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Member You - What B-School Did Not Teach: Starting a Business with Two Babies at Home
Being a trustworthy professional in business today might seem obvious, but not always followed. This represents 95% of your business success.If you have a retail store that is a clean store, make sure the doors and windows are clean, make sure the store front looks good. Enforce that your employees stay clean an
Another advantage of bartering is that people learn to fully utilize their existing “inventory” instead of spending more money on items they desire. Barter will change your mentality and will defi
Generally retail purchasing agents and departments are fully ordered by this time every year as they ramp up for Christmas Season. In fact the merchandise is also getting well on its way to the warehouses and by mid October the stores are taking in the inventory and getting everything in place. This year we see some differ
It was not like any of the ventures she had started before. With a baby at home and another arriving in a few months, this time Wong had very limited resource, mainly time and monetary investment that she could afford on the new venture.
After contemplating different business plans, Wong decided to start a niche business: online barter. She founded Woonba.com (the Cantonese pronunciation of “let’s exchange”) in April 2005. After two months of successful Beta operations the free online barter site http://www.woonba.com was officially launched.
“Barter is rare because people who barter transact with relatively non-liquid media: specific products or services, as oppose to money, a media that can match almost all sellers’ needs,” said Wong. “Yet, barter is much more fun. Buying items or getting services with money is relatively boring and predictable. Bartering, on the other hand, allows you to get what you want with some of your “excess inventory”, be it the bike that has been sitting in your garage forever, or if you were a masseur, the time on your non-fully booked schedule. You have to be creative in the entire process. If you were the seller, you will also get surprises from time to time because people might make interesting offers to get your items. For example, I posted a digital camera on my site and one day someone offered me a little puppy!”
Another advantage of bartering is that people learn to fully utilize their existing “inventory” instead of spending more money on items they desire. Barter will change your mentality and will defin
Know The Power of Your Words When is the last time you gave your business a good self examine? If its been awhile then it might be time and in doing so one of the most important questions you can ask is simply: Are you what you say you are? Is your product or service in tune with
It was not like any of the ventures she had started before. With a baby at home and another arriving in a few months, this time Wong had very limited resource, mainly time and monetary investment that she could afford on the new venture.
After contemplating different business plans, Wong decided to start a niche business: online barter. She founded Woonba.com (the Cantonese pronunciation of “let’s exchange”) in April 2005. After two months of successful Beta operations the free online barter site http://www.woonba.com was officially launched.
“Barter is rare because people who barter transact with relatively non-liquid media: specific products or services, as oppose to money, a media that can match almost all sellers’ needs,” said Wong. “Yet, barter is much more fun. Buying items or getting services with money is relatively boring and predictable. Bartering, on the other hand, allows you to get what you want with some of your “excess inventory”, be it the bike that has been sitting in your garage forever, or if you were a masseur, the time on your non-fully booked schedule. You have to be creative in the entire process. If you were the seller, you will also get surprises from time to time because people might make interesting offers to get your items. For example, I posted a digital camera on my site and one day someone offered me a little puppy!”
Another advantage of bartering is that people learn to fully utilize their existing “inventory” instead of spending more money on items they desire. Barter will change your mentality and will defi
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“Barter is rare because people who barter transact with relatively non-liquid media: specific products or services, as oppose to money, a media that can match almost all sellers’ needs,” said Wong. “Yet, barter is much more fun. Buying items or getting services with money is relatively boring and predictable. Bartering, on the other hand, allows you to get what you want with some of your “excess inventory”, be it the bike that has been sitting in your garage forever, or if you were a masseur, the time on your non-fully booked schedule. You have to be creative in the entire process. If you were the seller, you will also get surprises from time to time because people might make interesting offers to get your items. For example, I posted a digital camera on my site and one day someone offered me a little puppy!”
Another advantage of bartering is that people learn to fully utilize their existing “inventory” instead of spending more money on items they desire. Barter will change your mentality and will defi
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Another advantage of bartering is that people learn to fully utilize their existing “inventory” instead of spending more money on items they desire. Barter will change your mentality and will defi
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Another advantage of bartering is that people learn to fully utilize their existing “inventory” instead of spending more money on items they desire. Barter will change your mentality and will definitely save you money from this perspective. Not to mention the fact that barter can also save you time because it combines two transactions (selling and buying) into one.
One more advantage of this online business is that it allows Wong to connect to the business world while taking care of her 18 months old baby at home as well as expecting her new baby in July. That is the kind of balanced life that she truly enjoys.
You can check the site out at http://www.woonba.com
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