Archive for March 14th, 2008
Low-Cost And Fast-Track Global Real Estate
Smart Company: When Simon Baker took over the CEO chair at online real estate classifieds company RealEstate.com.au in 2001, he reckons it was weeks from collapse. He then spent the next seven years digging the business out of a hole and building a global company. His first step was to cut costs by 55% and [...]
Moms Help Other Moms Launch Their Own Business
TheDenverChannel.com: Have you ever had an idea and wanted to turn it into a business, but never did. Two local Moms want to help change that. They’re using their experiences of launching their own business to teach it to other mompreneurs like them. “It can be an uphill battle if you don’t know what you’re [...]
Utah Inventors Hit It Big With A Little Watch
The Salt Lake Tribune: A Sandy couple is showing that with a little desire, some expertise and a small amount of capital, a home-grown business can be created out of almost anything – even pee and poop. Alan and Pamela Parkinson started with a yearning to have their own business and did it by making [...]
Lathering Up Some Soap Scent-sations
Having only started in December of last year, Soap Scent-sations is yet another great mom-owned business on Etsy. Kristi Mott, the mom behind this business, started to become interested in soaps when she realized her son developed some skin irritation problems related to them. Once Christmas she received a soap making kit where she experimented [...]
Entrepreneur: You hear it all the time from famous entrepreneurs: Long before they were running multimillion-dollar companies, they were flexing their entrepreneurial skills by selling lemonade on the corner, building gadgets in their garage or hosting weekly college beer pong tournaments. It seems that behind every successful mogul is a kid who grew up knowing [...]
Parents Making Money Without Leaving Home
First Coast News: Carin Walling is a working mom. Her day begins at 7:30 a.m. when she wakes up with her toddler twin daughters, Callie and Henley. “We do breakfast together,” says Walling. “Sometimes I go to the gym in the mornings and other times we play until nap time. When they lay down at [...]
Young Entrepreneur Learns Ups And Downs
Washington Post: By the time he arrived at Virginia Tech in January 2004, Fahad Hassan still was not over his first business failure. He had poured his heart into a computer support business in his final year of high school, but after a promising few months the customers dried up and the expenses ballooned. At [...]
Entrepreneur: From preparing the kind of business you want to run to fine-tuning your image and conflict management style, the inspiring stories and advice offered in the following book will help women entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level (even if it’s just the first). Career and Corporate Cool : How to Look, Dress, [...]
Gazette-Times: Amber Humphrey considers herself sort of an ice cream fairy, bringing the creamy frozen dessert to people who never thought they could eat ice cream again. Her alternative “ice la crème” products came from her own health problems and inspired her to search for healthy ways to keep her family happy. “It came from [...]
