The Most Important Hire You’ll Ever Make

by | Apr 3, 2008 | entrepreneurial mothers, so you think you're in business

Whilst this is a US based article by Melanie Lindner for Forbes.com, the same questions and considerations still apply, which is quite valuable really.

Interesting isn’t it how stuff always comes across your radar, in a most timely manner. I was keen to read this article as it’s a subject I am currently playing with, as I consider options in moving business and life forward. Not that I intend going down the full nanny route, the amount of prep and comfort level analysis will still apply, regardless of the form that the specific details will take.

There just aren’t enough hours in the day. While computers, cellphones and a host of other gadgets have made us all more productive, plenty of striving young couples are busier than ever. So who’s watching the kids?

There are now some 1.3 million Americans who identify themselves as childcare providers, in both facilities and in private homes. A recession might put a few nannies out of work as strapped couples tighten their purse strings, but that’s still a big number–about four nannies for every 100 families with at least one child, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.

As with any important investment decision, nabbing a good nanny takes time, money and focus. Finding a good fit is critical–after all, look at what’s riding on the decision… to continue, click here

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

by | Apr 1, 2008 | business ideas & thinking, entrepreneurial mothers, so you think you're in business

Chris Anderson is the editor in chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail.
His next book, FREE, will be published in 2009 by Hyperion.

click on this link for a taste of what’s to come…
its well worth it! http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all

The new model of free has emerged and is based not on cross-subsidies — the shifting of costs from one product to another — but on the fact that the cost of products themselves is falling fast.

You know this freaky land of free as the Web. A decade and a half into the great online experiment, the last debates over free versus pay online are ending.

In 2007 The New York Times went free; this year, so will much of The Wall Street Journal. (The remaining fee-based parts, new owner Rupert Murdoch announced, will be “really special … and, sorry to tell you, probably more expensive.” This calls to mind one version of Stewart Brand’s original aphorism from 1984: “Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive … That tension will not go away.”)

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