Archive for November 27th, 2007
Navy Mom Turns Beads Into Business
The Times West Virginian: Tammy Nathan took up jewelry making as a hobby and now has her own business, Belle A’Mour Bead Designs. Nathan, originally from Philippi, has been in the Navy for 19 years. She’s a health care administrator and does a lot of work with medical education and training. She graduated from Fairmont [...]
A New Wine From Four Generations Of Women
Napa Valley Register: New wine brands are released just about every week, it seems, but one brand that made its debut last weekend is quite different from others. It’s made by a company that has four generations involved. And they’re all women. Leo Joseph Estate Cellars in St. Helena produced the wine from the Lawrence [...]
Gatorade Inventor Dr. Robert Cade
Houston Chronicle: Pick a flavor — Rain, Frost, Lemon-Lime, Fierce, AM, Xtremo — and drink a toast today to Dr. Robert Cade, inventor of the concoction once nicknamed “Cade’s Cola” and now known as Gatorade. Cade died Tuesday in Gainesville, Fla., from kidney failure. He was 80. Cade and three colleagues developed Gatorade in 1965 [...]
It Doesn’t Have to Be All Business
The New York Times: As work is increasingly making inroads into leisure time, many business travelers are finding ways to turn that equation around — combining their travel for work with time for cultural and historical sightseeing. “Cultural tourism can be an extension of business, it’s not just fluff,” said Patricia Martin, a marketing consultant [...]
Entrepreneur Creates Doggy Java
Marketing Daily: An entrepreneur in Phoenix is looking to combine the growing craze for coffee and coffee products with increased discretionary pet spending, through a new product introduction: Doggy Java. “Everybody drinks coffee and tea,” Mari Justin, creator of the drink, tells Marketing Daily. “I thought that it would be a good time to share [...]
5 Ways to Profit from Good Ideas
Lifehack.org: Turning a good idea into a successful innovation requires the glass to be full. A half full glass simply isn’t enough. There are many things involved in bringing a product to market successfully or turning an idea into reality and each one of them needs to be right, or at least close enough. Here [...]
Starting Your Own Homebased Business?
Entrepreneur: They roll out of bed in the morning and head off for work–still in their pajamas. They work from their dining room tables, stock inventory in their cupboards and arrange meetings in the lobbies of their local hotels. They set their own schedules, jog on the beach during their lunch breaks and give out [...]
Business Week: Does your toddler wear perfume? Should your newborn eat organic? And has your four-year-old been to the gym lately? Moms and dads a generation ago might have laughed at these questions, but today there is a booming market for products and services targeting affluent parents willing to spend freely on their kids. Armed [...]
