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Business Help

November 21st, 2011

If you are thinking about buying or starting a business, there are mentors to help you. They are part of SCORE, a non-profit organization that has branches all over the country. They will also provide business help for existing companies.

My wife and I have done well with our online business, but we want to diversify. More specifically we want to buy a business that is already successful. And though we have started a few small businesses, we have never bought one. It really is a different process, to say the least. So we made an appointment with a local SCORE volunteer this week.

By the way, there are 13,000 of these volunteers offering confidential business » Read more: Business Help

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Best Small Businesses?

October 31st, 2011

Which are the best small businesses during these relatively tough times? Who is still doing well despite the state of the economy? Here is what a recent article on CNN.com found:

“The economy is weak and consumers aren’t spending freely.

But here’s the good news: There are small business sectors that are growing — and where the chances of success are higher, according to Sageworks, a financial software and information company.

To name a few: Child care. Liquor stores. Services that help people with their finances.”

The article expanded on a few of the small businesses listed;

“Financial investment activities: This sector includes » Read more: Best Small Businesses?

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Earthquake Business

August 7th, 2011

Entrepeneur George Dickson has a business that makes money from earthquakes. More specifically he makes money helping people detect an earthquake before it happens. As reported in the Christian Science Monitor, Dickson’s company, Seismic Warning Systems, gets calls from all over whenever earthquakes are in the headlines.

“The QuakeGuard system on which SWS was founded differs from other earthquake detection technologies because it provides the user with a different kind of information, Dickson said. The sensors in QuakeGuard 300 pick up the earliest shock waves generated by an earthquake, called “P-waves.” These waves arrive before the larger shock waves that cause the most serious damage in an earthquake.

“We approached the P-wave earthquake early warning challenge from the end-user perspective,” Dickson said. “Our focus, and our technology, focuses on the intensity of an earthquake rather than » Read more: Earthquake Business

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