Archive for October 17th, 2007
New Role As Owner Of A Bakery Is A Fulfilling One
Catonsville Times: Faith ‘n Me, a bakery owned by Catonsville residents Paula and Adam Reed, opened Sept. 9, in the building formerly housing Paradise in a Teacup on Bloomsbury Avenue. The couple chose to open on the same day as the Catonsville Arts and Crafts Festival to take advantage of the crowds drawn to the [...]
The Birth Of Ergo Baby Carrier
USA Today: Having a baby can be a life-changing experience for a woman. For Karin Frost, giving birth to her first child also spawned the start of a life-altering business. Frost owns Ergo Baby Carrier, which produces a line of baby products — including backpacks, tote bags and diaper bags — all designed by Frost. [...]
Inc.: Anyone who does business online worries about how to boost Web traffic. But traffic is only part of the story. Equally important is the conversion rate–the percentage of customers who actually buy something. On average, companies report that only 3 percent of Web surfers actually buy, according to a survey by Shop.org, a division [...]
Entrepreneur Barks Up The Right Tree
Toledo Free Press: Marissa Milliron isn’t your typical entrepreneur. Sure, she came up with an original idea and found a way to produce, market and sell it like any budding businesswoman would. She’s got her tax identification number, a checking account and a debit card for business expenses. And in a little more than four [...]
Inventor Comes Up With Mailbox Drawer
The Jasper Newsboy: Pete Shivers just got tired of scraping up the side of his truck getting the mail. He lives where there is a row of mailboxes, so when he came in after dark and tried to pull up close enough, he would scratch his truck on other boxes. The idea of having to [...]
Wilmington Star: Quickly wheeling around the cramped workspace, Duckelson Duval loads a commercial ice cream maker with water and sugar, and asks his daughter for a bucket of chopped strawberries. Stretching from the seat of his wheelchair, he packs the berries in with a spoon using a mirror to see. The owner of Mariah’s Water [...]
Making A Little Company Look Big
The New York Times: Small may be beautiful, but looking too tiny is another matter. That is what Angela Ford thought six years ago, when she started TAG Worldwide, her Chicago-based real estate and property management firm. At the time, Ms. Ford was working on the staff of a property management company, and the last [...]
