Archive for August 31st, 2007
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WAHM Finds Answers On Time Management
24-7 Press Release: For Renae Heikkila juggling a husband, 5 children, 2 dogs, 3 birds and her Coastal Vacations business was more than she could handle. She was making great money with her Coastal Vacations business, however, it was starting to feel “not worth it” when her management of time was out of control. “I [...]
"Hipee Baby" Is A Labor Of Love For Creative Mom
Roseville Press Tribune: When it comes to seemingly impossible twists, Ryanne Cruz knows how to transform them into something wonderfully unexpected. This was especially true when Cruz’s husband Myron’s sudden job transfer uprooted their young family from their Bay Area home to Roseville. Cruz, owner of Hipee Baby, a new tie-dyed baby clothing business, said [...]
More Moms Are Starting Businesses To Stay Home With Family
St. Cloud Times: Ranadene Tapio believes in signs. The Sauk Rapids woman should have noticed the emotional sign when she cried every day during her almost one-hour commute. She didn’t feel good about her job as an admissions director for an assisted-living home in Golden Valley because she wasn’t spending that time with her new [...]
Gadgetell: 8 full-fledged cameras from Olympus with great and cool features will be available soon. Keynote features include Digital Image Stabilization Edit (IS) and a Perfect Shot Preview mode. From the top of the list, the Olympus 790SW (an update of the 770SW if you will) is waterproof, shockproof, freeze proof, sand and dust proof, [...]
The Entrepreneur’s Marshmallow
VentureBeat: The Marshmallow Test, which was done back in the early 1960s by Walter Mischel with 400 four-year olds at Stanford University. Children were put in a room by themselves with a two-way mirror and filmed. On the table in the room was a marshmallow. The researcher then told each child that, “I’ve got to [...]
Credit Fallout Could Help Venture Capitalists
The New York Times: The sky is falling. The sky is falling. The ground is rising. Could the subprime problems that have fouled the public market be a mixed blessing for Silicon Valley’s high-technology investors? Highly out of favor in recent years, public offerings of technology start-ups are enjoying a mild resurgence. And some venture [...]
Entrepreneur Daily: A new study reveals that twentysomething women are closing the wage gap between men and women. In New York, Los Angeles and other metropolitan cities, women have actually forged ahead of men in salary earnings. In Dallas, full-time working women are making 120 percent of the average male salary. A close analysis shows [...]
Local6.com: A family in West Salem, Ohio, is using life-sized cardboard children placed near oncoming traffic to slow speeders in their neighborhood. Mike Wood and his wife said their homemade cutout children make them feel uneasy at times because they look so real but said they force motorists to slow down. “First when (motorists) saw [...]
Kiplinger: Looking to increase sales? Encourage “brand sirens” to sing your product’s praises online in blogs, on social networking sites, your own Web site’s comment section and other Internet locations. Favorable word-of-mouth advertising is a proven sales booster, of course, and the Web can spread the word to millions of potential customers. OK, so what [...]
