Source : Sammi Caramela from Business News Daily Etsy is a great place to sell vintage and handmade items, and many collectors and creatives have found a way to make a living selling their wares on the site. However, users have the freedom to sell almost anything – and it can get weird. Here are 14 strange Etsy shops you likely didn’t know existed. Wisnequre06 wisnequre06/Etsy This shop gives off an Annabelle-from- “The Conjuring’” vibe – and for good reason: Apparently, Wisnequre06 is run by a medium. You may wonder who would willingly purchase a haunted porcelain doll from someone ..read more

Source : Adam Uzialko from Business News Daily GDPR is of the largest and most far-reaching data privacy laws in the world. Its requirements apply to all businesses handling the consumer data of citizens in the European Union (EU), no matter their size, industry, or country of origin. If you’ve noticed privacy policy changes flooding your inbox from other companies, such as Microsoft or Facebook, it’s because of GDPR. Now that the regulations carry the force of law, businesses face steep fines for failure to comply. “Its main objectives are to give citizens back personal contro ..read more

Source : Skye Schooley from Business News Daily. Learn the elements of a perfect business name and how to come up with one. A business name is more than just words – it is a representation of your company and brand. The process of choosing a business name may seem simple at first, but there are many factors that play into creating a successful one.  David Poulos, director of marketing at Pinnacle Advisory Group, thinks the creation of your company’s name should be not be taken lightly. It should be something you are proud of and willing to live with for quite some time, he said. While you ..read more

Source : Sammi Caramela from Business News Daily. May 5 to 11, 2019 is National Small Business Week (NSBW). Since 1963, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has sponsored this week, which recognizes and highlights the impact of small businesses across the country. Small businesses are an integral part of any community. As a business owner, you should consider getting involved in your local small business community, during National Small Business Week and throughout the year. Here are six ways to do it. 1. Offer free services or discounts. To benefit your community and its org ..read more

Source : Julianna Lopez from Business News Daily. Filing your taxes can be tricky when you’re self-employed. There’s no avoiding giving Uncle Sam his due, and if you want to avoid an audit, it’s important to do it right the first time. Unlike W-2 employees, self-employed individuals do not have taxes automatically deducted from their paychecks. It’s up to them to keep track of what they owe and pay it on time.  Because taxes aren’t automatically deducted, take-home pay for the self-employed tends to be higher than it is for wage earners. However, unless you want the IRS to come knocking ..read more

Source : Ed Tittel, Kim Lindros and Mary Kyle, Contributing Writers for Business News Daily. Network convergence, in which a single network supports telephone, video and data communication services, has resulted in immense changes to voice and telephony technologies over past decades. Corporate voice and telephony services have transformed from traditional public-switched telephone networks (PSTNs) and private branch exchanges (PBXs) to voice over IP (VoIP) and IP PBXs, often combined with digital fax, videoconferencing, instant messaging and mobile communications. That means VoIP and telephon ..read more

Source : Enid Burns from Business News Daily Writing a sales plan for your business doesn’t need to be hard. These tips will help you write an effective sales plan. Once a company establishes a business plan, each department could use a department-specific business plan to set benchmarks and goals. The sales department is first and foremost in its need for a department plan. Sales plans detail elements such as the objectives of the company and how the sales department will meet those goals. That may be volume of sales or infiltrating a particular market or demographic. The sales plan shou ..read more

Source : Dougal Shaw from BBC News Peter Done talks about his journey from a deprived childhood in Salford in the north of England, to becoming a self-made billionaire, for our business advice series CEO Secrets. He co-founded the betting chain Betfred with his brother Fred Done in the late 1960s, before taking the helm of HR firm Peninsula, which he runs today in Manchester. Peter Done has an abiding memory from his childhood: a pillow being shoved in his face. The culprit was Fred, his elder brother by four years. He shared a bed with him until he was 15 in the family’s two-up, two-down in O ..read more

Source : Mariko Oi from Asia Business Correspondent of BBC News. With five minutes to kill on your commute, or between meetings, which app do you open? For many of us, it is Twitter, Instagram, TikTok or gaming apps. But for more and more teenagers, it’s a metaverse platform to check-in on their avatar. Your avatar can resemble how you look in the real world. Or, you could pretend to be someone, or something, totally different. That’s half the attraction. “My avatar is who I want to be on that day,” says Monica Louise, who is also known as Monica Quin on South Korea’s hugely popular metaverse ..read more

Source : Sameer Hashmi from Middle East Business Correspondent The spread of the new coronavirus variant, Omicron, will slow the recovery for the airline industry, but it has not dented overall demand for tickets during the busy winter travel season, according to Emirates airline president, Tim Clark “Omicron slowed our momentum somewhat, but we are still seeing positive demand recovery overall,” Mr Clark tells the BBC. For people travelling internationally, the spread of the new Covid-19 variant is ushering in new testing rules, border closures and the rapid reintroduction of quarantine measu ..read more