Archive for March 2008
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City Grounds Is Dream Business For New Owner
KCCommunityNews: Raytown resident Inge Howard has always wanted to own a business. Her dream came true when she purchased City Grounds Coffee Shop, at 6200 Raytown Trafficway, Feb. 26. “My first job I ever had worked at was McDonald’s,” Howard said. “I always thought I needed my own franchise. It was always so expensive. When [...]
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Vera Sweeney Rises To The Top With Celebrity Gossip
Newsday.com: As a stay-at-home mom living in Garden City with two babies, Vera Sweeney needed an outlet, a place to pour her creative energy, a place to indulge her obsession with celebrity gossip. She might’ve been perfectly satisfied reading about Britney and Paris and Lindsay and BCBG and fitted jeans on somebody’s Web site. Instead, [...]
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Baby Carriers For Your Little "Puj"
Katie Richardson is not the average mom. Having met her husband in college, Katie and Ben are both designers. When they decided they wanted to have children it was Katie that decided that she wanted to stay home to raise her kids. She didn’t let that stop her from designing still. Instead of designing under [...]
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Mom 4 Life Takes On Parenthood One Product At A Time
Having opened shop in October of 2003, Heather has seen her online store grow by leaps and bounds. Going from a small cash investment to having a more than enough product for visitors to her boutique to choose from goes to show the success she has had in the past 4+ years. Heather also makes [...]
Starscapes: In The Business Of A Starry Night
People who love stargazing have the opportunity to turn that love into a business of their own. Starscapes is one of the more unique ways available to make money. A custom painted mural business, Starscapes is a business that sells murals that are painted by an “Artist-Illusionist”. These starry night skies can be painted on [...]
If anyone was going to be the most aware of what food allergies exist, it would be the parent of a child that has them. When Robyn O’Brien’s fourth child was diagnosed with food allergies that sent her on a track that she wasn’t about to be shaken off of. Launching AllergyKids on Mothers Day [...]
Scrabulous Successful Scrabble Facebook Application
CTV.ca: According to its Facebook profile “Scrabulous is a cool application,” one that lets you “invite your friends” to play and is “the best word game!” After listening to the game’s co-creator Jayant Agarwalla speak on his brainchild for an hour, it became apparent that this succinct, yet hyperbolic statement may in fact be very [...]
cm-life.com Emily Turbiak’s “Hands on Handbags” might someday put women hoping to choose the perfect purse or handbag at ease. The Livonia sophomore received a $500 cash prize in the Labelle Entrepreneurial Center’s “Make a Pitch” competition Thursday in Grawn 100 for her web page-based custom handbag business idea. “The average person changes (handbags) three [...]
Simplifying The Babysitter Finding Process
Finding the right babysitter isn’t always that simple. Parents want to make sure the person who will be caring for their child is a responsible person and will not treat their kids in a way that would be inappropriate. The Seeking Sitters franchise opportunity gives moms and dads the chance to turn the process of [...]
Edison …Wasn’t He the Guy Who Invented Everything?
The New York Times: Invention may be mothered by necessity. But determining the father can require a paternity test. Take the sound recording. Researchers said last week that they had discovered a recording of a human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman two decades before Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph. An unusual case of [...]
Forget Tupperware; It’s Taser Party Time
Associated Press: Before she lets them shoot her little pink stun gun, Dana Shafman ushers her new friends to the living room sofa for a serious chat about the fears she believes they all share. “The worst nightmare for me is, while I’m sleeping, someone coming in my home,” Shafman tells the group, drawing a [...]
Unlikely Places For Eureka Moments: Television
Wired: Philo Farnsworth Inventor Rigby, Idaho, 1921 While plowing a field at age 14, Farnsworth — who had been studying electrons and vacuum tubes — looked out across the even furrows and was struck with an idea. He could project moving images line by line, and the eye would stitch them together: “I have abandoned [...]
Mom 4 Life Takes On Parenthood One Product At A Time
Having opened shop in October of 2003, Heather has seen her online store grow by leaps and bounds. Going from a small cash investment to having a more than enough product for visitors to her boutique to choose from goes to show the success she has had in the past 4+ years. Heather also makes [...]
BusinessWeek: US Magazine has a section called “Just Like Us!” that showcases celebrities who are unwittingly photographed doing chores readers recognize from their own, less glamorous existences. “Britney carries groceries!” “J-Lo changes diapers!” We all know that by dint of their fame and fortune, these stars are nothing like us at all. Here’s another way [...]
The New York Times: Herb Peterson, who invented the Egg McMuffin as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald’s restaurants, died at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 89. Peterson came up with the idea for the menu item, the signature McDonald’s breakfast dish, in 1972. The Egg McMuffin made its debut at [...]
Australian Women Take Charge In Business
The Murray Valley Standard: Entrepreneurial spirit is strong in the Murraylands, particularly among women. Women in the region are striving in business whether it be owning their own company or within managerial roles. A report commissioned by Westpac shows women in business in regional or rural areas get a head start on their city counterparts. [...]
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In need of a new business card design? Try a lego! That’s what the members of La Cambre Architecture have decided to do.
This Listermint Mouthwash ad shows the results of bad breath.
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News.com.au: business owner wants a competitive rate when signing up for essential services such as gas and electricity but failing to look beyond cheap introductory honeymoon rates can come back to bite, as hundreds of small business owners found recently. In February the Federal Court found Wesfarmers Kleenheat Gas had misrepresented the true ongoing cost [...]
Having a special needs child opened up Alycia Shapiro’s eyes to how hard it was to find exactly what she wanted. When Alycia’s child was born she had no idea what to get for toys. So she commonly just got what looked good. It wasn’t until he got a little older that they found out [...]
The Return Of The Cloth Diaper
Winona Daily News: Tina Darr believes in saving the environment one cloth diaper at a time. Well, actually two cloth diapers at a time for the mother of 13-month-old twins. “There has been a cloth diaper revolution,” she said. “Cloth diapers are not like they used to be.” Like breastfeeding, glass bottle usage and organic [...]
Mother/Daughter Team Up To Create Italian Restaurant
The Natchez Democrat: A mother-daughter duo are keeping it all in the family with their new restaurant Ve’Gyarne Pasta Garden. “It’s 99.9 percent family owned and operated,” manager Vickie Green said. This quaint Italian restaurant on Martin Luther King Jr. Street, with its dim lighting, strings of white lights, bubbling fountains and reservation-only nooks, has [...]
Lori Roberts' Career Path Focuses On Family
Tallahassee Democrat: Lori Danello Roberts cherishes being a work-at-home mother “because I see everywhere a battle between working moms and stay-at-home moms, and I get to be in the middle of that and couldn’t be more thrilled.” At FSU she refined her graphic arts skills, but she grew impatient with theory and wanted to set [...]
Advertising With Giant Green Dragons
Wtoc.com: I’ve never understood the giant green dragons and purple gorillas that you see on the side of the road from time to time. Oh, I know they’re they’re for a reason. I just don’t see their appeal to car dealers or their use as a marketing tool. I mean, has anyone ever been driving [...]
A Beary Big Success from Build a Bear Workshop
News.Yahoo.com: The Entrepreneur: Maxine Clark, 57. Clark left a successful corporate career to start her own business, Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE:BBW – News), then a relatively new concept in retail entertainment. (According to Clark) I have always believed in listening to what others have to say, but being careful about the advice you actually take. Rather [...]
The Man Who Pushed The Blue Envelope
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Terry Loebel wasn’t looking to start an advertising phenomenon when he went to his mailbox in 1967 and inspiration struck. Valpak, the company Loebel soon started, is today an advertising giant, sending its trademark blue coupon-stuffed envelope to 45 million homes each month. Valpak wasn’t the first company to start targeting consumers [...]
Three Steps To Paperless Office
PC Magazine: 1. Think Before You Ink. The change has to start here. We all have to change how we look at paper. Before you print out anything, ask yourself if it is absolutely necessary. If you have a digital copy of that e-mail, why do you need a printed version? The green blog TreeHugger.com [...]
Helpful Websites For Venture Start-Ups
Young Entrepreneur: Have you started a new business but don’t have the time to sort through all the websites online to find the best and most relevant information? 1) Venture Hacks Venture Hacks is an entrepreneur’s guide to hacking venture capital. Their goal is to help entrepreneurs get on an even footing with their better-informed [...]
It’s A Whole New World Out There
Times Daily: Ever since I gave up the corporate life a few weeks ago and left the land of cubicles, memos and staff meetings, I’ve realized why we created those things in the first place: Working at home is hard. Believe me, before I left the office to be a freelance writer, I spent many [...]
“Remember the Hook” When Marketing Small Biz
The Profit Repairman: Have you ever been fishing or seen how fishing is done? Without some sort of “hooking” device, very little fish would be caught (most do not just jump into the boat willingly). The same is true in selling your product line. Even when you have the most wanted product around, if you [...]
Work.com: Do you enjoy children? Do children like you? Can you tell stories, be a clown, play sports or a musical instrument? If so, then you may be able to start a small business doing kids’ entertainment. You can work for yourself and make good money at the same time. There are as many ways [...]
European Business Leaders Call For A Simplified Patent Process
ITNews: Europe’s 500, the association of the European top growth companies, calls upon the European Commission and the Member States to introduce a simplified central patent application process for the EU. At present, inventors in Europe are required to complete 27 separate registration processes in many languages across the EU27 and the cost of obtaining [...]
Moms Do Their Thing With A Baby Sling
Contra Costa Times: When Alicia Shaffer’s son Campbell was born in 2004, she was thrilled with the baby, but less than pleased with the alternatives for carrying the infant around. So the Pleasanton mom designed a baby sling, and before she knew it, a business was born. Shaffer designed her own sling because she didn’t [...]
Medical Advice For Curious Moms
Maryland Community Newspapers Online: It all started when Jamie Freishtat and Rachel Schreiber realized that they were becoming the go-to moms for friends in search of health advice for their kids. The two women, both mothers of two young sons and doctors who first met in medical school, said they often found themselves giving quick [...]
Life Is Like A Salon And Spa For Mom/Daughter Team
Press & Argus: Connie Kraska and her daughter, Colleen Kraska, have opened a unique combination business at the Sommer Breeze Salon and Day Spa in Brighton. Connie’s enterprise is called Soak Away the Pounds, offering what she calls “the strongest foot-detox system available today.” It’s an ionic detoxification bath for the feet that she says [...]
The New York Times: Businesses, large and small, will be directly helped by the new economic stimulus legislation passed by Congress. But small businesses, in particular, may get the biggest lift indirectly — from consumers spending their tax rebates. The $168 billion measure, which was approved by both houses of Congress with uncommon swiftness, includes [...]
Secret No. 7: Sell Consciously
Inc.: How often do we sell? If we counted out the time we are actually in front of a customer, it would probably surprise you. Most sales professionals are only with a client less than two hours per day. The reality is, we do so little selling there it’s hardly worth mentioning. So where do [...]
