Archive for April 25th, 2008
If you have ever asked yourself, “Who coined the term ‘Mompreneurs’?” then you don’t need to wonder any more. Registered by two moms years ago, mompreneur belongs to Patricia Cobe and Ellen H. Parlapiano. Authors and mompreneurs themselves, they have written two books called, Mompreneurs®: A Mother’s Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Work-at-Home and Mompreneurs® Online: [...]
Mom O Matic's Automat Charming Jewelry
Chicagoist: We like to make it a personal mission to make ourselves look like a bunch of crazy wildflowers. Local Mom O Matic’s Automat is helping us in our quest with their vintage buttons and plastic bits transformed as fun, bold jewelry (we adore this church basement charm bracelet, pictured). Mom O Matic herself, Tanya [...]
The card industry covers quite a few aspects of life and parenthood, and it also misses three things. Can you guess? Twins, triplets and quadruplets. When we walk up and down those card isle their’s nothing from the point of view of a family that has twins or more. If you do some clicking on [...]
Musician’s Idea Now A High-Tech Reality
AZCentral: It’s been a long time coming, but long-time Valley performer Jerry Riopelle’s idea that you can make music with laser beams finally is a real product in real stores. The Scottsdale musician’s beamz music system debuted in Sharper Image stores last week and stars on the cover of the gadget retailer’s next catalog, hitting [...]
College Buddys Form a Rental Website
AZCentral.com: Three college friends who grew tired of paperwork hassles while leasing property to renters have developed an online site that modernizes the age-old deal between landlords and renters by making it electronic. The 20-something entrepreneurs working on the fifth floor of a rented Brickyard office in downtown Tempe flipped the switch on their site, [...]
Mom-Owned Business Is "2 Sweet"
Named for Carin Walling’s twin daughters, 2 Sweet Sisters is a family-run online children’s boutique that is still doing very well. Having been launched for a year now, as of April 1st – probably the best “April’s Fool” idea around, 2 Sweet Sisters has grown and features many great children’s products like the hooded towel [...]
Mom-Owned Business Is “2 Sweet”
Named for Carin Walling’s twin daughters, 2 Sweet Sisters is a family-run online children’s boutique that is still doing very well. Having been launched for a year now, as of April 1st – probably the best “April’s Fool” idea around, 2 Sweet Sisters has grown and features many great children’s products like the hooded towel [...]
Entrepreneur.com: As a new entrepreneur, you can save a great deal of money by setting up your business at home rather than renting or buying office space. Unless you’re running a retail-type business, most entrepreneurs can feasibly start from home. Then as you grow and your needs change, you’ll be in a better position to [...]
Bringing New Products To Market
The Examiner: Richard Donat, CEO of the consumer products company AbsolutelyNew, wants to democratize the marketplace. AbsolutelyNew started out as a marketing services company, but according to Donat, it transformed after he saw that many inventors were being faced with a lot of difficulty finding a means to get their innovations into the marketplace and [...]
Sam Houghton, Britain’s Youngest Patent Holder
Mirror.co.uk: Sam Houghton has already had a brush with greatness – at the age of five. Inspired by his heroes Wallace and Gromit, Sam has become Britain’s youngster inventor by patenting an idea for a new type of broom. He had the brainwave as his dad Mark swept up garden leaves. Two brushes were in [...]
Work.com: A business line of credit – ready cash anytime you need it – is a marvelous and flexible financial tool to help a small business grow and keep you in control. Establishing the revolving credit line is cheap, you only pay interest on what you borrow and you can use the line for almost [...]
What To Wear When You Work From Home
ExpertClick.com: You may have replaced your long commute to the office with the choice to work from home, but that’s no excuse to lounge around on your computer in your p.j.’s, messy hair and bunny slippers. While some may say who cares what you wear, as long as you are comfortable because no one is [...]
Making Money Online is Work: There is No Secret Formula
This is a guest post by Alan Johnson. From losing weight to earning a living online, people seem to always be interested in finding some sort of a secret formula for everything. Wouldn’t it be great if we somehow had a secret formula for solving all of our problems? Wouldn’t it be great if we [...]
Update from YourCityGuide: Our First Bizop
I don’t normally republish full emails that I receive, but this one is unique. The blog post of mine that he mentions is the very first one that I published on this site way back in November of 2001. Because of this, I’ll let him tell you about his business opportunity: Hi Dane, My name [...]
