
Last week, Google released yet another gadget that may win them friends with small business owners. It’s called the Google Checkout store gadget and it essentially allows you to use Google Checkout and Google Docs to to easily create your own online store in a matter of minutes. What makes…

(PRESS RELEASE – August 4, 2009) – Social media can be an effective tool for promoting your business or brand. But without a plan for how you’ll use it, you could lose valuable time trying to keep up with an ever-evolving landscape of new information and tools.
An upcoming…

YouTube is the number two most trafficked website on the Web for a reason… and that is that it’s fun and useful, and as you will find out, not just for kids and non business people. But the first thing you have to figure out as a small business person is the possibilities that YouTube…

New York City ( PRESS RELEASE – August 3, 2009 ) — Ultra Light Startups is hosting an interactive panel discussion on the critical strategies necessary for website owners who need to attract and engage “local” businesses and consumers.
What: Attracting “local”…

San Francisco, California (PRESS RELEASE – August 3, 2009) – Yola, Inc., the leading free website builder, has two reasons to celebrate: the company recently reached its two million user mark, doubling in size since announcing one million in January; and it is inviting small businesses…

Shouldn’t airlines have a consistent policy for handling the instruments of professional musicians?
Today they do not. If you are a musician traveling by airplane, you currently don’t know for certain whether you’ll be able to carry on many instruments — or have to risk…

HOBOKEN, (PRESS RELEASE – August 2, 2009) – A business advice book for would-be entrepreneurs by Jerry Carter, who founded and grew his payroll processing firm to $8 million in annual revenues in just five years, is now available.
“Business Clarity: Clarifying The True Meaning of…

(PRESS RELEASE – August 1, 2009) — A business plan is a road map showing how an entrepreneur is going to start and run his or her business. The benefits far outweigh the time it takes to write the plan because it gives the entrepreneur the ability to develop assumptions, consider…

Royal Palm Beach, Florida (PRESS RELEASE – August 1, 2009) -The iPhone continues to dominate the smart phone market , and available iPhone apps total well over 65,000. People are eager to get in on the iPhone application craze to promote their businesses or just to make an extra buck. As the…

Sometimes it’s not about the book. It’s about the person writing the book. And it’s about the person reading the book. I’ll let you think about that for a moment while I go about the business of sharing my experience of “Divas Doing Business” by Monique…