Archive for September 5th, 2007
Mompreneurs Design Pretty Things For New Moms
The Vancouver Sun: Goober Baby has conquered Canada and made inroads in Europe. Next stop: the United States. Vancouver moms Melissa Krezanski and Jennifer Bogart will be in Las Vegas this weekend to promote their home-based business at the ABC Kids Expo, the leading trade show for the “juvenile products” industry. They’ve already won the [...]
Internet Spurs Cloth Diaper Comeback
Savanna Morning News: Cloth diapers used to disgust Faye Butler. “My impression of cloth diapers was always a faint memory of plain white flat cotton cloths and hot vinyl Gerber pants,” Butler said. “And that you were supposed to dunk a cloth diaper in the toilet. Who wants to do that?” Three children later, the [...]
BusinessMom.net For Sale, Plus an Interview
Bunmi Zalob is selling BusinessMom.net on eBay. The current bid is $1,025.00. You can access the auction here: ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?item=140152860786. I recently had a chance to ask Bunmi a few questions about the site. What is BusinessMom.net? BusinessMom.net is the largest social networking site just for mom (and dad) business owners. The site consists of franchisees, [...]
Where Can You Find Guys Online?
eMarketer: U.S. men age 18 to 34 have always been an elusive target for marketers, and one they pay dearly to hit — think of the ever-rising cost of Super Bowl spots. eMarketer estimates that the segment now comprises 27% of the total male Internet user population, and the percentage is growing. Whether at home, [...]
Dan Portnoy wanted to make a movie. So, instead of spending his days dreaming about what it would be like to be a big-time Hollywood director, or studying the minutia of filmmaking and watching movies in his basement, he made one. And it’s good. Plus, as you’ll read in my interview, it has an inexpensive [...]
Sharper Image: To help keep things from being lost or stolen, attach mini “homing” tags (3 included) to elusive objects that seem to wander off by themselves – keys, glass cases, favorite toys, mobiles, remotes, purses, even pets! In “Locate” mode, if a tagged item is misplaced, the base unit with directional display will guide [...]
Social Networks: Not Just Kid Stuff Anymore
Kiplinger: The search for business contacts is fast moving online. Social networks — long the domain of youngsters interacting with their friends — are increasingly attracting the corporate set on the hunt for sales leads, new hires, new jobs, vendors, contractors and other contacts. For business users, the most popular site these days is LinkedIn, [...]
Unusual Business Ideas That Work: Washington, D.C.-based PaceTat offers on-skin advertising in the form of pacing guides. Pacing guides are used by runners in marathons and races to help them maintain the speed needed to finish a race within their goal time. Existing solutions include paper or plastic bracelets, which have a tendency to chafe [...]
Arthur Jones Revolutionized Exercise Industry
Washington Post: Arthur Jones, 80, the swashbuckling inventor of Nautilus exercise equipment, which revolutionized strength training by replacing the dead weight of barbells with a variable resistance technique, died Aug. 28 at his home in Ocala, Fla. No cause of death was reported. Gruff and profane, Jones did not fit the image of the creator [...]
Winner of the First Signed Copy of The 4-Hour Workweek
The Labor Day holiday threw me for a loop when it came to picking a winner. But after much randomizing, and accounting for stumbles and comments, we have a winner for our first giveaway. The winner is Oleg Korneitchouk of Webmaster Toolbox. For having his entry selected at random from all of the comments and [...]
New Perception: For those who keep scouring the Internet looking for ways of become rich beyond belief (may be an exaggeration), this will be either interesting or infuriating. Or maybe a combination of both. Basically, one clever guy was able to make an incredible profit, $500,000, on eBay by buying a rare item for a [...]
