Archive for June 13th, 2008
Many mom-owned businesses have the benefit of being inspired by their children. Julie sells many great pieces of jewelry for babies and their moms on Sterling and Pearls. She is also careful to make sure that all her baby/children jewelry is lead free. What I like most about her website is that she ties in [...]
Sun.Star Davao: WHEN Lyn Buyco-Tan’s dad, mom and younger brother Clec arrived from a trip to Singapore two years ago, they gifted her their 2-year old son Alec with a pair of light blue Crocs. “I let Alec try on the Crocs and he started running around the house in it. Later, when I tried [...]
Entrepreneurs Pull Together Female Freelancers for One of a Kind Business Resource
PRWeb: Good help is no longer hard to find. Online Business Management expert Nicole Dean and Technology Consultant Darina Loakman are making sure that business owners have a reliable resource for finding short and long-term help with the recent launch of a directory of professional female freelancers called Shelancers. “There are a number of freelancer [...]
9News.com: Texas baker Suzanne Maxwell built her “Lovin’ Oven Bakery” on wedding cakes, but in the past few years she’s been delving into divorce cakes. Maxwell developed the concept with the help of a customer. “She said I really want a wedding cake, but I’m getting a divorce,” Maxwell explained. And so it began. Tiered [...]
Handmade Bags For Every Woman: Pink Lemonade Boutique Bags
Some of the best looking products are handmade. There’s something to be said about all the work put into a handmade item that makes people appreciate it. That is just one aspect of what makes the Pink Lemonade Boutique Bags so special. Having been making them for 5 years now, Caroline Ritzer went from one [...]
Handmade Bags For Every Woman: Pink Lemonade Boutique Bags
Some of the best looking products are handmade. There’s something to be said about all the work put into a handmade item that makes people appreciate it. That is just one aspect of what makes the Pink Lemonade Boutique Bags so special. Having made her bags for 5 years now, Caroline Ritzer went from one [...]
BusinessWeek: Q: My husband and I are closing our business after many years, and we will be looking for jobs after the closure. Are we entitled to unemployment benefits, having been self-employed? A: Business owners typically cannot file for unemployment benefits when they close their companies. This is because unemployment benefits are a form of [...]
Moonlight On The Internet, Part V
Entrepreneur: With all the doom and gloom news about the economy, there’s never been a better time to make an extra paycheck online with a minimal amount of time and effort. If you have an internet connection, you can get started on the road to having the internet pay for your mortgage, car payment, kids’ [...]
LA Times: When she was 8 years old, Evelyn Espinoza sold bubble gum and other candy door-to-door in her Los Angeles neighborhood to earn money. By sixth grade, her mom was buying the enterprising 12-year-old toys at a wholesale mart to resell at school. Now 17, Espinoza is still hard at work. Her latest business [...]
Commuters, Employers Deal With Gas Prices
Chicago Tribune: Accountant Paula Luft recently turned down three jobs, one of them an ideal assignment 18 miles from her home, before accepting a position 11/2 miles away. The Arlington Heights resident can bike to work without breaking a sweat. In good weather she cycles home for lunch. “I always said, ‘If there’s a good [...]
