Archive for April 4th, 2007
Teaching Musicians to Be Entrepreneurs
Business Week: In most areas of higher education, entrepreneurship has long lost its stigma as a career path for those without one. But at the nation’s top music conservatories that stigma is still very much alive, despite the fact that the “traditional” career path for classically trained musicians—one that ends with steady employment in a [...]
Mom's Invention Gets Baby In The Swim
Ottawa Citizen: Ever try taking two squirmy, slippery little kids to the pool? It’s not the easiest challenge that a new parent faces. Just ask Catherine Hiscocks. After the birth of her second son, she liked to take her kids to the swimming pool at the Family Leisure Centre in Calgary. One day, Zach, then [...]
The Pinchy Crab Opens For Business
PRWeb: Fine stationery and gift enthusiasts have a new online shopping hot spot because The Pinchy Crab’s e-commerce store has launched. Visitors will be delighted to find gifts for every occasion and top paper collections from designers such as Sweet Pea Designs and Boatman Geller. Owner Deborah Zehe, a stay-at-home mom, has a passion for [...]
Businesswoman Wins National Award
The Daily Advertiser: Tereson Thomas, CEO of New Iberia-based Mother of Eden Inc. and inventor of the Fuzzi Bunz diapers, has been named Best Entrepreneur at the third annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Thomas began building Mother of Eden nearly eight years ago and invented and patented the Fuzzi Bunz pocket diaper system [...]
Dowagiac Mom Opening Youthful Consignment
Dowagiac Daily News: WHO kNEW? Consignment, brought Kris Lamphere’s life to a standstill. Literally, because she used to be a “book lady” for Reader’s Digest, covering a 15-county area. Originally from Chicago, her family has been coming to Big Crooked Lake for four generations. Lamphere has lived in Dowagiac since 1995. “We decided to come [...]
Young Mom Manufactures Babywearing Gear For Parents
PRWeb: Rolz & Sassy knows what savvy parents want. They know that when you hold a baby, he cries less. As it’s not practical for parents to hold their baby all day, they’ve manufactured a line of wraps and slings so Mom and Dad can wear their baby — an ideal solution that helps parents [...]
Tricks Of The Trade: A hotel manager offers this tip: Always ask for a business discount. Most motel and hotels have corporate discounts. In fact, when buying any product or service, try asking for a discount. You’ve got nothing to lose, and you’ll be surprised by how often it works. Photo by MSDesign.
PC World: PayPal has launched a product aimed at helping small and medium businesses accept online payments securely and cost-effectively. The Website Payments Pro product is the first non-hosted payment suite from PayPal, a subsidiary of online auction giant eBay. It includes Express Checkout, Direct Payment API and Virtual Terminal functions, so firms can let [...]
Teen Finds Her Niche In Stitching Hoodies
Contra Costa Times: When most teen girls can’t find anything to wear they ask mom for a credit card and hit the mall. But when 18-year-old Ali Madigan had nothing to wear, she decided to make a sweatshirt out of some spare fabric. She never imagined that the sweatshirt would turn into her own line [...]
Online Video Generating Excitement
BtoB Online: Online video is becoming the killer application of the Internet as b-to-b marketers embrace it as an integral part of their marketing programs, using it in such disparate formats as 15-second banner ads and long-form documentaries. Spending on online video advertising will more than triple in the next three years, growing from $775.0 [...]
Entrepreneur Daily: If your company’s involved with sales, you may have to start working a little harder to close the deal. A Florida State University researcher says consumers are growing increasingly suspicious of sales pitches and tend to react to them with skepticism. To gather data, the researchers conducted experiments at a sunglass kiosk. In [...]
