Archive for April 7th, 2008
Beware Of The Regulatory Traps Of Home Business
Smart Company: A friend of mine and his spouse are starting up a tourism B&B and have found it necessary to get a tourism license to operate. Sometimes state and council rules and can trip up an unwary home business person and can limit the type of business you can conduct at home. You may [...]
Maidenform Launches The Backless Bra
USA Today: Elaine Cato, 40, never intended to become a bra designer. All she wanted, seven months after the birth of her second daughter in 1998, was to look hot for a New Year’s Eve party. Last week, Maidenform rolled out for other women what she invented to solve the problem, calling it the Breakthrough [...]
Motherhood And Entrepreneurship In Beijing
China Daily: A group of self-employed women in Beijing have found managing motherhood and entrepreneurship can be tricky business. “It’s like walking on a high wire, hoping not to fall off,” says Israeli Dana Elraviv, a mother of two who runs feng shui consultancy A Matter of Chi. “Both jobs are extremely important; your children [...]
Mom Successfully "Shows Her Stuff" Through BSB
Many people think BSB means Backstreet Boys, but not anymore. Now it stands for Bean Sprout Babies, a mom-owned business that sells great gifts for kids, paintings and wall murals. Although Carrie Bishop only does wall murals for local customers, the other great items she sells and makes can be found online for sale. For [...]
From Dream to Entrepreneur Reality
MomInventors: In 2004, 52-year old Sandy Stein faced the prospect of unemployment after 32 years in the airline industry. At the same time, her husband’s job was at risk, as well. Sandy knew she had to re-invent her life to guarantee a future income for her family, including their 10-year old son, Alex. Her invention, [...]
Lazy Man Creates Self Making Bed
BrazilBusiness.Biz: Italian engineer Enrico Berruti admits it was personal laziness that first prompted him to come up with the idea of a bed that makes itself. 3 years later, his first prototype is on show at the 5-day International Exhibition of Inventions that started yesterday in Geneva. The bed has a contraption at the sides [...]
Unlock Your Company’s Creativity
Forbes.com: Innovation is one of those sexy-squishy words that big companies throw around in splashy ad campaigns and white papers. Innovation implies new stuff; new stuff implies growth; and growth implies higher stock prices and beach houses in the Hamptons. But innovation isn’t just the province of the big. Just because small companies don’t command [...]
Greg Winston At Inc.: I’m a born-again feminist. Yes, I know, that’s a pretty strong admission for a guy. But if my years of sales training have taught me anything, it’s the power women have in sales. There are some companies and industries — such as real estate, insurance, office equipment — that have picked [...]
Rhonda Abrams: Without customers, you don’t have a business. But it’s difficult and costly to land a customer. So once you have a customer, how do you keep them coming back? That’s where customer retention and loyalty programs come in. You’re familiar with loyalty programs already — the most obvious example is the airline frequent [...]
Entrepreneur: Facial coding is not an exact science, and is only now starting to find business applications. It dates back to the 1960s when San Francisco psychologist Paul Ekman found that expressions are learned early and are the same in Japan and Argentina as they are in the USA. Animators have embraced facial coding to [...]
‘Mompreneur’ Finds Online Niche
Canwest News Service: For Julie Jonas of Beaconsfield, Que., motherhood has been the mother of invention. It’s because of her daughter that Ms. Jonas has created Zia and Tia Pure Luxury Organics, an e-commerce company that sells an array of organic products ranging from baby clothes and bedding to toys and toiletries. “The idea came [...]
