Judy Parisella is the Senior Online Marketing and Sales Nut at BuyTeddieOnLine.com, a web based company that she recently founded dedicated to selling Teddie Peanut Butter. Once described by the SBA as an ‘entrepreneur with passion and spunk’, Judy went from a position as the North American Marketing Manager for SAP to unemployed. Twenty-four hours later she began immersing herself in social media marketing eventually establishing her own marketing company focused on SEO, SEM, Social Media, Demand Generation and Inbound marketing. Listen to how a chance conversation at soccer game moved Judy into her new role as an web based business owner.
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Introducing New Horizons
January 6th, 2011By Jackie Simmonds, Blog Editor
With the job market stuck in neutral the unemployed are looking at alternative solutions to earn a living. One solution that has been gaining momentum among the jobless is opening a business.
The reasons are varied; perhaps it has been a lifelong dream but many just want to be in control of their own destiny and never want to be huddled by the water cooler waiting for the next layoff to be announced ever again.
What kinds of businesses are people opening? Many unemployed workers have actually created companies that handle the same tasks as their old employers. Some have always had an idea kicking around in the back of their head and now they are free to explore it. Others have turned to franchising as a way of minimizing the risk of failure. It’s lots of work but they are making it happen.
And just in case you think this is a pipe dream, a recent article pointed out that some of the world’s most successful companies were created as small businesses during a recession. Companies like FedEx, Burger King, GE, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft all started out as tiny ventures during tough economic times and today, they are huge corporations.
New Horizons
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