Archive for March 26th, 2007
Amherst Mom Invents iHearSafe To Protect Kids
Union Leader: A few years ago, Christine Ingemi set out to find a way to protect her children’s hearing while they listened to music on their iPods. Now, the stay-at-home mom has found herself on a list of the top 25 inventors in the country for her iHearSafe earbuds. Earlier this month, Ingemi’s earbuds, earphones [...]
First Coast News: A lot of people get a great idea and think, “I could make a bunch of money with this.” That’s what happened to a Texas mom, and now she has a booming business. It’s a dilemma that every mother knows. So Gail Frankel invented the “Stroll’r Hold’r” “Put your shopping bags and [...]
From Unemployment To Clutter Buster Queen
Entrepreneur Success Stories: Betsy Fein started her professional organizing business shortly after being laid off from her job. Instead of trying to get back into the rat race, she decided to explore her options working from home and spending more time with her kids. Given the constant request of her friends for her help organizing [...]
Entrepreneur Lays Out Her Business
Daily Citizen: Working from her home, Lori Mittelstadt creates dream kitchens for clients buying KraftMaid cabinets. Over time she has been involved in projects both large and small. Some of her designs have been showcased on television, in magazines and in home centers throughout the United States. Many of her designs regularly featured in magazines [...]
Dealing with Kid-Related Emergencies
Lisa Druxman at Entrepreneur: You have a huge day of work planned, but your son is sick and can’t go to school. You are about to leave for your big proposal and realize your daughter created a beautiful crayon work of art on your presentation. You can’t make it to a meeting without your baby [...]
Kristin Edelhauser at Entrepreneur Daily: If you’re looking for a cheaper, faster way to market your product, why not tap into the increasing number of blogging moms? Overall, as a hot demographic, moms spend more than $2 trillion a year, so they definitely have the purchasing power. BlogHer counts more than 400 family and mom-related [...]
Yahoo Finance: Barbara Kavovit — better known as Barbara K — has turned what began as a niche home-improvement business into a mini-empire that now includes a line of fashionable, female-friendly tools available through retailers like Target, two best-selling books and, most recently, an online show. One day I heard my mom talking to some [...]
Business Planning Without Software
Jeff Cornwall in the Tennessean: Many aspiring entrepreneurs turn to the latest business planning software when getting ready to start their businesses, but such tools create too many shortcuts that undermine the crucial process of business planning. To construct an effective and more accurate business plan, it helps to understand how the experts — such [...]
Mobile SMS marketing has taken Europe by storm and it’s here now. People in the United States have embraced text messaging with their cell phones and have become familiar with SMS messaging services such as television voting, polls, and other content services. According to recent studies, US spending on marketing and advertising over wireless networks [...]
Gifts Join Celebrities and Moms
Herald News: When a celebrity gives birth, a Plainfield mother immediately swings into action. Phyllis Pometta creates “Baby Swags” gift baskets for the new celebrity mothers. The baskets are filled with gifts made by stay-at-home, work-at-home moms. Pometta then searches out the celebrity’s “people” to find out where to send the big colorful straw baskets [...]
STELLA McCartney’s clothing line may have been a hit for Target, but potential profiteers have had a reality check on internet auction site eBay. While more than 4000 items from the collection have been listed for sale online since it was launched on March 12, only about half have sold. Only a few have made [...]
Even Target Clothes Bring High Price on eBay
The idea of buying clothing at Target (NYSE:TGT) and then selling it on eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) for six times as much a week later seems crazy. In fact, I would argue that it is crazy: If you have enough money to spend six times as much on a skirt as it costs at Target, why are [...]
Buying Software on Ebay Can Be Risky
One of the cheapest places to buy software is eBay, where merchants sell programs that come directly from manufacturers, saving them from paying a markup to distributors. But it may also be a risky place to shop, as it can be tough to discern good values from scams. Consumers Union–which tracks Web retailers and advises [...]
ebay’s Biggest Per Capita Users Are From Lumberton
Peter DeStefano figures he’s one of the reasons the online auction site eBay has named the township the site’s biggest per-capita user. He’s been selling posters, prints and artwork on the site for almost four years and between his online store, Lumberton House Art Framing Shoppe, and the purchases he makes to bolster his collections [...]
Skype Targeted By Viruses Attacks
The attack is similar to threats that target instant-messaging applications. A targeted Skype user will receive a chat message with the text “Check up this” and a link to a malicious executable called “file_01.exe” on a Web site, Websense said in an alert. If the user runs the file, several other files are downloaded and [...]
eBay Sets Plan to Battle Scammers
eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman last week outlined eBay’s current three-prong approach for battling the phishers and scammers who continually prey on unsuspecting eBay users. Red Herring reported that this past Thursday at the VISA Security Summit in Washington, DC, Ms. Whitman made it known that in the continuing effort to restore basic user security [...]
Associated Press: America loves a good mug shot. The more frizzed, frazzled and frantic, the better. An Orlando entrepreneur has seized on that fascination, recently starting “JAIL,” a weekly newspaper filled with nothing but the unflattering thumbnails. Page after page, with only a few ads in between. “A mug shot is a couple notches below [...]
Inventor Develops First Energy-Efficient Clothes Dryer
Orlando Sentinel: Michael Brown, a former appliance repairman who developed a hydronic heating element by tinkering in his garage, also said his 2-year-old Orlando company, Hydromatic Technologies Corp., has reached $1 million in private investment. “We’re looking pretty good,” Brown said. Hydromatic Technologies hopes to have a Haier dryer on the market in 2008. Haier [...]
Displaced Worker Becomes Entrepreneur
Newton Daily News: Patti Peery was laid off by Maytag. So she entered her local community college, completed their management program and started her own business. Peery’s new business, Fireside Camper Rental, LLC, is one-of-a-kind in central Iowa. Peery rents campers to people who would not otherwise be able to go camping. Peery, her husband [...]
Mark Twain, Wannabe Entrepreneur?
McClatchy Newspapers: If Mark Twain had spent more time writing the kind of books that made him rich and famous and less time and money on get-wealthier projects, speculation and inventions, he and American literature might have been much richer for it. Peter Krass’ new book about Mark Twain, “Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends,” [...]
Toilet Paper Inspiration For Company
U.S. News And World Report: As a former Clinton administration staffer and consultant, Tamara Monosoff had experience in the working world. When her first daughter started pulling toilet paper off rolls, and Monosoff got an idea for an invention that would prevent it, she added entrepreneur to her resume. The title came with a few [...]
