Archive for June 2007
Did You Stand in Line For an iPhone?
Did you stand in line to buy an iPhone? I outsourced it, and hired someone to stand in my place. No. Yes. I bought one online. Who needs an iPhone? View Results
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Contra Costa Times: The moment I met her, I knew she was a Minnesotan. Her crisp white apron, the way she came out on the porch to greet me for lunch — that’s so Midwestern. Kim Cole lives in Redwood Heights today, but her cooking career goes back to those childhood days in Marshall. “Growing [...]
OCRegister: Carol Barge, a 52-year-old mother of two grown children, has spent the past three years (and several hundred thousand dollars) painstakingly researching and perfecting a female undergarment she thinks has the potential to be huge seller. Barge – a former PTA mom and college graduate who has a resume that includes careers in sales [...]
Baby Swags Announces The 2007 Work-At-Home Mompreneur 'Must Have' Products
PR Web: Baby Swags prides itself on finding the best work at home mom products that reflect quality, functionality, practicality yet maintain a fun, stylish and trendy flair to them. Baby Swags is proud to promote the following products as the 2007 Must Have’s for all new and soon to be moms: BabyKakesink specializes in [...]
Entrepreneur Targets Lane Hogs
Bangor Daily News: Entrepreneur J.A. Tosti created Left Lane Drivers of America as a diverse, very loosely affiliated group of drivers who share the common objective of reducing the Left Lane congestion on our freeways and multi-lane highways by politely encouraging slow drivers to move over. In order to actually help slower drivers move right, [...]
SmartMoney: For home-based entrepreneurs, the line between work and personal life is often blurred. Debbie Wiener started an interior-design firm out of her Silver Spring, Md., home eight years ago, and the breakdown in boundaries is now testing her limits. With two full-time employees and contractors in and out all day, finding private time just [...]
The Durham News: The evening was to be a launch, of sorts. The Durham Bulls were opening an eight-game home stand June 14. What better way to promote the wind-in-your-face fun of a pedicab ride than offering free pregame rides from the parking lot to the ballpark? “A limited audience, I guess, ” Dana Di [...]
Congress Insists on Easy-to-Understand Guides for Small Biz
Kiplinger: Small firms won’t have to hire lawyers as often to translate federal regulations that govern what businesses can and can’t do. A new law adds teeth to Clinton-era legislation requiring federal regulatory agencies to publish compliance guides for all new rules having a significant economic impact on small firms. Lawmakers acted because they believe [...]
Bizy Mom's Offers Tutoring Career Kit To Moms
PR Urgent News: Bizymoms.com was created in 1997 by Liz Folger, a work-at-home-mom expert and author of the book, “The Stay-at-Home Mom’s Guide To Making Money From Home.” Bizymoms has grown tremendously over the years, and now more than 2.5 million visitors come to www.bizymoms.com every month, each with a work-at-home dream. Bizymoms Premium “TutorMonster” [...]
Mom Of 3 Helps Create New Memory Supplement
MarketWire: A local mother of three fed-up with her poor memory due to the overload of raising three young children and running a business has helped develop a new memory enhancement supplement that has been showing promise for those looking for relief from typical forgetfulness. Described as an Advanced Memory Enhancement Supplement, Ultra Focus provides [...]
Tips For Starting A Home-Based Business
SeattlePI.com: It was on the sidelines of one of Danni’s soccer games that Holt was inspired to start the business that now allows her to make breakfast for her daughter and drive her to school. At the matches, Lindsay and her husband Tate noticed mothers complaining about having to run back home to fetch jerseys, [...]
Internet Marketer And SAHM Offers Advertising Tips In New E-Book
PRWeb: Liz Martinez, a stay at home mom for the last 3 years, has written and published her first e-book on Free Advertising. She has compiled a list of free advertising sources but she has also explained the best way to use those resources. Martinez says “A list of resources for free advertising isn’t worth [...]
Starscapes Free for Independence Day
Starscapes: For those that need more money or more time… Imagine winning a fun and profitable home based business program for yourself, valued at $5,000! And with it, you could be making up to $500, $1,000, and $1,500 a day! Every year for Independence Day/Week, STARSCAPES gives away two (2) complete $5,000 STARSCAPES® StarBiz Programs. [...]
Think Geek: The Kill-A-Watt allows you to connect your appliances and assess how efficient they are. A large LCD display counts consumption by the Kilowatt-hour, just like utility companies. You can figure out your electrical expenses by the hour, day, week, month, even an entire year. Monitor the quality of your power by displaying Voltage, [...]
Kiplinger: Increasing numbers of experienced, older workers and new retirees are thinking about delaying retirement or rejoining the workforce. But despite growing problems finding experienced help, employers see older workers as a mixed bag, according to a survey by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Over 80 percent of employers said older workers [...]
Doing Things The Old-Fashioned Way
Entrepreneur: As owners of MikWright Ltd., a Charlotte, North Carolina-based greeting card company, Tim Mikkelsen, 45, and Phyllis Wright-Herman, 44, employ a group of friends and neighbors to glue old family photos to off-size greeting cards. The duo then writes humorous, snarky captions for the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s-era pictures. Sounds like a simple, old-fashioned [...]
Entrepreneur: If you knew in advance what the next must-have product or service was going to be, your entrepreneurial fortune would be made. But how can you tell where to place your bet? In “Coolhunting”, innovation experts Peter Gloor and Scott Cooper offer a refrigerated warehouse worth of tricks and tools for identifying what’s cool [...]
How to Turn Your Annual Income into Monthly Income Fast with Affiliate Network Marketing
Guest post by Eugenia Wan The Law of Attraction states that you can have, be, and do whatever you want in life as soon as you master the science of getting rich. As we all live within one connected Universal Energy Field, we can achieve anything we want by aligning ourselves in harmony with Infinite [...]
Use Video To Promote Your Small Biz
SmallBizSurvival: Any small business could use simple online videos for promotion. Video builds relationships and can be very persuasive. You can make simple videos with just your digital camera and some free software. Need some inspiration for how to use it? Have a tourism business? Shoot some video of your area attractions. Do you create [...]
Think Geek: Everybody gets those annoying phone calls. The kind where you sigh heavily, roll your eyes, and make those annoying “blah-dee-blah” hand gestures like some demented muppet that won’t shut up… Believe me, we get those calls, too. We feel your pain. Luckily, we have an awesome solution. The Excuse Box is no ordinary [...]
SurePayroll: A recent survey by online payroll service SurePayroll reveals that more than 80 percent of small business owners believe e-mail is a key element in the success of their business. The survey also discovered that 62 percent of small business owners believe e-mail is equally effective as or more effective than in-person or phone [...]
For Expectant Moms By A Mom Who Knows
PR.com: A new online haven for mom’s everywhere officially launches today, Mom-To-Be Depot. Mom-To-Be Depot is a one-stop-shoppe for everything moms need before, during and after pregnancy, offering a multitude of product reviews, expert advice, and health and beauty guides – to name a few. “Mom-To-Be Depot came to fruition because of the experience I [...]
New Tempe Company Looking For Moms
AZCentral.com: A new call center that lets its agents work at their homes, and that is especially popular with stay-home moms, has opened in Tempe. LiveOps, based in Palo Alto, Calif., opened an office in Tempe and will help recruit more than 1,200 home-based agents living in the Southwest, said Pam Smith, vice president of [...]
Working From Home, Technically
ABC News: No commute, a more flexible schedule and answering conference calls in your favorite Scooby-Doo slippers — the advantages of the “home” part of a home office are not hard to imagine. It’s the “office” part that tends to be more troublesome. Here’s the stuff, and the help, every home office owner needs to [...]
Think Geek: The radio airwaves will never be safe again. The RadioSHARK 2 adds an AM/FM radio to any Mac or PC — but that’s just the beginning. The old RadioSHARK can record any AM or FM radio broadcast in real time. RadioSHARK 2 adds the same capability to Internet radio! You can also program [...]
SCORE Adds New Online Resources For Entrepreneurs
SCORE.org: SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business? announces three, new content areas of the SCORE Web site. These added sections offer valuable information, tips and interactive workshops to help small business owners achieve success. Technology for Your Business, developed by SCORE and HP, is a resource hub under SCORE’s How-To section that helps businesses take [...]
USA Today: Here’s a news-to-me reason for family-owned small businesses to invest in technology: It’s a good way to keep companies family-controlled, a new survey out today says. The Microsoft-sponsored survey of 252 business owners found that two-thirds “agreed that technology is a good way to attract younger generations into their companies.” Why? Younger people [...]
Think Geek: The Gorillapod firmly secures your compact digital camera to just about anything – anywhere and everywhere. Unlike traditional tripods the Gorillapod doesn’t require an elevated flat surface for you to take the perfect picture. The flexible joints allow you to rotate and bend 360º to form the perfect shape. This opens up a [...]
Entrepreneur Brings Love Of Game Online
Times Republican: Six years ago 37-year-old Chris Hungerford looked at the blank Web site of his newly acquired domain name with curiosity and a vague hope of combining his interest in business, a love for basketball and the opportunity-laden landscape of the World Wide Web. Now Hungerford collects online orders in a not quite finished [...]
Health Clubs Find Niche Catering To Seniors
Associated Press: Marshall Kahn attends a gym with yoga, tai chi and Pilates classes, weight training and treadmills. It also has a driving simulator, where members can keep their skills from deteriorating. The gym, Nifty After Fifty, is one of many fitness centers popping up around the country aimed at serving older clients. “I’m 80, [...]
Rhonda Abrams at Arizona Business Gazette: I want to enjoy my summer, spend time with family and friends, even take a personal vacation. And I want to run and grow my business. How do I juggle both at the same time? Managing summer is a dilemma many entrepreneurs face. The key is to find the [...]
The Eureka Reporter: When it comes to maternity clothing, Humboldt County has little to offer. While the area boasts many specialty women’s clothing shops, few cater to the small but ever-present expectant-mothers niche. In response, Humboldt County resident Holly Johnson has taken matters into her own hands. Johnson is the proud owner of Expectations, a [...]
Farmington Daily Times: Kathy Yates had spent 16 years at home, raising her daughter, when her world was turned upside down and she was forced to find work to help support her and daughter, Aubrey. “After 16 years as a stay-at-home mom, I found myself needing to make a living for myself and my daughter,” [...]
Outstanding Predictions From Experts
From Sowpub Forum “Man will never reach the moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.” – Dr. Lee DeForest, Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television. “The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.” – Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project Manhattan “There is no likelihood man can ever [...]
Camp Invention Encourages Creativity
Daily Press & Argus: Future scientists and inventors dropped marbles down water pipe insulation sleeves transformed into roller coasters, dodged acid rain on Planet Zack and assembled inventions at Hornung Elementary School. School is out, but Camp Invention took over the Genoa Township school and brought it to life with students scurrying from one project [...]
How To Keep Up Appearances While Working At Home
Telecommuting? Don’t want to be considered just another one of those lazy work at home people? It’s easy to start looking stupid while telecommuting. Here are ten tips to save face while working from home. Here’s how to keep up appearances. From the Bing Blog Hi there. Itâs Friday afternoon and I thought I would [...]
LifeHack: I want to talk about how you can fall asleep no matter where you are. This is useful for napping in airports, couches, or at your desk if need be. The trick is the use sleep MP3’s such as these. They are essentially MP3’s that play white noise for the duration of the nap, [...]
Entrepreneur Daily: Businesses who sell to Gen X and Gen Y may want to check out this sample from the Cassandra Report Vital Stats Issue. The lifestyle study identifies the spending patterns, online behavior and technology adoption of consumers ranging from 14 to 34 years of age based on a survey of 900 respondents that [...]
Money Magazine: Sandy Ip is still a little stunned at what hard work it is to build a business. She sounds almost apologetic as she tallies up her first jewelry line’s sales: $45,000 in eight months. “Not great, I know,” she says. Then again, founding a jewelry firm was not what she expected to do [...]
Mom’s Invention Keeps Pants In Place
The Journal News: Stylish women everywhere, take note: Leslie Wilkins has the cure for the fashion affliction known as “plumber’s butt.” Perhaps you’ve experienced this horror. Those low-cut pants seem OK when you leave the house, without a trace of underwear or tushie-cleavage visible. But by the day’s end, you’re doing the dreaded tug-and-pull, yanking [...]
Demand Spreads For Mom's Almond Butter
Sacbee.com: Jennifer Barney’s almond spread hit shelves in Fresno’s Whole Foods Market, Catalano’s Market and Sam’s Italian Deli & Market just about a year ago. Already, she’s expanded the geographic footprint for her Barney Butter to 15 chain stores in 50 markets. It’s sold in Draeger’s Markets in the Bay Area, Harvest Ranch stores in [...]
Making The Birth Less Of A Pain
Seattlepi.com: Like a lot of expectant parents, Kristina Peterson and Ian McAllister left nothing to chance. Their to-do list could have sent them scurrying all over town. Instead, they enjoyed one-stop shopping at Gracewinds Perinatal Services, whose personal, homey approach has earned a heap of awards for founder and CEO Christine Wallace. “I was finding [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine: Anyone who works long hours knows that eating can be all about convenience, not nutrition. My own diet used to consist of takeout, caffeine, and nonstop sugar, which meant I was always veering from jittery highs to foot-dragging lows. So I recently met with a nutritionist, who suggested Figamajigs as an antidote [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine: I used to jog the same route during my lunch break, which was predictable but terribly boring. On a shopping trip last year, I found the Nike iPod Sport Kit, which contains a wireless sensor, a receiver, and software that together track distances, times, pace, and calories burned. Unlike a standard pedometer, [...]
Niche Drinks Gain In U.S. Market
Reuters: Nine years ago, Seth Goldman walked into a Whole Foods Market Inc. store with an empty bottle bearing a mocked-up label and five thermoses of iced tea he brewed in his kitchen. He walked out with a purchase order for 15,000 bottles, the first step of a journey that has transformed him from the [...]
Brookstone: Six laptop tools that make every business trip more productive. Now you can set up an office in a hotel room, on a plane, or at the corner café. All accessories simply plug into the USB or other port on your laptop for instant use. An included four-port USB hub makes it easy to [...]
Entrepreneurs Keep Ponds Sparkling
Houston Chronicle: Houston is built on flat land where ponds can become algae-covered breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Or, with the right care and some dye, they can be crystal-blue lakes with flowers, fish and eye-grabbing fountains. For developers, the difference can mean big money. Waterfront lots are more expensive — so much more expensive that [...]
Entrepreneur Daily: A recent study by International Communications Research, commissioned by Pitney Bowes, found that consumers still prefer receiving promotional information and private communications the traditional way: delivered by the mailman. When surveyed, 45.3 percent of study respondents viewed delivered mail as less intrusive than e-mail, while 40.2 percent considered it more convenient and felt [...]
ECommerce-Guide: For online merchants who need to find items to sell, identifying reputable product sources is something that requires a lot of research. Here are some that you may want to check out. OneSource is run by WorldWide Brands, and for a registration fee, you gain access to its continually updated database of wholesalers, including [...]
