Archive for May 12th, 2008
Moms that helped Entrepreneur Success
Yahoo News: When Bobbi Brown was struggling to decide what to do with her life, her mother suggested a mental exercise that lead to the creation of her eponymous cosmetics business, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. Napoleon Barragan, founder of 1-800-Mattress, remembers his mother washing his family’s clothes by hand in the river, an image that inspired [...]
Starting A Blog for Your Workplace
KansasCity.com: A blog — a Web page made up short, frequently updated posts — can be a great marketing tool. Many business blogs notify customers of new promotions and products, answer questions, promote contests and share company news. A blog also can be a great listening tool that provides insight into what your customers think [...]
Mother/Daughter Real Estate Team
Tallahassee.com: Call the mother-daughter partnership of Realtors Anna Gallagher and Joy Blomeley commercial compatibility. It certainly isn’t shared life experience. “I can remember sitting in the lobby of a title company coloring while Mom was doing a closing,” Blomeley said of her childhood with a Realtor mother. “A lot of times when Mom would pick [...]
Tips For Juggling Motherhood and Your Business
When I do an interview with a work-at-home mom, I almost always ask them how they manage their time between the business and their family. Each person gives me a unique answer and others are very much the same in what they do. Below is some excellent advice from a news website about what some [...]
TurnTo23.com: Marie Davis is a stay-at-home mom and loves her job, though she didn’t always think that way. She said she never thought about being one before she had children. Davis and her husband have made many financial sacrifices for her to be a stay-at-home mom. Davis wouldn’t mind getting paid for the job she [...]
European Invention Keeps American Babies Warm: Kindersack
With newborns and babies in general it can be a trick figuring out how to keep them warm in their crib without having to use a blanket, which can be viewed as dangerous. Every parent wants to make the right decision for their children and themselves. Melissa heard about the Kindersack from her cousin who [...]
European Invention Keeps American Babies Warm: Kindersack
With newborns and babies in general it can be a trick figuring out how to keep them warm in their crib without having to use a blanket, which can be viewed as dangerous. Every parent wants to make the right decision for their children and themselves. Melissa heard about the Kindersack from her cousin who [...]
Entrepreneur Founds Firm With Sticking Power
Toledo Blade: Entrepreneur Randy Boudouris, 52, chose a midlife epiphany over a midlife crisis. Ten years ago, after a falling-out with his employer and a job as a print salesman, he began focusing on making money by himself. He started MagnetNotes Ltd. His premier product, MagneCotes, is a paper-thin magnet sheet that is fed through [...]
Secrets Of Success: Roxanne Quimby
BusinessWeek: Quimby, co-founder of Burt’s Bees, sold 80% of the company to private equity firm AEA Investors for an estimated $175 million. In recent years she has launched a couple of new ventures, including an organic cotton clothing company for children, happygreenbee.com, and Seaside Partners, a real estate development firm. Her secret to success: “After [...]
Chinese Entrepreneurs Coming To America
Los Angeles Times: Liu Keli couldn’t tell you much about South Carolina, not even where it is in the United States. It’s as obscure to him as his home region, Shanxi province, is to most Americans. But Liu is investing $10 million in the Palmetto State, building a printing-plate factory that will open this fall [...]
Times-Standard: It ain’t easy to be a telecommuter. Some people dream of severing the tether to their desk and long for the opportunity to work at home. They see adventure, freedom and personal control versus the commute, oppression and lack of control that sometimes goes with a show-up job. You need a dedicated desk, file [...]
