Archive for December 24th, 2007
Astro Valley Mom Gets Her Kicks Out Of Mixed Martial Arts Business
ebPublishing: You’d never guess from her amiable personality and diminutive appearance that Tammy Stone has a fondness for Mixed Martial Arts fighting—one of the most popular competitive sports today. “I had a business here before, and for a while the building was empty, so I wondered what I should do with it,” said Stone, owner [...]
Although the Simple Startup Small Business software was not created by a mom, MomLaunch is dedicated to moms. Dave is the man behind this software that is designed to help moms start their own part-time businesses from home. I got the email Friday letting me know that the website was officially up and people can [...]
Think Santa Is Busy? Talk to a Wood Toy Maker
New York Times: Ron Voake has spent the last few months in a blur of wood, wagons and widgets, trying to keep up with demand for the toys he makes in his home here. Voake, the owner of Vermont Wooden Toys, has been deluged with orders from customers leery of buying toys made in China [...]
Elf Employment Up In Santa Tourism Boom
Seattle Times: Christmas Star” can’t let grueling hours wipe away her smile as she escorts a group of about 45 tourists through the Lapland forest. “Sometimes I work from 8 in the morning to 10 at night,” says the 21-year-old “elf,” whose real name is Riikka Niukkala. She’s an employee of Arctic Safaris Oy, a [...]
Boston Globe: It’s commonplace today to decry the commercialization of Christmas, to yearn for the kind of holiday depicted in old engravings: a candle-laden tree, a hearty Yule log burning in the fireplace, some nuts to crack and – for those both lucky and good – an orange. But our idea of a “traditional Christmas” [...]
Christmas Tree Takes To Airwaves
Edmonton Sun: Stoking the holiday spirit, Shaw Cable is offering viewers a Christmas tree that requires no setup or takedown and leaves behind no pine needles to clean up. The cable company this year is giving subscribers a Christmas tree filled with a different kind of sap. Building on the notorious fire log channel, which [...]
AppScout: TrackThePack is designed to be your one-stop shop for tracking information on all of your shipments. Type in a tracking number and some notes about the shipment, and you’ll instantly get up-to-date shipping information about the package, where it currently is, when it’s scheduled for delivery, and what its current status is. If you [...]
