Archive for March 2007
Best Jobs For Parents Returning To Work
Money Magazine: Beverly Israely spent a decade in real estate banking and then took two years off after her second child was born. Early in 2006 she was ready to go back to work but not back to banking. Now she’s an executive recruiter. “It’s a great career for a mother,” says Israely, 40, who [...]
The Detroit News: Kim Lavine drives a 1997 Mercury Mountaineer and her husband, Dave, a 1994 Tempo. Her desk in the basement of their Grand Haven Township home often is surrounded by toy guns and swords courtesy of her sons, Dylan, 10, and Ryan, 8. Twinkie, the family cat, will crawl on her desk and [...]
Moms Learn Value Of Home Businesses
The Acorn: In between driving school car pools and helping kids with homework, an increasing number of Conejo Valley stay-at-home moms are running unique businesses from their kitchens and garages. These multitasking mommy entrepreneurs use their talents to earn extra cash for their families while still being able to stay at home. Diana Turk of [...]
Two Pleasanton Moms Make Homes Fab, Not Drab
Inside Bay Area: Sheri Sudra and Laura Roy are confident you have hidden treasures tucked away in your home. Or perhaps they’re out in the open, just not in the right place. That’s where Sudra and Roy come in. Owners of Deco Home Design, the two Pleasanton residents can “turn your home from drab to [...]
Idle Patents Attract Entrepreneurs
Associated Press: Dilip Kotecha figured his working days were over when he retired from the food-manufacturing industry. But after an unused patent for instant yogurt landed in his lap, he couldn’t resist turning the dormant technology into a business. “I would say our company wouldn’t even be there without that patent,” the 59-year-old entrepreneur said. [...]
Direct Sellers Talk Show Radio Launched
Power Home Biz: An industry first is in the making, the Direct Sales Radio Show hits the Internet air waves the first week of April, 2007. Kristina Cottrell, Direct Sales Radio Show President, launches her newest venture: directsalesradioshow.com. The program will be available 24 hours a day online by clicking one button. The Show will [...]
Moms Getting Some Business Networking In On The Side
West Island Chronicle: A new business-networking opportunity for women came about through its two founders bonding over what they had in common: their children. Dollard des Ormeaux residents Shari Reinhart and Sheba Remer were both frustrated small-business entrepreneurs when they first met while waiting for their children after school. Reinhart, a freelance writer, and Remer, [...]
Springwise: Patrons at select pubs and restaurants in Israel, France and Australia no longer need to worry about change for the jukebox or bugging a dj to play their favourite tunes—they can queue up their music choices via text message from their cellphones. SMS jukebox technology, such as c|station by Australian Rippamedia and SMS DJ [...]
Best Jobs For Parents Returning To Work
Money Magazine: Beverly Israely spent a decade in real estate banking and then took two years off after her second child was born. Early in 2006 she was ready to go back to work but not back to banking. Now she’s an executive recruiter. “It’s a great career for a mother,” says Israely, 40, who [...]
Entrepreneur: Will George Clooney adore your hot product? Does Madonna need your new service? Want to pitch an idea to Sir Richard Branson? ContactAnyCelebrity.com gives you access to the contact info of more that 54,000 celebs from the world of screen, music, athletics, politics and more—as well as info for their agents, production companies, charities, [...]
Biz Resource: MyNewCompany.com
WorkHappy.net: MyNewCompany.com: An online service that handles all of the necessary paperwork and legal documents for incorporation. You can do this paperwork yourself, but it’s typically a quagmire of legalese and headaches. If you’re running your own startup your time is usually better focused on building your business instead of dealing with arcane laws and [...]
Google’s New PPA Program Opens Up New Opportunities for
Search Engine Journal: Last week, Google announced the beta test of their new pay-per-action (PPA) advertising program. In addition, Google mentioned a new ad format, the text link ad (which will presumably be similar to the current referral text link unit.), would be available. This new ad format, along with the new PPA (or affiliate) [...]
Biz Idea: Archiving Internet Content
Dave Winer: I’d like to be able to pay a web company like Amazon or Google a one-time flat fee to host my content for perpetuity. I’d deposit my writing with them, on the web, and not worry about whether or not my heirs will keep paying the hosting bills to keep it alive. Today [...]
Startup Spark: It’s not good enough to want to survive, your goal should be to excel. This is something I’ve dealt with personally – a company that survived but could never get beyond that. Most of the time, surviving is better than dying, and if your business survived through the dot com crash or a [...]
How to Show Recent Comments After the First Post
A reader wrote: Dane, how do you place advertisements (or other content) after the first (and subsequent) posts on your blog? Something I’ve done with my blogs for a long time is to place a variety of different content after different posts on the front page. For instance, on all of the Business Opportunities Weblog [...]
15 Common Mistakes that Violate Google Adsense TOS
Quick Online Tips: Never click your own adsense ads or get them clicked for whatever reason. Never change the Adsense code. Do not place more than 3 ad unit and 1 ad links or 2 adsense search boxes on any web page. Do not run competitive contextual text ad or search services on the same [...]
Juggling Parenthood And A Business
MSNBC: More stay-at-home moms are redirecting their creativity, experience and education into starting businesses on the side. Whether your goals are as simple as supplementing the familyâs income or as lofty as building a company that could eventually be worth millions, starting part-time is a great way to test the business waters. But between helping [...]
Busy Mom Helps Autistic Son With Home Based Business
PRBuzz: Rana Burr is no ordinary mom. When her son, Montana was diagnosed with autism at the age of 6, she decided to take matters into her own hands. âI didnât want to settle for the services that insurance covered or that the school district provided,â? she says. âI am trained in music therapy and [...]
Military Mom Has A Colorful Idea
The Dallas Morning News: DaLonna Rimsky had a stroke of business inspiration while trying to help her children cope with their father’s deployment overseas. Ms. Rimsky turned photos of her husband, Michael, into coloring book pages for Colin, now 6, and Paige, 3, and found the activity helped ease their loneliness. She’s hoping to help [...]
Growing Spotlight On Baby Einstein Founder
USA Today: Julie Aigner-Clark, founder of the children’s educational video company, is appearing this week at Microsoft’s second annual Small Business Summit. She’s also one of 16 millionaire “mompreneurs” — mothers who launched companies — who are the subject of a new edition of Secrets of Millionaire Moms, to be published tomorrow. Aigner-Clark shot her [...]
Squido: Write something worth reading! Put it into Word or a similar word processor. Change your page layout to wide. Even better, change your page size to eight inches wide and six inches high. Use a legible font for the body copy. Times is fine, but boring. Don’t use something fancy. Use a headline font [...]
TV Turning Youth in Entrepreneurs
The Sun: TV shows like The Apprentice and Dragons’ Den are turning Britain’s youngsters into entrepreneurs, official statistics reveal. The programmes featuring charismatic tycoons and wannabe businessmen and women are helping to create a new generation of whiz kids who want to make millions by creating their own companies. Seven out of ten young entrepreneurs [...]
Canada.com: Many mothers have the same “mompreneur” fantasy. It usually hits them after countless days spent changing diapers and nursing hungry babies. It’s rarely that easy, but the dream is compelling enough that it often makes ambitious mothers want to jump on the mompreneur bandwagon. After all, how hard can it be? The answer is [...]
Jim Blasingame: Lockjaw is one of the greatest impediments to small business success. Not the kind you get when you don’t get a tetanus shot after you step on a nail. I’m talking about the tendency small business owners have to not ask questions. It’s amazing to observe this facet of the metamorphosis of entrepreneurs. [...]
Women Entrepreneurs: Win $1000 Tomorrow
Women 2.0: Women 2.0 invites you to submit your business idea on a paper napkin no larger than 7×7 inches. Put it down, mark it up, and propose to us your most innovative solution, an emerging technology, a way to save the world, a way to become rich! We want you to launch your new [...]
Women Entrepreneurs: Win $1000 Tomorrow
Women 2.0: Women 2.0 invites you to submit your business idea on a paper napkin no larger than 7×7 inches. Put it down, mark it up, and propose to us your most innovative solution, an emerging technology, a way to save the world, a way to become rich! We want you to launch your new [...]
NY Times: Think you can juggle phone calls, e-mail, instant messages and computer work to get more done in a time-starved world? Several research reports, both recently published and not yet published, provide evidence of the limits of multitasking. The findings, according to neuroscientists, psychologists and management professors, suggest that many people would be wise [...]
6 Steps To Creating A Super Startup
Fortune: If you want to be an entrepreneur, you’re in good company. An average of 464,000 adults a month create new businesses, according to the most recent statistics available from the Kauffman Foundation , which tracks and promotes entrepreneurship. But starting a business is a complicated, risky, all-consuming effort. Indeed, just two-thirds of new small [...]
Niche Biz: Customized Lingerie
Springwise: When Chicagoan Jenny Dombroski spotted the NikeID website where consumers can customize sneakers according to their preferences, she knew it was a concept that could work for lingerie too. So Dombroski, who loves lingerie but knew nothing about the apparel industry, spent six months networking, asking lots of questions and working in a lingerie [...]
Inventor Tells Mosquitos To Buzz Off
American-Statesman: It was one “skeeter” bite too many for Austin lawyer Blair Dancy. Dancy’s two young boys had walked in from backyard play covered in mosquito welts from the garden and patio areas. The sight of his bump-covered, itching boys was the last straw and the mother of invention. A natural problem solver, he invented [...]
Inc.: EZPay, a Chehalis, Wash.-based financial services firm, has launched an application that enables small businesses to have checks printed and mailed online. EZPay Small Businesses Solutions eliminates the need for business to print checks in the workplace and mail them to customers, clients or suppliers separately, saving time and resources, the company said. “This [...]
AZCentral.com: Valerie Peters, 43, is an 18-year resident of Ahwatukee. Peters was a metallurgical engineer for Honeywell when she had her second child. She went back to work for six weeks then quit to start a home business in August 1996 with one computer and one laser printer. She read a book on mailing list [...]
Mompreneurs Online: New and exciting work options seem to pop up all the time in today’s fast-paced cyber-world. Even so, certain fields have emerged as the most popular — and successful — online choices. Explore our hot picks to see if there’s something that fits your skills, talents or interests. 1. Coaching and Teaching 2. [...]
Entrepreneur Delivers Much-Needed Service
Pittsburgh Live: Grocery shopping for Rene Lopez became magical after he moved Downtown. Lopez merely has to make up a shopping list, and the next day, his groceries are waiting at home for him after work, with the perishables in the fridge and freezer. “I’m working all the time, and I’m just too busy. When [...]
eCommerce-Guide: One day in the early 1990′s Diana Duyser of Hollywood, Fla. made herself a grilled- cheese sandwich. Then she gazed down at the brown skillet marks on the bread: “I saw a face looking up at me; it was the Virgin Mary staring back. I was in total shock,” she later told reporters. Diana [...]
Springwise: When Chicagoan Jenny Dombroski spotted the NikeID website where consumers can customize sneakers according to their preferences, she knew it was a concept that could work for lingerie too. So Dombroski, who loves lingerie but knew nothing about the apparel industry, spent six months networking, asking lots of questions and working in a lingerie [...]
Orange County Momtrepreneur Launches Networking Site For Entrepreneur Moms
WebWire: BusinessMom.net is the newest and most innovative result of the Web 2.0 craze. While WAHMs and mom business owners formerly interacted in linear forums and message boards, they now have the opportunity to create their own âspaceâ? in an online community created just for them. Bunmi Zalob, the Orange County mom behind BusinessMom.net launched [...]
SYS-CON Media: OpMom.com is the most advanced web-based system ever created for moms. From your Command Center you can organize your family’s medical information & create wellness reminders, find & rate local service providers, plan & book the perfect vacation, get a handle on your photos, create & plan events and parties, stay in touch [...]
Jamaica Gleaner: Erica Aquart did herself proud by winning the prestigious Miss Jamaica World Beauty Contest. She went one better and did the whole Jamaica proud when she captured the Caribbean Queen of Beauty title on an impressive performance characterised by charm, poise, grace and lots of confidence (1990). Dreams transformed Erica Aquart Perkins’ life. [...]
A Place For Kids And Their Parents
The Patriot Ledger: Eleven years of personal experience was all it took for Loretta Boutin to know she wanted to open an indoor playground for kids. The 33-year-old mother of four opened Kiddin’ Around Play Gym in Rockland last month as a way to transform her stay-at-home-mom routine into a social environment for children and [...]
Phil Dunn on eBay Seller Central thinks that entrepreneurs with eBay Stores have a doomed business model: eBay Stores offered many sellers an easy to list fixed price goods and move unsold auction items to a static listing with cheap fees and long durations (e.g. 30 days or good til canceled). But the model could [...]
Taking Your Invention to a Trade Show
MSNBC: Trade shows offer inventors and entrepreneurs the opportunity to reach a large number of potential buyers and retailers. They also provide a marketing-sales double whammy: You’ll meet buyers seeking products like yours, and even if you don’t make a sale on the spot, your presence creates awareness about your product. You should also use [...]
PRNewswire: The U.S. Small Business Administration will honor America’s top entrepreneurs — and name the National Small Business Person of the Year — at national ceremonies in Washington, D.C., during Small Business Week, April 23-24. The two-day celebration will honor the small business accomplishments of individuals and business owners at four major award events. The [...]
Pet Owners A Drain On Workplace Productivity
Inc.: Employees fretting over their pets can be a drain on workplace productivity, according Canine Kingdom, an Albany, N.Y -based pet-advocacy group. As many as half of the nation’s workers own pets and most feel guilty about leaving them at home alone when they’re at work, the group said. “Employers can play a vital role [...]
WKBT.com: Two Minnesota men have found their niche in the travel market by taking groups to scary places. Dave Schrader of Circle Pines and Tim Dennis of Burnsville are leading groups on trips to haunted hotels and spooky cruise ships. The two started an online radio show called “Darkness Radio” in January 2006. Within a [...]
Will Google’s Pay-Per-Action Ease Click Fraud?
Internet News: Google is beta testing a different business formula for its AdSense product that eases up on its lucrative pay-per-click model in favor of a pay-per-action model. The new program could help address the click fraud problem that dogs the per-per-click sector of the online ad industry. The idea with the beta test is [...]
PayPal to Launch Cell Phone Friendly Service
PayPal, the online-payment company owned by eBay., said Friday that it plans to launch a new service this year designed to make it easier to pay for items using cell phones and other mobile devices. Cell phone users can currently buy items through PayPal using the standard version of the service that Internet retailers use [...]
eBay Stopped Auctions on Apple iPhone
Online auction house eBay has pulled a sale of six iPhones from its site, saying that it is not confident that the seller can deliver within 30 days. Bidding was frenzied for the phones, which are not due to be released for another six months. The top bid had reached $1,125 before the auction was [...]
Bulgarian Women Arrested in eBay Scam
A Bulgarian woman has been arrested and charged with participating in a scheme that used eBay to scam Americans out of at least $350,000. Her alleged fraud is similar to dozens of scams found on the auction site daily. Mariyana Feliksova Lozanova, a.k.a. “Gentiane La France,” a.k.a. “Naomi Elizabeth DeBont,” was indicted for conspiracy to [...]
1940 Chicagp Bears Watch Going on eBay?
A woman from Woodstock, Ill., recently rediscovered a 1940 NFL championship watch that once belonged to the Chicago Bears’ Gary Famiglietti. The watch was from the 1940 championship in which the Bears beat the Washington Redskins 73-0, the most-lopsided title victory in league history, the Chicago Sun-Times said. Holly Swanson’s husband, who has passed away, [...]
