Job Creation and Small Businesses Blog

It has been another busy week and has been a while since I wrote a blog, but many things have been happening!

Newsletter

We have launched a newsletter. When you register, you receive our free e-Book: 10 Steps to Creating Your Dream Job by Starting a Business. This FREE 38 page (748K PDF file) e-book explains what starting a business means in all areas of your life. You will know what to expect and how to go about it with a step-by-step method that is easy to follow. To get your free copy, got to http://www.whizventures.com/ebook.html

Radio Shows & Entrepreneur Showcase

We have also started a series of interviews of young entrepreneurs on BlogTalkRadio. Our first guest was Ben Weissenstein of Grand Slam Garage. Ben started a lemonade stand at 4, then started his current business, Grand Slam Garage, at 14 and he has added a few more businesses to his repertoire. Follow the story and listen to the interviews at http://www.whizventures.com/showcase.html

Think Tank

If you want your jaw to hit the floor, take a few seconds to check out the evolution of employment since 2004 and see how acute the problem has gotten in 2008-2009. This little animation is short and well worth it. http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/

After seeing that, what are we supposed to think? Isn’t it difficult to figure out what is going on in this economy? Is it getting better or worse? Is it wise to start a business now? Are things going to get back to how they were before the recession? How can we make sense of all of this?

To answer these questions and more, we have set up a special Think Tank of very perceptive people, to help us navigate these tumultuous waters. No, things are not going to get back to where they were before, but there is hope at the end of the tunnel. To learn more about what our Think Tank foresees and recommends, see http://www.whizventures.com/thinktank.html

Eggs All Over Your Business…

We have started a system to recognizing and acknowledge excellent customer service. In this day and age, customer service is not always what it should be, so good service is worth noting.

Have you noticed the 3 golden eggs appearing besides our banner at the top of our WhizVentures.com Web site? Those are the golden eggs used in our grading system. This time, eggs all over your business is really good!

And Now the Eggs Go To…

This week I had 2 very positive customer service experiences with 2 of my suppliers. First, after updating my Flock browser, I encountered a little technical glitch. Imagine my surprise when I received an e-mail from a real person within a few hours of submitting my problem! The problem was rapidly resolved, even if it took several e-mails back and forth. I received answers quickly and the problem was solved.

Three eggs to Flock!

Second positive experience: with my Web hosting supplier, 1&1.com. I called the customer service and got a real person on the line fast and the problem was solved and everything was explained very clearly.

Three eggs to 1&1 as well!

By the way, customer service is one of the recommendations from our Think Tank. And 1&1.com has a special going on right now, if you need very affordable Web hosting. They offer you the first 3 months of hosting for free. Check it out at http://www.whizventures.com/web.html

Of Other Scams…

This week, I have been notified twice that I had won several million dollars in an e-mail lottery. All I need to do now is to give them all my personal information in order to collect my prize. Right! I just hope none of you are getting caught by this! If you want to watch a free tutorial on how to recognize a fraudulent e-mail, go to WhizVentures.com’s Business Tutorials

Many people would like you to believe that there are miracle recipes and want to let you know about them provided that you fork out many hundreds if not thousands of dollars. The trick is to sell you information that you can find for free on the Web for $50, $100, $1,000 and up to $3,000. That is a good business to be in, provided that you have no conscience and do not mind taking advantage of people who are already down on their luck…

At the moment, very few people have a clue of what is really going only , and the few who do have only a partial idea because things are relentlessly moving and nothing is stable. If you want to get an insight and try to understand the situation in order to position yourself for what is coming in the next months and years, read what our Think Tank has to say… (See the Think Tank link above.) And remember that scams take many shapes and forms, and some really look legitimate. To read and learn more about scams, go to http://www.whizventures.com/scams.html