Archive for October 29th, 2007
Mom Creates Scrapbooking Alternative
Inside Bay Area: As a self-proclaimed “victim” of traditional scrapbooking, Cathy Bennett knew there had to be an online alternative that would provide the classy look she was going for in a baby book. Dissatisfied with mainstream photo Web sites, Bennett took matters into her own hands. Bennett, who lives on the Walnut Creek-Alamo border, [...]
InRich.com: The best inventions often spring from real life. So when life handed Kim Newlen breast cancer, the infectiously upbeat founder of the monthly Sweet Monday ministry drew on her cancer experience to help other survivors look better than they feel. The former teacher’s pretty, yet practical, post-surgical camisole for mastectomy, lumpectomy and reconstruction patients [...]
Mom Of A Special Needs Child Publishes First Book – A Birth Journal
eMediaWire: Author Marla J. Murasko has published her first book on Lulu.com. The book is a journal of her son Jacob’s journey from birth through the first six months of his life. It will take you on a faith-filled journey of when the couple was told that their precious baby has Down Syndrome and a [...]
100 Ways To Brew Up a Great Idea
Marketing Profs Daily Fix: 10. Alphabetize your refrigeratables. 9. Find a new word in the dictionary. 8. Think like a child. 7. Take Spot for a walk. 6. Write out the problem with your opposite hand. 5. Doodle. 4. Go for a drive with the windows open. 3. Think about it before you go to [...]
Forbes: Cory Doctorow: “I’ve been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money. When my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, was published by Tor Books in January 2003, I also put the entire electronic text of the [...]
KENS 5 Eyewitness News: In the tiny town of Troy, an eight-grader came up with a big idea. “One day I saw my sister putting her shoes on the wrong foot, so I decided to invent something,” Joel Williams said. Williams, 13, was only 9 at the time. But after turning his parent’s garage into [...]
Fortune Small Business Magazine: Q: My friend and I are getting a small online T-shirt business off the ground. We plan to sell our products on eBay and advertise by wearing our products and passing out business cards and fliers. Can you offer any other suggestions? Verne Harnish, CEO, Gazelles, Ashburn, Va. answers: As Seth [...]
Small Firms Driving Job Growth
Inc.: Small businesses have employed more than half of the nation’s non-farm private-sector workforce in recent years, according to updated data from the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy. In 2004, the latest year studied, small employers added nearly two million net new jobs to the U.S. economy, the data shows. “Small businesses are America’s [...]
