Archive for September 21st, 2007
Roseville Press Tribune: For more than 23 years, Darlene Leyva has been running her own businesses. After relocating from the Bay Area to Oak Street in Roseville, she’s thinking she’s hit the mark. Leyva runs Pin-up Girls Salon and Boutique with the help of her daughter Marisa, who grew up in her mom’s salons. Splashed [...]
San Antonio Native Creates A Booming Baby Business
MySA.com: San Antonio native Katy Mimari is proof that a good business idea, combined with lots of self-promotion, often leads to success. At the age of 25, she designed six diaper bags combining stripes and polka dots with non-baby colors of brown and black. She wanted to sell them across the country. Just three years [...]
Paradise Mom Opens One Heavenly Business
Paradise Post: Last December, local entrepreneur, Jennifer Chavez, a Paradise resident for 13 years, began One Heavenly Baby, an online business selling handcrafted baby products. Her Web site focuses on bibs and burp clothes in a variety of colors and patterns that she created. She got the idea to start crafting these products when, “I [...]
eBay’s IT is Now Shop Vicctoriously
BRANDWEEK “Shop victoriously” is eBay’s new mantra. As the holidays approach, the Web’s No. 1 retail site (with roughly 80 million unique visitors a month, per ComScore Media Metrix, Reston, Va.) is looking to drive home its new winning message. A massive marketing blitz, created by BBDO, New York, will proclaim “It’s better when [...]
His Soul Temporarily Was Bought On eBay
Faithnet.com Hemant Mehta was raised in the Jain faith (a religious tradition rooted in India), but became an atheist as a teen. Now in his twenties and a high school math teacher near Chicago, he is active in many groups that promote secularism. In early 2006, Mehta auctioned himself off on eBay to a Protestant minister, agreeing to attend a variety [...]
Ecommerce-guide.com The eBay Community Development team announced changes that will most likely please eBay members who are tired of multiple log-in screens as they move throughout the auction site. Soon they will be able to log in with their user ID and password and actually stay signed in as they use other areas of eBay, [...]
Entrepreneur: Making a million is a milestone–the defining moment of success for many entrepreneurs and an attainable goal for those tapped into today’s hottest trends. Entrepreneurs are keeping their fingers on the pulse of what’s hot in today’s marketplace. They are the trendsetters, the pioneers, the ones to watch as they lead the pack, followed [...]
Entrepreneur: The video-game and electronics industry has long been dominated by men. But according to a recent study done by advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, “lady geeks” are fed up with that notion. The study reported that 35 percent of female internet users would spend more on consumer electronics if retailers tried targeting them for [...]
American-Statesman: Bob Fabbio, one of Austin’s best-known entrepreneurs, is back in the startup game with a new company that provides routine medical care to people at home or at work. WhiteGlove House Call Health Inc. lets clients schedule visits from medical professionals between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. seven days a week. The company also [...]
Entrepreneur: It’s commonly said that business valuation is more art than science. If this is true, then the practice of valuing a startup business is squarely in the domain of the artist. Nevertheless, entrepreneurs need to put a value on their startups in order to raise money, and investors need to put a value on [...]
15 iGoogle Gadgets For Productivity
Web Worker Daily: While there are still many who love Netvibes, iGoogle has its share of fans in the start page world. And with more than 25,000 gadgets available for iGoogle, the array of choices is sometimes overwhelming. Choose wisely, and iGoogle can be a great tool for productive web work of any kind. 1. [...]
