Archive for July 19th, 2007
Getting The Most From Teleseminars
The Conservative Voice: Teleseminars are a great way to learn from experts without leaving the comfort of your home. No travel expenses, jet lag or cafeteria food to deal with makes them the perfect way for work-at-home moms to expand their business knowledge and skills. More and more experts and authors are offering teleseminars on [...]
Vintage Womens Fashion Success For Single Mom
Oroville Mercury Register: A So Cal, self-labeled “Valley Girl” by birth, Hampton found herself living in Louisiana during the late ’90s. After about five years in Dixieland she relocated to the city of gold. “I liked Louisiana,” Hampton said. “It was so beautiful there and I enjoyed the culture, but what I liked about Oroville [...]
The Columbus Dispatch: After a frustrating trip to the grocery store trying to shop for food, juggle coupons, look at the weekly specials and feed her infant, Laura Hamrick thought there had to be a better way for moms to get in and out of a store without going crazy. Her solution? Create a product [...]
Grandfather Finds Calling Collecting Menus
NewsDay: Daniel Rayas moved to New York in January from El Paso, Texas, to care for his newborn granddaughter, Eva Lucia. But he needed a job to pay his room and board, one flexible enough to allow for daily diaper-changing duty. The unlikely solution: collecting take-out menus. Allmenus.com, an online yellow pages for restaurants, sent [...]
Inc.: Jim Newton, 44, previously ran Laurel Systems, a user interface graphics company. He subsequently taught a metal shop class at the College of San Mateo. When he stopped teaching, however, he no longer had access to the campus lathe. So he got the idea for TechShop. TechShop is a chain of workshops that cater [...]
Biz Owners Urged to Watch Own Finances
The Associated Press: When a business is in its first years of existence, it’s very tempting for an entrepreneur to put every possible cent toward building the company, often at the expense of a personal financial portfolio. Years later, many owners are still neglecting their own finances, believing the investment they’ve made in a now-successful [...]
CNet: Here’s a nifty device that makes life a lot easier for execs who spend more time in the air than on the ground. Even those of us who travel on the occasional job junket will have gone through the hassle of digging out our notebook, chucking this into the security bin to be scanned [...]
CNet: For those who eat while they surf, now you can clean your sticky mouse. We won’t advise you to substitute your rubber ducky for this, though, when you next take a bath. The USB-powered optical mouse is only water-resistant. Else you’ll have a drowning rat. US $30. Photo by Belkin.
WKRN.com: A new invention is helping to keep police officers cooler during the hot summer months. Many officers wear between 20 and 40 pounds of gear when they’re out on patrol and during the hot days of summer, it can be particularly uncomfortable and hot. One officer explains what it’s like to carry the weight [...]
No Escaping Social Networks, Even If You’re Dead
The Globe And Mail: For an example of why social networking might not be the perfect idea for every website, let’s first look at the social network for dead people. Respectance.com marks the latest attempt to create a workable website for online memorials. The goal is to create a site where people can post online [...]
CNet: Let it not be said that geeks don’t have a sense of furniture. Here’s one that tops other versions in luxury and comfort. Snowcrash has put out a top-end recliner that’s so good, it’s baaad. Yeah. Being Swedish in pedigree, you can expect ergonomic lines, funky European aesthetics and quality finish. According to the [...]
11-Year-Old Entrepreneur Running Hair Biz
NowPublic.com: Her name is Leanna Archer. At the age of 4 , after she was tested for Pre K, her parents were told that it would be a good idea to take to a gifted center to get tested because she was way too advanced for her age but we didn’t take it seriously. At [...]
