Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneur’

Local Young Entrepreneur

By JJ Thomas • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: Small Business Profiles

Opelika-Auburn News:
While Auburn and Alabama are battling it out on the college football field, this young entrepreneur from Opelika, Alabama is growing his new business, Tiger Home Inventory Service.
Marc Dolan, currently a student at Opelika High School, started Tiger Home Inventory Service for home owners and business owners in the Auburn, Opelika and Columbus, GA […]



Local Young Entrepreneur

By JJ Thomas • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Small Business Profiles

Opelika-Auburn News:
While Auburn and Alabama are battling it out on the college football field, this young entrepreneur from Opelika, Alabama is growing his new business, Tiger Home Inventory Service.
Marc Dolan, currently a student at Opelika High School, started Tiger Home Inventory Service for home owners and business owners in the Auburn, Opelika and Columbus, GA […]



Unleash Your Entrepreneurial Spirit

By JJ Thomas • Jan 17th, 2008 • Category: Inspiration & Education

Courtesy of Business Know How:

 

The realization you’re in the wrong career does not hit like a lightening bolt. Rather, it festers within you for a long time, slowly worming its way into your consciousness, until one day you realize you’ve known it all along.
It’s romantic to think the heavens will offer up […]



Entrepreneurship Quiz - Find Out What It’s All About!

By JJ Thomas • Jan 9th, 2008 • Category: Inspiration & Education

For all aspiring and practicing entrepreneurs out there, there is now a quiz where you can learn a little more about entrepreneurship in America. It may not change your life, however you are likely to at least learn one tidbit of information you didn’t know. If nothing else, quizzes are always fun, right?
To take the […]



The Entrepreneur Next Door, or At Least Nearby

By JJ Thomas • Jan 4th, 2008 • Category: Inspiration & Education

Courtesy of a NY Times article referencing a new research report recently released by the SBA:
Those who pursue a graduate education are 8 percent more likely to become self-employed, according to new research released by the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy.
The study also found that the greatest predictor of self-employment is prior military […]



Interview of Founder of OfficeMax!!

By JJ Thomas • Dec 4th, 2007 • Category: Inspiration & Education

Courtesy of Small Business Guru:
The following is a podcast interview of Mr. Michael Feuer, founder of OfficeMax. The interview is by Andrew Brown, a small business consultant providing “coaching, inspiration and practical advice for Small Business owners and Entrepreneurs.”
Mr. Feuer founded OfficeMax in 1988 with one store and $20,000 of his own money. The original […]



5 Out of the Ordinary Outsourcing Trends for Entrepreneurs

By JJ Thomas • Dec 3rd, 2007 • Category: Small Business News

Courtesy of TheStreet.com:
If you are an entrepreneur looking to exploit the increasing popularity of outsourcing then this piece might shed some light on potential opportunities.
1. Getting personal. Outsourcing usually brings to mind business tasks, whether that means customer-service calls offshored to India or data-entry work farmed out to a virtual assistant. But why leave […]



Gift List: 10 Gift Ideas for the Small Business Entrepreneur

By JJ Thomas • Nov 28th, 2007 • Category: Small Business News

Courtesy of Kay Bowles and SeacoastOnline:

1. Coffee - Treat your business owner to caffeinated brews that won’t be in every office
2. Motivational books, starting at $10 — There are any number of these, but some stand the test of time. Consider “Guerrilla Marketing” by Jay Conrad Levinson, “212 Degrees” by Sam Parker and MacAnderson (www.simpletruths.com), […]