Archive for June 11th, 2007
Learning & Life Highlights Top Jobs For Stay-At-Home Moms
eMediaWire: Moms who want to use their professional skills to start a home business can get career recommendations from several new articles from LearningAndLife.com. Stay-at-home moms’ activities are actually worth salaries of six figures, a recent study shows. LearningAndLife.com features career tips, educational advice and school listings to help moms recognize the professional skills they [...]
Trigger Memory Systems Gets National Distributor
EastOregonian.com: Three mothers started an education-based home business four years ago, and now it’s big enough they’ve garnered a national distributor. Jennie von Eggers and Marillee Flanagan of Pendleton and Dena Wood of Waitsburg, Wash., run an education-based publishing company called Trigger Memory Systems. The company, now its fourth year, grew out of the women’s [...]
Attention Work-At-Home Moms: Become A Work-At-Home Webmaster
WebWire: Employment ToolKit.com launches its co-branded web hosting for work-at-home professionals seeking to supplement their income by operating their own online business. Setting up an online business can be a daunting task – the obstacles involved in setting up a profitable web site can seem insurmountable. The actuality is that taking advantage of Employment ToolKit’s [...]
A JEWELLERY company on eBay that allegedly bid on its own auctions to illegally drive up prices by as much as 20 per cent agreed to pay $475,000 in restitution and penalties, the New York state attorney general’s office said. Ezra Dweck and employees of his company, EMH Group, placed more than 232,000 such bids [...]
Sharper Image: Imagine flying like a superhero or floating like an Astronaut. Experience true weightlessness the same way NASA trains its astronauts, in a special Zero-G aircraft. The “G-Force One” flight lasts about 90 minutes and features 15 parabolic maneuvers. Everyone celebrates with a back-to-Earth “re-gravitation” party — there are toasts, awards and mementos that [...]
gizmodo: When I first saw this Ring Mouse, I thought to myself, “Great, another stupid gadget from the far east that is an opportunity for me to shoot fish in a barrel and make some jokes.” That’s what I think to myself before a lot of posts, but something gave me pause this time. Am [...]
Sharper Image: Lifetime lost luggage retrieval service reunites you with your bag if found by a third party. (Register online.) CE And EMC approved. Swiss Armyâ„¢ Brand products have established a reputation in more than 100 countries for unmatched precision, quality, function and value. This reputation dates all the way back to 1891, when the [...]
Seattle Quenches A Niche In The Soda Market
KING5.com: Coca Cola and Pepsi take note: Seattle is about to give you a run for your money. a 2-year-old Seattle company called DRY Soda Co. is appearing in retailers and restaurants throughout the west coast, with plans to expand nationwide by the end of 2008. DRY Soda Co., which markets sophisticated, alcohol-free drinks that [...]
Niche Marketers Get Big Returns Online
DMNews: When NBC’s Saturday Night Live ran a sketch titled “The Scotch Boutique� about a specialty store that sold only scotch tape, it was just a joke. But e-commerce specialists at yesterday’s Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition may have had the last laugh. “The Internet has turned this skit on its head, “ said Doug [...]
Weekend Entrepreneur: Gwen Yuffa was one of 8 finalists who competed with more than 6,000 people and appeared on Oprah’s Next Big Idea show. As the inventor of the Color Bug, Gwen devotes the majority of her time to her hubby and their two daughters. Let’s take a look at how she got the ball [...]
The Detroit News: The age-old advice to would-be entrepreneurs is: Find a need and fill it. For Paula Milgrom, it’s a slightly different case: Find a need and cover it. The 54-year-old West Bloomfield woman is the inventor and sole proprietor behind RxPJs, a special line of full-length zippered robes patients can wear over flimsy [...]
Key To Trade Shows Is Followup
Rhonda Abrams at Gannett News Service: I just returned from the biggest trade show of the year at which my company exhibits. It was a great show, but we now have very tired feet and a huge collection of business cards from people we met. Now the work really starts. According to trade show industry [...]
