Gift Business Owners

It’s a jungle out there.  You’re surrounded.  Everywhere you look, there are enemies.  You are all stalking the same prey.  Some of the enemies are giants that tower over you.  They have more weapons and more money to spend on…

Cutting costs? Raising Prices? Tips on how to Reach the Middle Ground

Guest Blogger, Laura Wheeler of Firelight Business Enterprises, shares the following tips with us:
Right now we are seeing prices rising left and right. Are you one of the businesses…

Today’s guest blogger is Michele Pariza Wacek  of www.MichelePW.com.  Recession has become a common word in today’s vocabulary but Michele recently attended a workshop and shares some tips she learned:

In the book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” after
Earth is…

I received an email this morning from Fedex.com.  No, it wasn’t how I could save money shipping my packages via fedex and it wasn’t about how their shipping services could benefit me.  I don’t even know how they acquired my…

Whether you’re starting a new business or trying to grow an existing one, you are well aware that money doesn’t grow on trees.  Ben Franklin’s adage “A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned” makes more today than ever.

Like all of you, I’m familiar with the word “recession”.  My community hasn’t been hit as hard as some others but even here, jobs have been lost and budgets torn asunder.  There’s no question that it’s going to take time…

One of the most valuable things that I have learned through the years is to study what other industries are doing and see how their successes can be applied to my industry.  Today’s tip isn’t from the gift basket industry. …

Remember that money doesn’t bring happiness.
     People with ten million dollars are no happier than those with nine million.

                      Irving R. Levine

Irving R. Levine was a financial reporter who died today.  That statement was tongue in cheeck but when it came…

We’ve all been there.  You’ve decided to expand your business to the internet which means you’ve got to ship those packages.  As the price of gas has climbed over the past several years, carriers have more than doubled their surcharges. …