Archive for June 7th, 2007
Stress Makeover For Mom With At-Home Business
CNN.com: For Amy Charlson of Deerfield, Illinois — mother of Benjamin, 5, and Elana, 3 — it’s all about balance. She runs a part-time graphic-design business out of her basement. She hires a sitter only one day a week, so she ends up wrapping work around her kids’ schedules. On paper, this might seem doable, [...]
New Home Business Website For Social Networking
Look out WAH moms, you’re in for a new way of networking. It is budget friendly too, like free tends to be. This site offers a variety of things that are important to the work-at-home mom that is looking to start getting her business off the ground. This won’t just benefit work-at-home mom’s though. This [...]
Beverage Companies To Reduce Water Usage
Entrepreneur: Coke will reduce the amount of water that goes into making its drinks. Last year, its bottlers used 290 billion liters of water in beverage production–leading one plant in southern India to wear out its welcome when the government accused Coke of drying up the water supply. More than half of the water Coke [...]
Entrepreneur: Recently, we told you about the opportunity to buy your own band on eBay. Well, if that’s not your thing, how about buying a business on eBay instead? Or selling the one you have? Though eBay is best known for the selling of consumer goods, like clothing or concert tickets, entrepreneurs are flocking to [...]
Give ‘Em Something To Talk About
Fast Company: If you go to Portland, Oregon, everyone wants to talk about Voodoo Doughnut. They talk about the caffeinated doughnut. Or the chocolate-glazed chocolate doughnut rolled in Cocoa Puffs cereal. All businesses today crave the credibility, not to mention the free advertising, that comes from word of mouth. As such marketing matures into its [...]
Entrepreneur Judges ‘American Inventor’
Tampa Tribune: Crushing a dream was the hardest part for Sara Blakely. Having turned her own idea into a lucrative product, she found it difficult to dash the hopes of entrepreneurial wanna-bes. The inventor of Spanx body shapers has joined the judges’ panel for the second season of “American Inventor.” It debuted at 9pm Wednesday [...]
Entrepreneur Keeps Looking For Ideas
Unusual Business Ideas That Work: Sam Yagan’s first successful business idea came to him in the middle of an all-nighter during his senior year at Harvard. His paper on Hamlet was due the next day, and he was kicking himself for not buying the CliffsNotes version of the play before the bookstore closed. “Why can’t [...]
