Archive for April 2008
Sewing is a talent, one that not everyone has. It’s always great when I get to see a success story about a mom who takes her talent and turns it into a business. In this case, Caroline used her sewing skills to sew herself a unique diaper bag. She didn’t want what everyone else had. [...]
"Green Moms" Launch Family-Friendly Greensite
The Mercury News: Raising a child in a world with fears over toxic plastics in baby bottles and children’s toys isn’t easy, just ask any mom or dad. Things get even more complicated when you start to wonder which fruits and vegetables are most important to buy organic to avoid pesticide fallout, or even choosing [...]
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The Office Meeting – FedEx Kinkos
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When Hard Work Doesn’t Pay Off
From MSNBC.com BEIJING – A $286,000 sculpture in northeastern China that took two years to build was dismantled days before its unveiling because a senior government official disliked the color, local media said on Tuesday. “Fly,” a show-piece installation at a new airport terminal in China’s northern port city of Tianjin, was taken down after [...]
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Cube News: My Nuts Are Your Nuts
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Where Do You Go To Slack Off At Work?
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Coffee Shop Opens in Bad Economy
Wluct6: The economy may be struggling nationwide, but that isn’t stopping one entrepreneur from starting her own business in Escanaba. Cynthia Wakefield opened her coffee shop, Biggby Coffee, nearly two weeks ago in downtown Escanaba. Her goal was to not only serve a great cup of joe, but also to give patrons a great environment [...]
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Small print reads: “Come Face-To-Face With The Top Of The Food Chain. Book a behind the scenes tour with the lions at calgaryzoo.com.” Nothing says behind the scenes fun like the idea of being eaten!
Office Dominoes – Chaos In The Print Shop
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Springwise: Our brains resemble our muscles in one key respect: don’t exercise them, and they’re likely to lose strength. Conversely, many experts now believe that brains stimulated in a healthy manner can better resist debilitating mental conditions such as Alzheimer’s. Which begs the question: how to keep brains in top shape? The solution offered by [...]
Burp rags are the best friend of a new parent. All the spit up that happens when burping our babies after a bottle makes us thankful for a good burp cloth to help get us through that time in our children’s lives. It was Sheila McGoldrick that took the burp cloth that we all know [...]
Burp rags are the best friend of a new parent. All the spit up that happens when burping our babies after a bottle makes us thankful for a good burp cloth to help get us through that time in our children’s lives. It was Sheila McGoldrick that took the burp cloth that we all know [...]
Got An Idea That Could Make You Rich?
Fortune Small Business: A lot of businesses wisely secure partnerships with large corporations to help them refine, expand and properly market intellectual property. But it’s best to be cautious when you pitch your idea. Just this week a woman sued Victoria’s Secret for rejecting a product she pitched them and then putting the product on [...]
Entrepreneur Becomes Millionaire… Without Spending A Penny
Daily Mail: A businessman whose invention made him the star of BBC’s Dragon’s Den has made his first million just three months on – without spending a penny of the £150,000 investment. Budding entrepreneur Peter Moule, 53, secured the cash for his innovative plastic electrical wire junction box – called a “Chockbox” from two dragons [...]
Biz Resource: TypeRacer Tests Your Typing Skills
Webware: One thing that affects your productivity when using a computer is your typing speed. If you’d like to know how you stack up in the typing world, there’s TypeRacer–a wonderfully simple game that pits you up against other typers, and of course your 100-plus key stead. The goal is to type as well as [...]
10 Hacks To Improve Home Office Productivity
Lifehack: If you work from home, the central part of your work life is the home office. For some, that means the kitchen table, but most of us assign a specific room to be the base of operations and (try to) do our work from there each day. If you can’t identify the things that [...]
When your Internet service is interrupted, does your business stop? No Yes Internet outages are minor and have no effect. View Results In comments, tell us how you handle your business when you can’t get online.
Mom Gets Creative With Onesies
Sometimes it amazes me how the inspiration for a business comes to some people. In this case, a business literally just fell in Olivia Omega Logan’s lap. It all started when she was trying to come up with a unique baby shower gift. So she decided to turn to her sewing skills and ended up [...]
Friends Start Maddy And Max Resale
NWI Times: Jennifer McWhirter, a stay-at-home mom with years of retail experience, and her friend, Amy Jalovecky, an orthodontic assistant, had always talked about opening a business together. But it wasn’t until McWhirter saw the barely worn clothing from her two growing children pile up that the two got the idea to open a gently [...]
The small print reads “Are we not overreacting to the dangers of sugar?”
Seacoast Online: The location at 33 Deer St. has three personal service businesses under its roof. One of them is Vanity, a hair salon owned and operated by Heidi White, a teenaged mother-turned-up and coming entrepreneur. White had originally dreamt of becoming a psychiatrist, but at the tender age of 17 she found herself to [...]
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Use a Bic razor to shave off your Bic pen beard!
Determine Your Workplace Worth
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How Not To Answer The Top Five Interview Questions
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From USAToday.com LANSING, Mich. (AP) — David Sneath has worked at a Ford Motor Co. parts warehouse for 34 years, but it didn’t take him any time at all to walk out once he discovered he had won a $136 million Mega Millions jackpot. “I yelled to the boss, ‘I’m out of here,”‘ Sneath said [...]
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Hayden Panettiere Sexual Harassment
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Bad Day? Have Some Chocolate (Unless You Work At Honda)
From BBC News Staff at Swindon’s Honda factory say they have been banned from eating cakes and fruit in their break rooms. They also claim they can only eat certain types of chocolate bars that do not contain a biscuit base. Questionnaires are now being issued by the Unite union to consider what action staff [...]
These Guys Screen Pros Of Tomorrow
The Wall Street Journal: The National Football League draft was watched obsessively by college players, family members, rabid fans — and two former political operatives in New Jersey who have made a big business out of spotting tomorrow’s NFL stars while they’re still in high school. Douglas Berman and Richard McGuinness run an all-star football [...]
Man Trapped In Elevator For 41 Hours
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$300,000 Watch That Doesn’t Tell Time
From The Wall Street Journal A $300,000 watch? Luxury. A $300,000 watch that doesn’t tell time — and that sells out? Pure genius. According to several news reports flagged by my friends at Luxist, Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome just launched the “Day&Night” watch. The watch won’t tell you what time it is. That’s so yesterday. [...]
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Marketing Lessons From Dixie’s BBQ
The Responsible Marketing Blog: One of my favorite quotes of late is “Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable,” credited to Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad at the Ad Age Idea Conference. I doubt Gene Porter from Dixie’s BBQ in Bellevue, WA has an advertising budget, nor does he need one. But [...]
Biz Resource: Find Things Fast And Free With Your Cell Phone
Smart Biz: Chances are you are doing a lot more “business” on the run these days, making your cellphone / smartphone a crucial platform. Here’s how to find what you need on the go: Google Maps One of the best apps for finding what you need on the go is Google Maps Mobile. The Java-based [...]
Patterns Woven Into World Bazaar
Concord Monitor: If you bought a rug at Wal-Mart or Home Depot in the last three years, there’s a good chance it was designed by Tressa Kosowicz, a work-from-home mom from Hopkinton who left New York City’s fast-paced world of fashion design eight years ago. After three years as a product developer for a major [...]
The Style Within Cloth Diapering
When some of us that aren’t so familiar with cloth diapers think of one, we most likely have an image of big scary pins and large cloth squares that comes to mind. That is what Sandra Rocco thought of when she decided to look them up online. She was very surprised to see the variety [...]
The Baby Gardner Is Vintage Inspired For Babies
Vintage is a style that is fast bringing back the things our parents used to wear. Many of those things are classic and speak of a time that will never be duplicated. These same items can bring us good memories and a good feeling that we want our children to have. Deanna Gardner has a [...]
