Archive March 2010

App-ortunity 0

Mar31

App-ortunities are everywhere!

Technology has provided great advancement, yet it has made our lives so full of information yet we get overloaded. We should take this technological opportunity and use it to our advantage. This idea hit me months back while using my iPhone to watch and listen to an accounting presentation for one of my MBA courses while in route to the beach. Even now I write this from my iPhone in an empty waiting room at my local auto center. I’m using this App-ortunity to share how technology has for me, and can for you, change your life.

Whether you need to work but also need to take you dog to he vet, or the long subway/train commute to work acts as your “email break” prior to starting your day. The possibilities for improved function and life freedom via technology is near endless.

Some of you must be thinking I am paid by Apple for all the promotion I do regarding their stock and my love for the iPhone. The truth is, this company and product ROCK!

Here are some examples of how I worked efficiently with my iPhone:

- Wrote a graduate level paper in the car on a roadtrip.
- Reviewed exam material while walking to class.
- Work on financials for a clients business plan while at a friends house pre-gaming*. (*note: this may cause drunk f(x) in Excel….LOL)
- Check emails and reply while walking the dog
- The list goes on and on…

Warning! This does not mean work all the time; it means work smart so you can be efficient in your work life and benefit in your home life.

Baby Business… micro-business as a hobby! 0

Mar28

Micro-business is well know as a charitable method of helping impoversed countries build and develop their economy. Most people who own a small business in the United States are wrapped up in it 100% of the time. With a major group of the baby boomers exiting the full-time workforce they are looking for hobbies that bring in extra money.

An example would be an artist by heart and a teacher by trade who retires and dives into his passion to full-force. He soon finds his hobby has developed into a Baby-Business or micro-business that brings in some money yet never feels like work.

Not to condone tax evasion but many of these baby-businesses can avoid the incorporation mess and “business” feel by simply being paid by check or cash without all the headaches.

Checkout this website for more useful information: http://www.microbusinessnewsbriefs.com/