Archive for April 23rd, 2008
Thinking Smart Helps Office Supplier
The Age: The US economy may be slowing but Australian finance company ThinkSmart is charging ahead with its previously announced deal with US office supply giant Office Depot. The Perth company launched a business-to-business leasing operation at 21 Office Depot stores in Florida, in the lead-up to a nationwide rollout planned for next year. Chief [...]
With cards printed using 100% recycled paper, Sweetbeets is another ecologically aware small mom-owned business. It wasn’t Lisa Zuraw that came up with the name for her business, her husband did. Calling their children “sweetbeets,” she decided that their is no better name out there. After all, her business was created because of her children. [...]
Couple's Dream Business Is Sweet
Post-Bulletin: John and Patty Gruber dreamed of someday owning a family business. But the Lakeville couple was clueless about what their enterprise would be until John asked his wife what she would do if she won the lottery. Thoughts of candy filled her head. The high school sweethearts today are living their dream among lollipops, [...]
CentreDaily: The Clear Box is a simple and clever idea that has hundreds of thousands of frustrated shoe owners across Europe praising its invention and wondering why they never thought of it themselves. It is the brainwave of a shoe obsessed Brit, Olivia Rocca, who took a risk on an ‘aha’ moment she had during [...]
The Greenville News: Business owners Doug and Michele Upton knew there had to be a less expensive, high quality alternative to silkscreen printing the T-shirts they sold. The fruit of their search for that alternative is the basis of the print-on-demand T-shirt cafe they’ve opened in the Haywood Mall. You Teez Me uses digital and [...]
Need A Biz Idea? Inspiration’s All Around
Gladys Edmunds for USA Today: Many of us are so preoccupied with our busyness that we miss many opportunities. We move through our days noticing very little of our surroundings. And yet, opportunity and valuable information and inspiration abound in our environs. These kinds of positive things are all around you. They exist in books, [...]
Fake Clouds Could Bring Sunny Future For Firm
Times Daily: The latest product from a Lexington-based industry has company owner Francisco Guerra walking around with his head in the clouds. The product is called Flogos, which combines the words flying and “logos,” and that’s a good description of the product. A combination of a little helium and a lot of air produces a [...]
Going Virtual: Small Companies Reap Savings
Reuters: Julia Hutton’s office is command central for a team of some 20 publicists working for Phoenix-based Orca Communications Unlimited LLC, the firm she founded in 2002, after years of doing in-house public relations work for corporations. Yet unlike the offices of most of her competitors, Hutton’s operates on a near-virtual basis. Her publicists stretch [...]
10 Ways To Deal With Fuel Costs
Daily Breeze: With fuel costs going through the roof, and headed even higher, small-business owners everywhere are feeling the pinch. And for travel-intensive businesses, such as those offering deliveries, it’s more like a punch in the gut. Government estimates say gas prices could hit $4 per gallon this summer. Employees are also feeling the pinch, [...]
