Archive for July 31st, 2007
Big Business While Raising 5 Kids
First Coast News: More and more women are starting their own businesses. It’s a trend that’s happening worldwide including here on the First Coast. One local woman entrepreneur has a successful wealth management business in a male dominated industry. Kristin McLaughlan is a mom who does it all. She has five children and she runs [...]
Mom Cuts Down On Germs In Public Restrooms
KCBD: One local mom was looking for ways to protect her kids from germs when they had to “go” away from home, but that wasn’t enough. Her germ-free quest has become a business. It started with a simple problem of when kids “Gotta go.” “They would have to grab hold of the toilet seat. They [...]
Carmi Woman Expands Her Business
The Carmi Times: Robin Nichols, a rural Carmi wife, mother and businesswoman, expanded her business recently into a building at 307 W. Kerney St. in Carmi after the business experienced dramatic growth over the last two years by offering a wide range of embroidery, silk-screen and sign services. The former Robin Miller grew up the [...]
Decorative Lighting Trend Electrifies Woman's Online Business
Daily Herald: While sitting on her deck one evening with her husband, Chris Marchewka envisioned a strand of lights to brighten things up. The idea for a business selling decorative lights sparked soon after. She had a difficult time finding exactly what she wanted. Three years ago, Marchewka launched Oogalights.com to sell party and decorative [...]
Coastal Sales Center Helps Single SAHM Mom
EWorldWire: There are a few Internet small business opportunities out there that are worth the time and money required to invest. Recently, Brenda Rasa, a 43 year-old single mom has found the road to financial freedom with a great product and unique business model. That product is Coastal Vacations, a lifetime discount vacation membership, and [...]
Workshop: How To Sell & Value A Small Business
WORKSHOP TITLE: How To Sell & Value A Small Business WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:70% of all California small and mid-sized businesses never sell when they are put on the market. Selling a business is not like selling a piece of real estate or any other type of asset. This webinar is designed for California small and mid-sized [...]
How to Avoid Being Audited When You’re Self Employed
The following is a guest post from Jimmy Atkinson of Ask the Advisor, where it was originally published. The IRS states that most people who are picked for audits are selected by computer analysis, an entirely random affair. The number of audits is low, and your chances of an audit are actually slim. Plus, a [...]
Why Isn’t the Video Resume More Popular?
I’ve always thought that this was a fantastic idea. What’s wrong with it? Freakonomics Blog: Why, in a world of excellent, cheap, and fast technology, hasn’t the video resume become more popular? It’s certainly not unheard-of, and maybe one infamously over-the-top video resume scared some people off. But I am still surprised that we are [...]
Top 25 Alternatives To Venture Capital
BusinessFund.com: Angels Private Placement Initial Public Offering Bootstrap Financing Fund From Operations Licensing Launch Customers Vendor Financing Sweat Equity Self Funding SBA Loans SBIR and STTR Programs State Funding Home Equity Loans Community Banks Microloans Finance Debt Silent Partner Friends Family Form A Strategic Alliance Sell Some Assets Business Lines of Credit Personal Credit Cards [...]
Attention: Door to door solictors My wife just slammed the door in the face of an another unsuspecting salesman because he asked “Are your parent’s home?” Photo by massdistraction.
Menu Master Launches National Expansion Program
Menu Master, one of the largest providers of free menus and placemats to restaurants, has finalized its national expansion plans and will offer franchises across America. Founded in 1995, the Pennsylvania-based company began casually offering franchises last year. With franchises now in three states, the goal is to have 25 franchises within four years. “Menu [...]
Searching for Clients From Above
Wall Street Journal: When a customer recently inquired about roofing five apartment buildings in Grass Valley, Calif., Jay Saber didn’t bother to jump in his truck to drive out and take measurements. Mr. Saber, the owner of Saber Roofing Inc. in Redwood City, Calif., instead punched the addresses into Google Inc.’s free Earth software to [...]
CNet: GPS on a watch? Been there, done that. Just check out Timex and Suunto with their extensive stable of GPS watches. Casio used to have one, but this was apparently discontinued. However, like the enigmatic James Bond, the Japanese never say die. So back to the drawing board Casio went, and the result was [...]
PopGadget: If you, or more likely, your parents, are having trouble reading the computer keyboard, get one of these Large Print Keyboards, which feature extra large keys and USB and PS2 connections. US $49.95. Photo by FirstStreetOnline.
Business Week: In 2005, Larry Andreini approached two entertainment producers about a possible television show, but their meeting didn’t lead to a TV hit. Instead, the pair gave Andreini the concept that would become his next business: Ridemakerz, a do-it-yourself custom model car retailer. At the time, the pair, Gillian MacKenzie and Jane Startz, had [...]
PopGadget: Looks like the convergence bug bit someone in the USB hub community. It’s too soon to tell, as the first shipments aren’t expected until mid-July, but so far being optimistic about a full recovery seems pretty futile. Obviously not content with creating a simple hub that adds another 4 USB 2.0 ports to a [...]
Making Money With Clever T-shirt
Gizmodo: Some clever Brits at the Harry Potter Plot Enlightenment Project have come up with a product that piggybacks on the fanaticism of the final Harry Potter book. They have produced a spoilsport T-Shirt that will make children cry and their parents call you every name under the sun. It contains spoilers from the final [...]
Inc.: With a lifelong interest in fashion, Alison Barnard used the skills she learned while attending Babson’s business school to start in-jean-ius, her own retail store, centered around the one must-have clothing item for women: the perfect-fitting pair of jeans. Barnard stocks the store, which is located in Boston’s newest hip neighborhood, the North End, [...]
PopGadget: Balanced. Simple. Stunning. There’s nary another word needed to describe the 9-Volt light from designer Richard Lawson. Elegantly balanced against its power source, the 9-Volt light is an exact replica of a 9-Volt battery, but instead of a copper top, this ‘battery’ boasts high-powered LEDs to light up the night. A perfect replacement (or [...]
Ecommerce-Guide.com: eBay Performance! Selling Success With Market Research & Product Sourcing” is a clear, readable, almost fool-proof guide to discovering what sells on eBay, obtaining viable product and selling it in an effective way. The authors are experts in their fields: Robin Cowie is president of WorldWidebrands, for years an eBay licensed provider of wholesale [...]
Business Travelers Feel Less Safe
Inc.: Facing everything from political coups to rocket attacks, many business travelers feel employers aren’t doing enough to protect them, a recent survey found. Of more than 1,000 business travelers polled, nearly half said they felt the world was becoming a more dangerous place for business travel. Yet, 52 percent said they aren’t provided a [...]
