your company's policies reflect flexibility and consideration of various needs?
Yes No
5) Do you regularly communicate with employees, and do you encourage them to communicate with you?
Yes No
And Millinoaire Born......
Megan Duckett, 35
Sew What? Inc.,Rancho Dominguez, California
Projected 2007 Sales: $4.6 million
Description: Manufacturer of custom theatrical draperies and distributor of flame-retardant fabrics
Finding her way: After immigrating to the U.S. at age 19, this native Australian found work as a technician for a concert production company--and started sewing in her spare time. Her first gig was sewing fabric coffin linings for a Halloween show. "I rented a [sewing machine] and lined 10 coffins," recalls Megan Duckett. "[I discovered] that I had a talent and an ability to manipulate the fabric in a craftlike way, and I really enjoyed it." Duckett worked evenings and weekends on her craft business, and in 1997 she quit her full-time job, rented a warehouse and officially incorporated.
Building Buzz: Not one to wait for the phone to ring, Duckett used every inexpensive marketing tool she could, such as mailers, fliers and handmade business cards. She also chatted up her company's services every chance she got. "Everyone was a potential customer," she says. That grass-roots marketing led to her making draperies for theater, concerts and special events worldwide.
Creative Coverings: Manufacturing the custom draperies for Rod Stewart's latest concert tour was a highlight for Duckett. "We made about 1,500 yards of the Stewart family tartan," she says. "We made it into this enormous design that would register onstage with the audience--it was totally unique." The work of Sew What? has also graced the tours of such legends as Gwen Stefani, Prince and Fleetwood Mac, to name a few. But despite a packed schedule, she still makes time to help the community: Duckett founded From Stages to Students, a program that provides free or low-cost draperies to school theater programs and community rehabilitation centers that teach sewing.
Follow Her Lead: Chat up your new business every chance you get, as you never know where leads will come from.
More at:http://sewwhatinc.com/
Via-http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2007/october/184394-3.html
Sew What? Inc.,Rancho Dominguez, California
Projected 2007 Sales: $4.6 million
Description: Manufacturer of custom theatrical draperies and distributor of flame-retardant fabrics
Finding her way: After immigrating to the U.S. at age 19, this native Australian found work as a technician for a concert production company--and started sewing in her spare time. Her first gig was sewing fabric coffin linings for a Halloween show. "I rented a [sewing machine] and lined 10 coffins," recalls Megan Duckett. "[I discovered] that I had a talent and an ability to manipulate the fabric in a craftlike way, and I really enjoyed it." Duckett worked evenings and weekends on her craft business, and in 1997 she quit her full-time job, rented a warehouse and officially incorporated.
Building Buzz: Not one to wait for the phone to ring, Duckett used every inexpensive marketing tool she could, such as mailers, fliers and handmade business cards. She also chatted up her company's services every chance she got. "Everyone was a potential customer," she says. That grass-roots marketing led to her making draperies for theater, concerts and special events worldwide.
Creative Coverings: Manufacturing the custom draperies for Rod Stewart's latest concert tour was a highlight for Duckett. "We made about 1,500 yards of the Stewart family tartan," she says. "We made it into this enormous design that would register onstage with the audience--it was totally unique." The work of Sew What? has also graced the tours of such legends as Gwen Stefani, Prince and Fleetwood Mac, to name a few. But despite a packed schedule, she still makes time to help the community: Duckett founded From Stages to Students, a program that provides free or low-cost draperies to school theater programs and community rehabilitation centers that teach sewing.
Follow Her Lead: Chat up your new business every chance you get, as you never know where leads will come from.
More at:http://sewwhatinc.com/
Via-http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2007/october/184394-3.html
If at first you don’t succeed, try try again
If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.
Estée Lauder imposed herself on the cosmetics world despite being rebuffed repeatedly when she tried to get her own counter at Saks Fifth Avenue department store.
Born Josephine Esther Mentzer in Queens, New York in 1906, Estée Lauder went on to forge the world’s most successful cosmetics empire. Lauder believed she “was growing a nice, little business.” By 2003 her “little” business was worth $10bn and its product range now sells in 130 countries.
The daughter of Hungarian immigrants got her big break at Saks Fifth Avenue in 1948 through sheer persistence. She prospered thereafter thanks to her uncle, a chemist, whose cosmetics she used, and her now legendary sales expertise.
Unable to advertise, Lauder instead offered free gifts to customers, an innovation since replicated across the industry. Customer service was central to her ethos. Even in her autumn years the doyenne of cosmetics would turn up at Saks on a Saturday afternoon and dispense sales advice to staff. “I have never worked a day in my life without selling, she once said. “If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.”
She also believed in beauty: “Why are all brides beautiful? Because on their wedding day they care about how they look. There are no ugly women – only women who don't care or who don't believe they are attractive.”
Just because she stood up for the everywoman, however, it didn’t mean she wanted to hang out with them. When she held extravagant parties, it was rich, beautiful celebrities she invited round. She could be bitchy about her peers though. She derided Elizabeth Arden’s lack of generosity and called another competitor, Charles Revson, her “arch and implacable enemy”.
Up until the age of 87, when she broke her hip, Lauder continued to play an active role. She died, aged 97, in April 2004. Thus, “a chapter from the American business folklore,” – as Time magazine has called the Estée Lauder story – was closed.
Ubops.com The Business Opportunities Marketplace
Estée Lauder imposed herself on the cosmetics world despite being rebuffed repeatedly when she tried to get her own counter at Saks Fifth Avenue department store.
Born Josephine Esther Mentzer in Queens, New York in 1906, Estée Lauder went on to forge the world’s most successful cosmetics empire. Lauder believed she “was growing a nice, little business.” By 2003 her “little” business was worth $10bn and its product range now sells in 130 countries.
The daughter of Hungarian immigrants got her big break at Saks Fifth Avenue in 1948 through sheer persistence. She prospered thereafter thanks to her uncle, a chemist, whose cosmetics she used, and her now legendary sales expertise.
Unable to advertise, Lauder instead offered free gifts to customers, an innovation since replicated across the industry. Customer service was central to her ethos. Even in her autumn years the doyenne of cosmetics would turn up at Saks on a Saturday afternoon and dispense sales advice to staff. “I have never worked a day in my life without selling, she once said. “If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.”
She also believed in beauty: “Why are all brides beautiful? Because on their wedding day they care about how they look. There are no ugly women – only women who don't care or who don't believe they are attractive.”
Just because she stood up for the everywoman, however, it didn’t mean she wanted to hang out with them. When she held extravagant parties, it was rich, beautiful celebrities she invited round. She could be bitchy about her peers though. She derided Elizabeth Arden’s lack of generosity and called another competitor, Charles Revson, her “arch and implacable enemy”.
Up until the age of 87, when she broke her hip, Lauder continued to play an active role. She died, aged 97, in April 2004. Thus, “a chapter from the American business folklore,” – as Time magazine has called the Estée Lauder story – was closed.
Ubops.com The Business Opportunities Marketplace
She Recognized A Business Opportunity After Personally Discovering A Need
Adrienne Simpson, founder of Smooth Mooove, has staked her claim in what could become an attractive new industry. Like so many entrepreneurs, she recognized a business opportunity after personally discovering a need. While moving her parents from Georgia to Michigan, she searched without success for a specialized company that would be able to help. Thanks to Simpson’s hard-knocks lessons, Smooth Mooove’s clients can now choose from a lengthy menu of services within three basic moving plans. Services range from cleaning up vacated homes once all household items have been loaded on a truck, to hanging drapes and shopping for new items for a client’s new home. Although any move is costly, Simpson says Smooth Mooove can actually save time and money. Since family members often have to take time from work to help a parent move, the company isn’t just marketing its program to seniors, but also to corporate clients, as an employee benefit for children of aging boomers.
Smooth Mooove, based in Stone Mountain, Georgia, joins a growing list of concierge-like services focused on seniors, including other moving companies that are starting to serve this market. As populations age throughout the industrialized world, the need for similar services will expand, creating plenty of room for new competitors to differentiate themselves through innovative services or by segmenting the senior market in any number of ways. Plush retirement communities, for example, might contract with a moving service as an added inducement to buyers. In the end, the success or failure of moving companies for seniors—as with any high-touch service enterprise—will hinge on how well they manage the details. And, equally important, on the respect, consideration and care given to their clients in the process.
Website: www.wemoveseniors.com
Via-Springwise
Smooth Mooove, based in Stone Mountain, Georgia, joins a growing list of concierge-like services focused on seniors, including other moving companies that are starting to serve this market. As populations age throughout the industrialized world, the need for similar services will expand, creating plenty of room for new competitors to differentiate themselves through innovative services or by segmenting the senior market in any number of ways. Plush retirement communities, for example, might contract with a moving service as an added inducement to buyers. In the end, the success or failure of moving companies for seniors—as with any high-touch service enterprise—will hinge on how well they manage the details. And, equally important, on the respect, consideration and care given to their clients in the process.
Website: www.wemoveseniors.com
Via-Springwise
Venture Watch
What Company Is About:
Caring.com is a site having assistance and knowledge/experience sharing for those who are care givers.
Who Will Get Benifited:
Those person who will find ourselves caring for others at one point in our life can benefit greatly. Caring for loved ones is not something you are taught, study, or prepare for (unless it is your profession), however it is extremely important for obvious reasons. The idea of others sharing their experiences and still others learning from them when they need to educate themselves as quickly as possible is brilliant and a great use of the knowledge sharing capabilities of the online world.
How Much They Raised:
Caring.com received $6 Million from DCM and Split Rock Partners.
More at:http://www.caring.com/
Caring.com is a site having assistance and knowledge/experience sharing for those who are care givers.
Who Will Get Benifited:
Those person who will find ourselves caring for others at one point in our life can benefit greatly. Caring for loved ones is not something you are taught, study, or prepare for (unless it is your profession), however it is extremely important for obvious reasons. The idea of others sharing their experiences and still others learning from them when they need to educate themselves as quickly as possible is brilliant and a great use of the knowledge sharing capabilities of the online world.
How Much They Raised:
Caring.com received $6 Million from DCM and Split Rock Partners.
More at:http://www.caring.com/
Virtual Currencey
Acebucks, one of the primary virtual currencies on Facebook has just raised $1.5 million from a powerhouse team of investors. Aryeh Goldsmith, the developer of Acebucks, was acquired by Michael Lazerow to form Buddy Media. Buddy Media investors include Howard Lindzon, Peter Thiel, Mark Pincus and James Altucher.
The focus of Buddy Media is to expand the AceBucks application and make it the primary virtual currency on Facebook. Acebucks will soon launch an API which enables developers to integrate the virtual currency into their own applications. For example if you are winning points on a poker application, you can convert those points into Acebucks.
Acebucks can be used to purchase both virtual and physical assets through the new Facebucks store which is about to be launched. Acebucks is being modeled after the AMEX rewards system. Buddy Media plans on launching some creative marketing campaigns via the Acebucks application.
More at:http://www.facebook.com/login.php
The Acebucks application is going to be able to expand into a number of larger applications thanks to their powerhouse investment team and some pretty large partnerships that they are announcing in the coming days. If you want to learn more about Acebucks, go check out the application.
The focus of Buddy Media is to expand the AceBucks application and make it the primary virtual currency on Facebook. Acebucks will soon launch an API which enables developers to integrate the virtual currency into their own applications. For example if you are winning points on a poker application, you can convert those points into Acebucks.
Acebucks can be used to purchase both virtual and physical assets through the new Facebucks store which is about to be launched. Acebucks is being modeled after the AMEX rewards system. Buddy Media plans on launching some creative marketing campaigns via the Acebucks application.
More at:http://www.facebook.com/login.php
The Acebucks application is going to be able to expand into a number of larger applications thanks to their powerhouse investment team and some pretty large partnerships that they are announcing in the coming days. If you want to learn more about Acebucks, go check out the application.
With Snapvine you can put multiple copies of the voice player on different sites
What Company Is Offering:At Snapvine.com you can send and receive audio messages. You can send messages without registering, but if you want to make a profile and set up a voice player on your personal page you must register. Set up a voice player and make an introduction with a photo and instructions on how to use Snapvine so that others can leave you messages. You can send a “shot out” to all of your friends. A shout out is a recording of your voice that you can send to multiple people, either other Snapvine users or other friends whose email addresses you enter. Comments are more fun when you can hear them. You can create a voice blog which is the newest way to keep in touch with friends and family. Make comments and communication more personal by including your voice at Snapvine.com.
Its Unique Features:With Snapvine you can put multiple copies of the voice player on different sites. You can put copies in all of your social networks and your blog and receive the same comments on each site. You can invite people to send you messages, by making an introduction and uploading a photo. People can send you messages without registering with Snapvine. With Snapvine.com you can also receive mobile alerts which notify you when you have received an audio message.
More at:http://www.snapvine.com/
Its Unique Features:With Snapvine you can put multiple copies of the voice player on different sites. You can put copies in all of your social networks and your blog and receive the same comments on each site. You can invite people to send you messages, by making an introduction and uploading a photo. People can send you messages without registering with Snapvine. With Snapvine.com you can also receive mobile alerts which notify you when you have received an audio message.
More at:http://www.snapvine.com/
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