Archive for September 6th, 2007
Burnaby Mom Is Nominated For Canada's Top Mompreneur
PRWeb: Shani Sam, owner of Tot-To-Go™ Baby Products has been entered into the ring to win The SavvyMom Mompreneur™ of the Year Award. The reader’s choice contest is designed to find Canada’s top Mompreneur™. The winner will be announced in the fall, and will be rewarded with an $18,000 prize package of cash, business services [...]
Tottoo's Keeping Children Safe
Gazette.net: Virginia Lu found a lost child crying at a Redskins football game last season, and thought it could easily have been one of her five youngsters who got separated in the crowd. So, the North Potomac resident invented a temporary tattoo for tots, called Tottoos, which are aimed at helping lost children to reunite [...]
TreeHugger: Sometimes a hobby can take on a life of its own. If you are lucky, that hobby turns into a viable business opportunity. What started as a creative outlet for junk mail frustration has now become a line of magnets, beads, wallets and handbags all made from unwanted catalogs, credit card offers and other [...]
Online Pocket Change Not Easily Spent
The New York Times: The idea of micropayments — charging Web users tiny amounts of money for single pieces of online content — was essentially put to sleep toward the end of the dot-com boom. In December 2000, Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor in New York University’s interactive telecommunications program, wrote a manifesto that people [...]
ThinkGeek: Black Black by Lotte is the powerfully caffeinated gum and candy sensation from Japan. Made famous in the U.S. by Wired Magazine, Black Black also contains Vitamin B-3, ginseng and oolong tea. In Japan the Black Black commercials feature none other than Jean-Claude Van Damme performing his wild gymnastical kung foo stylings. US $1.99. [...]
Mom’s Invention Gives Shorties A Lift
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: If you’ve visited a public restroom in a Whole Foods location or at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport lately, you may have noticed a new convenience — the Step ‘n Wash. Joi Sumpton, a mother of two, was sick of hoisting her kids up to wash their hands and realized there was something missing in [...]
FSB Magazine: Michelle LaBrosse is the founder of Cheetah Learning, which offers project-management training courses worldwide. She teaches business clients how to meet goals such as developing a product, launching a website, or reaching a sales quota. She also runs a corporate retreat in Haines, Alaska, and sell kayak-making kits that can be used for [...]
Cynthia Sweeley of Menu Master on Starting Up
The following interview is with Cynthia Sweeley, President of Menu Master, Inc. Cynthia launched a successful home-based business 13 years ago as a single parent with a poverty level income. Despite many obstacles and difficulties, she built this ground level business into one of the most successful menu and placemat companies in the United States. [...]
LifeHacker: Back in August we told you about Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity secret where he uses a giant calendar and then marks off the day in a giant red ‘X’ when he writes something that day. The key is not to break the red X chain. Inspired by Jerry’s idea, the folks at SmarterFitter have built [...]
