Archive for December 4th, 2007
A Snow Day Is One WAHM's Nightmare
WHEC: Snow day is a fun day for some students in Victor. Instead of hitting the books, they’re hitting the sledding hill by the high school. But it’s a different story for work at home parents. “I thought not today!” Jen McKinley said. “What’s the luck? Of all the days.” McKinley compiles data for a [...]
Work at Home Mom Helps Other WAHMs Compete With Big Business
PR.com: After quitting her job to become a work at home mom, Claudia Roberts of Commerce, TX realized that this plan was not as easy as she had believed it would be. She became friends with a number of other work at home moms, and realized that they all seemed to have a similar problem… [...]
My Favorite Books of 2007: The Walton Street Tycoons
When I was about seven, and heavily influenced by Encyclopedia Brown, I opened my first business. I’ve never been one for short business names, and “Dane’s Detective Agency” was no different. I put a cardboard sign on my bike and rode around the neighborhood looking for cases. My marketing program was unsuccessful, and I never [...]
Inventor Solves Age-Old Mystery Of Missing Socks
PR WEB: You’ve completed the weekly wash and as you’re pairing up socks for the drawer, you discover one or more have mysteriously disappeared. Sound familiar? Well, worry no more because a clever entrepreneur from San Francisco has devised a creative solution to this irritating phenomenon. Edwin Heaven is the inventor of THROX, the first [...]
I was running some errands today when I passed a public storage business. On their sign out front they offered “Santa Clausets” for customers to hide/store gifts until Christmas for just $10. I thought to myself, what a fantastic idea! My guess is that the storage business is a little slow in the month of [...]
Video: Here Comes Another Bubble!
Sung to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” this music video by the San Francisco-based Richter Scales is pure genius.
Fortune Small Business: Isaac Daniel will never forget the call alerting him that his 8-year-old son had disappeared from his school bus queue. Daniel was in New York City on a business trip and immediately jumped on a plane home to Atlanta – only to learn that his boy had sneaked back into school. “He [...]
Press Banner: Jerry Toste is only 21 and seems to have a perpetual smile on his face. He should — his low-tech startup, Cheap Hauling, is on everyone’s lips: Those trucks are everywhere. Toste is grossing $800,000 per year after 1½ years in business, not bad for a guy who decided that “college and I [...]
Valerie Khoo at MySmallBusiness: When I first started out as an entrepreneur, I worked out of home. One of the best pieces of advice I received was: “Get out of your pyjamas as soon as possible.” In other words, even though you are working from home, you need to change your mind-set and start the [...]
