Hello Folks,
It is my duty as an advocate of small and local businesses to spread the word about new and useful tools to help your business adapt and grow.
Earlier today Silkfair.com was brought to my attention. It is an online marketplace similar to eBay or Etsy.
What I like about it:
- Free Online Store for sellers
- Education and positive attitude about social networking to promote seller stores
- Custom URL
- Sellers can use video to sell items
- Sellers can link back to their eBay rating
I’d love to hear what the rest of the community thinks about Silkfair.com. Please check it out and comment back here, at Silkfair’s blog, or suggestions [at] silkfair.com.
Take care,
Emil
This entry was written by , posted on June 27, 2008 at 4:43 am, filed under Business Resources, Consumer Resources, Local Businesses, Social Media and tagged ebay, ebay alternative, etsy, online marketplace, silkfair. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Quick Post:
You can use ping.fm to update your posts on a variety of different social services including Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku, Pownce and Tumblr all in one shot. I just signed up and received this as the beta code to share - “pingofpings”
Enjoy,
Emil
This entry was written by , posted on June 26, 2008 at 9:42 pm, filed under Business Resources, Consumer Resources, Social Media, microblogging and tagged beta code, jaiku, ping.fm, plurk, pownce, sync, tumblr, twitter. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Today, http://www.wischlist.com has relaunched after 10 months out of sight. Make sure you stop by and see the work of our homie, Dave Wischnowsky. You won’t be disappointed.
You can also see him tonight, 5-16-08, on E! at 7pm central time.
This entry was written by , posted on May 16, 2008 at 3:14 pm, filed under Consumer Resources and tagged Blog, chicago tribune, dave wischnowsky, E!, wisch list, wischlist. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Animals Deserving of Proper Treatment
Description: A.D.O.P.T. is a not-for-profit, no-kill, all volunteer organization serving Naperville Il., and the surrounding area. A.D.O.P.T. evaluates and socializes our pets through an in-home care program, and our volunteers work very hard to make the best possible match between your home and lifestyle and our dogs and cats.
Mission: The mission of this Corporation shall be the placement of animals into permanent caring homes and to advance humane treatment of animals through education. The corporation will engage in any and all activities in furtherance of objectives established by the voting membership
To learn more about A.D.O.P.T. and participate go here: http://www.adoptpetshelter.org
Donate here: http://www.firstgiving.com/joleenwisch
This entry was written by , posted on April 22, 2008 at 7:24 am, filed under Business Resources, Consumer Resources, Local Businesses, Non-Profit and tagged adopt, animal shelter, cats, dogs, no-kill, non-profit, shelter. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Here’s a link to a quick article written by Paula Hay on StartUp Nation. It talks about the growing demand for local products and services and provides a couple of resources to learn more. Click Here for the Article
This entry was written by , posted on April 17, 2008 at 6:38 am, filed under Business Resources, Consumer Resources, Local Businesses and tagged aiba, local business, local sustainability, startupnation.com. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
DOWNERS GROVE TATTOOS 24 HOUR TATTOO EXTRAVAGANZA
["HEY EVERY ONE COME CHECK THIS OUT.... ITS GOIN TO BE A BLAST WE ARE GOIN TO HAVE ALLL TYPES OF MEDIA HERE SOOO COME ON DOWN AND MAKE YOURSELF FAMOUS Downers Grove Tattoo"]
This entry was written by , posted on April 4, 2008 at 8:36 am, filed under Consumer Resources, Local Businesses and tagged 23 years, Body Modification, Downers Grove, Downers Grove Tattoo Co., il, international award winning, Piercing, Tattoo, world famous. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
You can download Open Office for FREE at http://www.openoffice.org. If you know how to use Microsoft’s productivity suite, you should have no problem adapting to Open Office. One can create documents in Micosoft file format, so you can email a doc, file, etc to anyone else and the document would be compatible to open in their system. The most recent release of this FREE, open source software is v2.4. Check it out.
This entry was written by , posted on April 3, 2008 at 6:10 am, filed under Business Resources, Consumer Resources and tagged free, microsoft office, microsoft office 2007, open office, open source, openoffice.org, productivity software. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Lattitude is a collectively written zine. If there’s something you’d like to see in an upcoming issue, no problem, get writing. Now, we’re well aware that everyone is not too interested in writing and they just want to read about something. Well, we’d like to help you there too, feel free to send us suggestions and we’ll see what we can do to provide some coverage for your beloved topic.
As for artwork, we’re always open to submissions in that arena as well.
Feel free to send your submissions to: info@lattitudezine.com
This (zine) can be about whatever you, the reader, would like. You can become the writer, the photographer, the artist! We feel different view points on given topics are what make an interesting, honest and true to life publication. Remember we’re looking for writing, photos and art. We can use all the help we can get as there’s only so much our limited resources allow us to get together in a single month.
Lattitude is a free publication out of Louisville, KY collectively written with content and artwork provided by it’s community of readers. Essentially our reader base is our staff. Lattitude is based on principles of free will, individual liberty and do it yourself fundamentals.
In our current form, we’re your standard issue half size, black and white zine. As soon as we have a couple advertisers on board, along with an expanded reader base we will expand to a full size magazine style format. Lattitude will always remain a free publication, not only in the aspect of obtaining each issue but simply in the ability to publish information on whatever topic we deem necessary. Never doubt that.
This entry was written by , posted on March 28, 2008 at 8:47 pm, filed under Consumer Resources, Local Businesses and tagged art, articles, Collectively writtent, content, contribute, lattitude zine, magazine, press, really free press, zine. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
In this post I wanted to let people know what’s out there. Maybe you’re an entrepreneur on the go, a sales professional who needs to be connected at all times OR someone who’s never home, but doesn’t want to miss a call from Mom. In any case, here are the cellular plans and what is offered for around $100/mo(Also, please note that the included features and estimated pricing is to the best of my knowledge as of 3-26-08. We do not represent any of the following companies. I have included web addresses so people can research the information for themselves).
Helio - for unlimited calling, web, text messaging, picture & video messaging, instant messaging, data, e-mail, GPS, and YouTube & MySpace mobile(http://www.helio.com).
Sprint - for unlimited calling, web, GPS, text messaging, direct connect, and e-mail(http://www.sprint.com) .
Verizon - unlimited calling & mobile web 2.0(http://www.verizonwireless.com).
T-Mobile - unlimited calling, text messaging, video & picture messaging & unlimited instant messaging(http://www.tmobile.com).
AT&T - unlimited calling(http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=25197).
This entry was written by , posted on March 27, 2008 at 8:40 am, filed under Business Resources, Consumer Resources and tagged at&t, cellular, cellular phone, helio, mobile, mobile phone, phone, sprint, t-mobile, unlimited, verizon wireless. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
