Archive for June 21st, 2007
Keeping A Home And Home Office
Smart Money: For many entrepreneurs, the decision to start a home-based business has to do with family. Sticking close to home, they reason, will keep them connected to children while providing extra income for the household. The problem? Simultaneously keeping up with the demands of children and a small business can be taxing, often making [...]
The Star-Ledger: Tami Covington makes her living answering the telephone. Perhaps she’s made your airplane reservation or helped send flowers to your mom. But instead of working in a cubicle in a call center on the highway, Covington answers the phone from the comfort of her Middletown home. Her flexible schedule is geared to her [...]
Julia Roberts Was Recently Baby Swagged With Work-At-Home Mom Products
PR Web: New celebrity mom, Julia Roberts, had been sent a one of a kind Baby Swags gift basket which contained pregnancy wear, infant clothing and many more work-at-home, mom-made or mom inspired products, all of which were essential to the remaining days of her pregnancy and the first days of her new baby’s life. [...]
Financial Planner And Mom Doles Outs Common Sense Advice On Money
Lower Hudson Online: Gayle S. Lob, a certified financial planner who lives in New Rochelle and owns Gayle Lob Financial Strategies in White Plains, offers her clients a healthy dose of common sense gleaned from the raising of her own children, who are now adults. Her goal? Help parents keep their financial sanity and raise [...]
The Roanoke Times: The final bell has rung and school is out. Let the fun begin. Well, the camps and the baby sitters and the dropping off and picking up, and the pool membership and … you get the point. It’s something children often don’t understand: Their elaborate summer plans can be a headache for [...]
OCZ Ultra-Slim Mini-Kart 2GB Flash Drive
Business 2.0 Magazine: Imagine a computer shrunk to almost the size of a postage stamp. Well, I have one in the form of the Mini-Kart flash drive. Check out what this superslim device can do: No matter where I am, I can access my entire desktop on any computer (as proven on a recent trip [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine: I work in the publishing business, so it’s no surprise that I love books. Last year, to allow me to bring more with me on business trips, I bought Sony’s portable reader, which can store up to 80 books downloaded from a catalog of 13,500 titles. Slightly smaller than a paperback, the [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine: James Bond would love the Matias. The aluminum skin gleams like an Aston Martin and can protect your laptop as well as anything devised by Q. Customizable padding offers a snug fit for slim notebooks. Three deep bellows pockets house basic peripherals, and three separate pockets support file folders. Locking latches, which [...]
Keeping Antiquated Products Alive
Entrepreneur: The Columbus Washboard Company has the washboard market virtually all to itself. Only two other such businesses in the world exist, and the Columbus Washboard Company is the only washboard-making enterprise based in the U.S. The business has been around since 1895 when Frederic Martin Sr. started building washboards in his backyard and selling [...]
Chicago Academy Aims To Train New Manufacturing Elite
Fortune Small Business: Joan Wrenn’s company, Hudson Precision Products, has seen many changes in its 100-plus years. Hudson started out making telegraph equipment and now churns out finger-tip-sized parts for iPod speakers. But Wrenn can’t find enough skilled workers. That’s why she’s excited about Austin Polytechnical Academy, a new public high school that is set [...]
Money Magazine: Michael Mischer has been racing against high fixed costs from Day One. In 2004 he opened a store to sell chocolates he makes, and that 1,700-square-foot space, Michael Mischer Chocolates, came with an unavoidable rental price tag of $2,800 a month. That gave him 2,800 reasons to keep the rest of his expenses [...]
7 Great Ways To Finance A Startup
FSB Magazine: 1. Bootstrapping. “Bootstrapping means using whatever resources you have on hand to help you get your business to the next level. 2. Friends and family. Entrepreneurs also raise money from relatives, colleagues and other people they know well. 3. Banks. A long shot because banks typically will only consider companies that have been [...]
USA Today: Gas prices have edged down recently. But at a national average $3.14 a gallon, they’re still 27 cents higher than a year ago. No wonder higher energy costs are giving small businesses fits, according to a new survey out by Visa USA. “While small businesses remain relatively bullish about revenue growth, increasing expenditures [...]
