Archive for June 6th, 2008
Stay-At-Home Mom Creates Artsy Biz
Frederick News Post: A former teacher who has always liked to take photos has turned her hobby into a business. Traci Keyes, now a stay-at-home mom, upgraded her camera a few years ago for a beach trip and began taking more than family keepsake shots. As a way to boost her church, Grace United Church [...]
Even More Home-Based Biz Ideas
All Business: If you are thinking about starting your own home-based business, the available options can be overwhelming. However, there are many tried and true home-based businesses that may be just what you are looking for. 1. Computer repair. Are you the person everyone calls when they have a computer problem? Turn this into a [...]
Entrepreneur: From gourmet dog food to designer bottled water, almost any low-end product can be taken upscale. Just ask Andrew and Robin Schiff, founders of Spread, a couture peanut spread line and vegetarian restaurant. “We took the most pedestrian product, peanut butter, and turned it into one of the most gourmet products in the world,” [...]
Price-Conscious Shoppers Spur Private-Labels
Kiplinger: Retailers are enticing price-conscious shoppers with private-label goods. As consumers tighten their purse strings, store chains are luring them to spend more dollars in one place with appealing branded products not found in other stores. As other retailers have discovered, private-label goods can lure customers back into store aisles. Twenty years ago, shoppers bought [...]
Springwise: Every family has a pile somewhere of their children’s drawings. Since culling out and saving the best works isn’t easy, two moms/entrepreneurs from New Jersey devised a solution: theART:archives. How it works? Parents send in their kids’ drawings and theART:archives team professionally photographs each one and sends back a DVD catalogue that can be [...]
ModMama For Parents And Their Kids
KIDOINFO: ModMama is a modern, urban shop for kids and their parents. Rachel, the owner, is a mom of Enzo and Milo, ages 4 and 2, who are lucky to test many of the items for sale at the shop for fun and durability! ModMama was awarded Best Kid’s Clothing Store in 2007 form the [...]
Denver Celebrity Examiner: Can any of us forget Oprah’s love-fest in Telluride last month when she interviewed Tom Cruise on the 25th anniversary of his break-out role in Risky Business? Well, one Aurora mom, Jenny Ford, isn’t soon to forget. This is because Tom’s appearance on Oprah just very well may have been Ford’s break-out [...]
Moms Making Big Money Selling Baby Products
cbs11tv.com: Amy Long and Samantha Scott are two local entrepreneurs who think they know what moms want. After all, they’re experienced mothers. Long and Scott created two different products that weren’t readily available when their children were babies. They are moms making money marketing to other moms. It’s a consumer group that’s continually renewing itself. [...]
More Utah Women Owning Businesses
BYU NewsNet: Danielle Mahoney and Jean Colarusso are two women starting their families. While this may seem typical, especially here in Utah Valley, the two are also doing something not so typical. They recently purchased a Dream Dinners franchise in Orem, becoming two of many female business owners in Utah. “I wanted to help women [...]
Storks Just Don't Bring The Babies Anymore
Liisa Vexler loved to shop. She was pregnant with her first child and couldn’t seem to find anything that she was looking for locally. After the birth of her son she searched high and low online to find many great items being offered, things that she was looking for. Many of the items made by [...]
Commonly known as the rich mans game, golf is a well known game that many people all ages and genders have enjoyed over the years. For a real lover of the sport, it can also be a lucrative business opportunity. IntelliTurf is a franchising opportunity for those interested in starting a business which dedicates itself [...]
A new way to polish up a little business is by using a unique form of advertising. Shine Mark Systems gives business areas the chance to offer a free shoe polish while that person vies a little advertising. The advertising is that earns the money, the shoe polishing draws the attention. Their machines are advertised [...]
The idea of giving a kid a haircut can bring up two imagines. The child that fights it, or the child that loves it. Sharkey’s Cuts For Kids is a franchise that markets itself in the haircutting business but also offers other fun things for children as well. A Sharkey’s franchise is set up for [...]
My Gym Children’s Fitness Center
In a day and age where childhood obesity is becoming a growing problem, keeping children active while they’re still having fun is becoming more important. My Gym is a franchise which makes it’s money by monopolizing on that idea. At the My Gym Children’s Fitness Center, kids can get exercise while interacting with others. They [...]
Amazingly the people behind Boneheads were not businessmen, they were master chefs and people who just appreciated good food (and the happiness that come with it)! They asked themselves, “Why deep fry fish or chicken when you can enhance the natural flavor and keep it healthy by simply grilling it?” They also knew that they [...]
