Archive for September 25th, 2007
News Blaze: Ever popular alligator embossed spike-heels, slick patent-leather Mary Janes, almond-shaped toe metalics, chunky-heeled ankle boots, we-want-them-all, and a pair of those new wedges too, all carefully arranged on the livingroom dining table this weekend. “Build a better mousetrap and they will come,” or in this case build a better show outlet, and hard [...]
Penny Auntie's New Owner Continues Tradition
Lower Hudson Online: The parents and children of Chappaqua know Penny Auntie 5&10 as a place where they can find fun and quirky toys and gifts. For the women who have owned the store during its nearly 30-year history, it’s a place where they could find a life that balances family and work. Cross River [...]
I didn’t know it, but Work at Home Chuck is a regular Squidoo wizard. His new lens, for Angel Food Ministries, is currently ranked #58 out of all lenses on Squidoo. Be sure to read Chuck’s other posts about Angel Food Ministries.
ManPower Blogs: In a highly unscientific and probably wildly inaccurate poll, we ranked the best workplace songs in the history of mankind based on input from HR audiences around the country. 5. Get a Job. We’re still analyzing the lyrics ”yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, mum, mum, mum, mum, mum, mum, get [...]
Small Biz To Spend $70 Billion Online By 2012
Inc.: As the number of small businesses continues to grow over the next five years, they will be spending more money online, new research shows. In a new report, “U.S. Online Small Business Market Category Forecast, 2007 to 2012,” New York-based JupiterResearch projects that total online spending by small businesses will exceed $70 billion by [...]
Million Dollar Biz: Sew What? Inc.
Entrepreneur: After immigrating to the U.S. at age 19, native Australian Megan Duckett found work as a technician for a concert production company–and started sewing in her spare time. Her first gig was sewing fabric coffin linings for a Halloween show. “I rented a [sewing machine] and lined 10 coffins,” recalls Megan Duckett. “[I discovered] [...]
I Run My Business From A Closet
FSB Magazine: Every morning I wake up at 4:30, brush my teeth, and head to the office wearing pajamas. I don’t travel far – my desk is in my bedroom’s walk-in closet. My husband, Tom, and I started our 12-employee firm, Atlantic Infra-red, in 2002 out of our home in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. We [...]
New Way to Woo Customers? Birthday Presents
Inc.: Everyone likes presents on their birthday — including your customers. Creating a “birthday club” could ensure that you have many happy returning customers. Birthday Connections, a new service launched by Moving Targets, a Perkasie, Pa.-based direct-mail marketing company, allows small-business owners to create and send birthday offers based on specific demographics and geographic areas. [...]
