Archive for July 18th, 2007
My Busy Days Launches New Site For Moms
EarthTimes.org: My Busy Days (MBD), the comprehensive “get out of the house!” guide for moms with kids ages 0-5, announced the launch of a website rich with activities, places to go and things to do in Orange County. My Busy Days started as a personal resource for stay at home mom, Karen, to keep track [...]
Amy's Office Celebrates 5th Year In Business
Promotion World: Many small businesses fail within the first five years. According to a recent study done by the Small Business Administration, two-thirds of new employer establishments survive at least two years, and 44 percent survive at least four years. Amy L. Goble, Virtual Assistant and entrepreneur has successfully reached the five year milestone. Goble [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine: Wayne’s World, it’s not. The Web TV series Diggnation draws hundreds of thousands of viewers. It has Fortune 500 corporate sponsors, and its two young stars are among the brightest in the tech firmament. Still, the production values are more in line with Wayne and Garth than they are with, say, The [...]
Unusual Business Ideas That Work: Eric Nakagawa, a software developer in Hawaii, posted a single photo of a fat, smiling cat he found on the Internet, with the caption, “I can has cheezburger?” in January, 2007, at a Web site he created. It was supposed to be a joke. Soon after he posted a few [...]
Mom, Entrepreneur, And Inspiration
StarTribune.com: Until Saturday, nothing, but nothing, could stop the indefatigable force that was Dorothy Dolphin. A hardscrabble upbringing during the Great Depression, the sudden death of her young husband, the glass ceiling for women in the mid-20th-century business world — she overcame them all during her 87 years. “Her energy level was amazing,” said her [...]
Seventh Shot Success For Entrepreneur
Baltimore Sun: Jason Pappas, 39, is co-founder/CEO of EntreQuest, a Baltimore-based sales consulting company. He grew up in North Baltimore, went to Gilman School, Yale University and the University of Maryland School of Law. However, Pappas decided he wasn’t a lawyer but rather a “serial entrepreneur.” In his own quest to create a successful business, [...]
Orange County Register: Small businesses exist because big corporations ignore whole groups of customers. Successful small-business owners recognize this fact and focus like a laser on one specific underserved or purposely ignored group. The unsuccessful ones try to be all things to all markets. So says marketing expert and author John Bradley Jackson. Jackson, owner [...]
CharlotteObserver.com: Brian Turkalo quit a stable, well-paying job as a corporate salesman to deal with his cat’s poop full time — and he couldn’t be happier. He is the inventor of LitterWorks, an automated system for getting rid of your feline’s feces without needing to scoop them up every other day. Manufactured in Matthews, LitterWorks [...]
