Archive for May 25th, 2007
Balancing Children And A Home Business
Black Enterprise: Many entrepreneurs set up shop at home so they can spend more time with their children. But combining kids and a home business is not easy. Here are some ways to make the balancing act easier: Get your kids involved. If your kids are interrupting your work every 10 minutes, give them a [...]
Jamaica Plain Gazette: White batiqued dragonflies dance across bursts of orange-yellow sky. A blue lizard cheerfully crawls across a geometric landscape. Not only do these lively patterns promise to adorn babies and toddlers in colorful garb, these organic cotton clothes will make the environmentally conscious parent proud. According to the store’s owner, Jamaica Plain resident [...]
The (Less) Lonely Life Of The Road Warrior
Business 2.0 Magazine: Business travel has gone Web 2.0. Frequent fliers can now build their Rolodexes electronically by searching for other travelers’ profiles and then arranging to meet contacts on a flight, at a golf course, or over dinner. Here’s a look at a new breed of sites aiming to make every part of your [...]
Chicago Entrepreneur Is Reinventing Airport Parking
FSB Magazine: The off-airport parking industry normally attracts little attention from venture capitalists or business journalists. What’s sexy, after all, about running vast garages perfumed by jet fuel? Plenty, if you’re Martin Nesbitt, founder and CEO of the Parking Spot. The Chicago-based company is best known for its whimsical yellow-and-black-spotted shuttle buses and employee uniforms. [...]
Fortune: Here is a startling bit of arithmetic: If you get and send 100 e-mails a day, that adds up to 24,000 messages annually, on which you probably spend an average of 100 workdays. If you could manage to reduce the amount of e-mail you send and receive by 20%, you’d free up 20 workdays [...]
Entrepreneur Finds Success With Salsa
Post-Tribune: Ferret hair may not sound like it’s meant for dipping. But it sure makes for some good salsa. Ten years ago, Dan and Sally Homner created Hair of the Ferret Gourmet Salsa in their Crown Point basement, after 10 year of making batches of the condiment for friends and family. No ferrets are harmed [...]
mybusinessmag: If you’re ready to relieve stress and increase productivity by adding a little humor to your workplace, Shannon McDevitt, founder of Just Humor Me, a company that offers custom-designed interactive programs and games to help businesses develop and maintain fun and civility in the workplace suggests starting with these tips: Be sincere. You can’t [...]
