Archive for December 20th, 2007
Two Lucky Readers Will Win Gift Bags That Were Delivered To Select Celebrity Families
PR Web: Plainfield, Illinois based entertainment marketing company and their entrepreneurial women clients have presented thirty celebrity families with their own 2007 Holiday Gift Bags full of goodies, and will do the same for two lucky readers. “I love all of the products that have been included in these holiday gift bags”, Says Pometta. “As [...]
One Mom's Business Success Story
The Pueblo Chieftain Online: A former traveling bank employee has found a way to make money as a stay-at-home mom. Ann Niccoli started her business, Be Envied, in November 2004 with five handbags and a few women stopping by for a glass of wine. Niccoli had worked for a bank and spent a lot of [...]
Sneaky Food Chef Rakes In a Fortune
Tunedin.Entrepreneur.com: Who knew that writing a cookbook about how to disguise veggies in a meal could be a winning formula? Missy Chase Lapine recently appeared on The Big Idea TV show. Turns out she has such a passion for family and food that she quit her day job. The former publisher of Eating Well magazine [...]
The Year of Living Inventively
Entrepreneur: The editors of Entrepreneur.com sifted through hundreds of inventions that became available within the past year to compile a diverse list of innovative, practical and fun products. 1. Kindle. What it is: Since it became available in November, Amazon.com has struggled to keep this new electronic reading device in stock. The revolutionary portable reader [...]
Conde Nast Portfolio: When Vanessa Wauchope was growing up in Westport, Connecticut, she spent her free time doing what many teenage girls did for pocket money: She babysat. For $2.50 an hour, she was a mother’s helper, accompanying women from her church as they went to the beach with their children. In high school, she [...]
Dorm Was Start For Money-Making Side Biz
Weekend.Entrepreneur.com: Like many restless college roommates, Jamee Kunichika and Sherilyn Luke wanted a business to call their own. Instead of just dreaming about it, they took action. Having endured extreme highs and lows, they are now enjoying the sweet smell of success. Together they have attained their dreams with POOF, a liquid toilet odor eliminator. [...]
Writers’ Strike Cripples Small Bizs
Fortune Small Business: Writers aren’t the only ones sacrificing paychecks to the ongoing strike launched by the Writers Guild of America last month: The work stoppage is also crimping the cash flow of small businesses like History for Hire, Pam Elyea’s vintage rental business in North Hollywood, Calif. Even though Elyea and her husband began [...]
