Archive for April 2007
Yahoo Finance: KieAnn Brownell considers herself a serial entrepreneur, which means she’s always on the lookout for new business ideas. After running her family’s wholesale floor-covering business, she decided the time was right to transition from carpets to cakes. After learning that more than 700,000 people celebrate a birthday every single day, Brownell set up [...]
A Work At Home Mom Success Story
Best Syndication: A Mom starting a work at home during baby’s first year could find herself easily irritable. Babies are still very exigent and not quite independent from their principal care giver at such young age. I would suggest postponing working at home until your baby is at least fourteen month-old if the family can [...]
Vista Womans Whimsical Crafts Catch Attention Of Martha Stuart
North County Times: When Dawn Buettner Huntington’s son Robbie was born three years ago, the Vista crafter says she wanted to decorate his nursery with something different. She figured other people would appreciate something different, too, she said. A flying elephant, pig, rabbit, giraffe and cat inhabiting a bog filled with bamboo and reeds and [...]
Mozilla & eBay Collaborate For Improved Auction Experience
The Mozilla Corporation and eBay International have announced a Mozilla Firefox partnership to “improve the online auction experience for people in France, Germany and the United Kingdom”. According to the press release, “Mozilla and eBay are collaborating on new technology and approaches to enable eBay users to stay up to date with their auctions more [...]
The Popes Vehicle on eBay Once Again.
The Pope Benedict XVI Mobile from record-breaking auction is back on the block for charity The car that drew international attention and broke eBay records with over 10 million visitors to its auction page in May 2005, is now going to be put back on the auction block by GoldenPalace.com, the winners of the now [...]
Des Moines Register: Baldes was 10 years into a career as a graphic designer, when she received a six-month break between projects. The mother of two took the time to mess with projects around the house. “I started recovering my kitchen chairs and my husband didn’t like the fabric,” she said. “I tried to bring [...]
The Popes Vehicle on eBay Once Again.
The Pope Benedict XVI Mobile from record-breaking auction is back on the block for charity The car that drew international attention and broke eBay records with over 10 million visitors to its auction page in May 2005, is now going to be put back on the auction block by GoldenPalace.com, the winners of the now [...]
Michigan Mom Earns Praise For Foray Into Vampire Land
The Pueblo Chieftain: The inspiration crystallized for Colleen Gleason during a ‘‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’’ marathon. If Buffy was the Chosen One for this generation, there’d been others before her, right? Say, during the 19th century? So, what would Buffy as a debutante death-dealer, Buffy in a bonnet, have been like? Since Gleason had already [...]
Currently 9% of US households now use a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephone service with figures predicted to rise rapidly, according to a survey. Cable operators are driving growth in the US residential Voice over Internet VoIP telephone market, according to market research company In-Stat. More than 10.6 million US households now have at [...]
eBay Sellers Polled on Shipping Rate Increases
Virtually all U.S. eBay and online sellers will be affected by upcoming changes to the postal rates. On March 19, 2007, the Governors of the United States Postal Service approved rate changes effective May 14, 2007: http://www.usps.com/ratecase/welcome.htm Things are still a bit in flux for some rates, however. According to MultichannelMerchant.com, the USPS Board of [...]
PayPal New Product Aimed At Small Business
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 shoppers choose [...]
Daytona Beach News-Journal: Jim Cairns was a boy, he invented a way to hang pictures in his room without making the holes in the wall that so irritated his mother. He mixed iron powder with paint and spread it on the walls, then he put magnets on his pictures and stuck them to the iron [...]
BrandWeek.com: Sara Lee plans to target baby boomers who are becoming empty nesters with a line of frozen pies called Simple Sweets. The pies are about six inches in diameter and are intended to cut down or eliminate leftovers. Empty nesters “told us they love everything about the pie experience [except] the leftovers.” Empty nesters [...]
Dad-Inventor Creates New Baby Care Product
eMediaWire: When a new baby arrives, mom and dad’s brains seem to turn to mush; lack of sleep makes it challenging to remember the simplest things. Greg Sheldon learned this two years ago when he and his wife Kris became parents for the first time. He found that they were asking each other the same [...]
11-Year-Old Entrepreneur Has Projects Cooking
Sheboygan Press: It all started when Brook Bignell was 9 years old. Brook, now 11, joined her mother, Joan, in her fudge-making endeavor — Joanie’s Home Fudge & Sweets — fulfilling her own desire to learn about running a business. “I needed someone to help me with my business and it was a way I [...]
Two Reasons People Say No To Your Idea
Seth Godin: The two reasons people say no to your idea: “It’s been done before” “It’s never been done before” Even though neither one is truthful, accurate or useful, you need to be prepared for both. Photo by brokenarts.
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at BusinessPundit.
