Archive for April 25th, 2007
Franchise Meal-Maker Serving Up A Cookbook
Winston-Salem Journal: Twenty-one years ago, Stephanie Allen started getting together with a friend once a month to make a dozen dinners in one day. She would stick them in the freezer to pull out on those nights when family, work and other obligations all seemed to conspire against a home-cooked meal. Little did she know [...]
Work At Home Moms Submit Articles And Win Prizes
eMediaWire: Many work-at-home-moms (WAHMs) already know submitting articles to online directories can build a web presence for a home business. One article site is doing even more to help WAHMs build their businesses, one writer at a time. WAHM-Articles.com, the article directory that provides WAHMs with inspiration and legitimate home business information, launched its Writer [...]
Mocha Moms Offer Support And Sisterhood
Tennessean.com: Mocha Moms, Inc. started in 1997, when Jolene Ivey and Karla Chutz began publishing a newsletter called “Mocha Moms,” “in the hopes of connecting with other mothers of color across the country.” According to information on the national Web site, by June of 1997, Ivey and Chutz teamed up with Cheli English-Figaro to make [...]
Business 2.0: As students at Stanford University, Lily Kim, Shu Lindsey, and Adrian Mak had trouble finding the precision pens they liked to use, the Japanese made ultrathin ones with tips half the width of the average ballpoint. They started importing their own in 2004 and turned their passion into a business, pooling $9,000 in [...]
Cross-training to Keep Your Company on Top
BusinessWeek: As a business owner, you know about every part of your business. When your business was fairly small, you did all or some of everything. As you grew your business, you handed off specific tasks, such as cad-cam work, programming, sales, or reception. However, as a small business, your company may need more skills [...]
Make Money Without Really Trying
Business 2.0: When word of a whites-only scholarship at Boston University hit the media last fall–drawing coverage from bloggers and biggies like ABC alike–Daniel Kovach smelled opportunity. His goal: to boost traffic to the website he runs, Scholarships Around the US. So he paid a writer to crank out “The White Man’s Guide to Getting [...]
Entrepreneur: For business owners, the $1.6 trillion “Mommy Market” is well worth pursuing. In the book “Trillion Dollar Moms”, Maria Bailey and Bonnie Ulman teach you how to take advantage of this lucrative market. They describe three generations of moms: baby boomer moms, Gen X moms and Millennial new moms. If your company is still [...]
Yahoo Finance: Ryan Mongan’s role model is Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Group fame — not so much for his rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, but for his love of starting a seemingly endless string of businesses. Since launching his first business, Speck Design, 11 years ago, Mongan and his business partner have founded Speck Products, [...]
