Archive for January 18th, 2008
A One Woman Bakery, From Romania To Port Townsend
Port Townsend And Jefferson County Leader: Anca Hasson started experimenting with melting sugar when she was a girl growing up in Romania. She remembers rations of a half a kilogram – about a pound – of sugar per person a month. And the only nuts available were walnuts from local trees. Today Hasson owns her [...]
All Weather Blanket Inspiration Turns Into An All Weather Woobee Creation
Their are many mom businesses out there but not all of them are unique. Even I have to admit, a water resistant blanket is very creative and I’d have to say that’d fit quite well under the definition of unique. Wouldn’t you? Heather Correa is the owner of These Two Girls, the business that sells [...]
Maternity Accessory That's Pregnancy Tested And Nursing Approved
If you’ve every needed maternity clothing, then you probably know how expensive it can be just for something you will only be wearing for a short period of time. Deborah Grover of BellySock™ LLC founded her business based on her own needs. The high costs of maternity wear had her frustrated so she decided to [...]
Entrepreneur Markets BBQ Sauce
Star-Banner: Derrell Croft is a blue jeans and a short-sleeved shirt kind of guy. He’s an everyman, a 63-year-old utility worker who talks with a Southern drawl only a Florida native could possess. He’s also a genius, an artist really. But his masterpieces can be bought in four bottles for about four bucks. Croft created [...]
The Go-Giver By Bob Burg and John David Mann
Here is a snip of a letter that I received from Bob Burg and John David Mann regarding their new book, The Go-Giver: We are so grateful for the many friends and colleagues who have given us so many endorsements for The Go-Giver. Now that it’s actually on the bookshelves, we’re beginning to get even [...]
PayPal Launches Storefront Widget
TechCrunch: PayPal has launched the PayPal Storefront Widget, a web based widget that allows anyone to embed a store widget on a web site. The Storefront widget offers a seamless e-commerce platform for those wishing to sell anything on their site, such as t-shirts, CD’s or other items. Users can set the widget to “sold [...]
Inventors Use Sun To Capture Pool Debris
Arizona Business Gazette: Denis Ruzsa and his partner, Terry Maaske have been inventing for 30 years. The two have collaborated on more than 300 different inventions during their partnership, with Maaske generating many of the original concepts. Ruzsa, who has an engineering background, rounds out the concepts and generates the prototypes. They have a separate [...]
Help, My New E-Store Has No Traffic!
Fortune Small Business: Q: I created a business called NEK Body Essentials. It sells 100 percent natural, custom-scented body products for men, women and children. How can I generate more sales on the Internet? A: Imagine that you open up a store half a mile off the highway, just far enough off the road where [...]
Advice to Aspiring Entrepreneurs: Play Poker, Triggit CEO’s Example Shows Zach Coelius came to San Francisco at age 25, as a Minnesota native and Silicon Valley outsider. Within a month he crashed the high-profile Demo conference and charmed his way into a top-secret poker game among venture capitalists, where he won a thousand (tags: bizopblog [...]
Dell and NFIB Small Biz Contest Goes Global
Small Business Computing: For the past four years, Dell and the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) have co-sponsored a contest aimed at recognizing – and rewarding – small companies that use technology in innovative ways to improve the customer experience. In this its fifth consecutive year, the Small Business Excellence Award program is expanding [...]
