Archive for June 23rd, 2008
Entrepreneur Creates Campaign Button for Pets
Biz.Yahoo.com: A Kansas City entrepreneur is happy that her business has gone to the dogs … literally. It’s a busy year for Sharon Young, who designs and sells campaign buttons on her website, PoliticalShop.com, and she has recently gotten the family pet in on the action with her new product line, Patriotic Pets(TM). With slogans [...]
Wedding Idea Leads to Web Success
News.Bbc.co.uk: Dan and Janine Russell, from Plymouth, set up a web-based mail-order company to finance the £6,000 wedding in 2006. Now it has a turnover of more than £250,000 and is growing so fast that Mr Russell, 23, is looking at retirement in the next 12 months. Mr Russell, said setting up the firm, called [...]
Kids' Consignment Store Helps Seattle Parents Find Affordable Threads
seattlepi.com: Baby fashion is big business these days, and a new Seattle store offers that style with a discount, selling hip children’s attire that’s just a little “experienced.” Le Petit Shoppe opened its doors seven months ago, the brainchild of two Seattle moms who twisted children’s consignment shopping by focusing almost exclusively on high-end used [...]
Mom Makes Guide For Stay-At-Home Moms
HometownAnnapolis.com: Melissa Stanton never set out to be a stay-at-home mother. It just sort of happened as the result of a confluence of events — her husband taking an out-of-state job, her own long commute to a high-pressure New York magazine editing job, and the Sept. 11 terror attacks. ‘I woke up one day and [...]
Parenthood is a business all on it’s own. Like any business, how would you share your personal information? Business cards! The Mommy Card is a business which makes cards for mom’s interested in a unique way to network with other moms. Meet a new mom at play group? Then hand her one of your cards. [...]
About a month ago we did an interview with Olivia about her business, Baby Candy, and she is offering one of her products to be given away to one of our readers. Starting today and ending on July 3rd at 11:59pm, leave a comment on the original post telling me which shirt is your favorite [...]
Lifehacker: Find the cheapest way to send a package with web application Shiptool. After providing the site with your shipping and destination addresses and package type, Shiptool scours UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL, and returns all of your shipping options sorted by price to help you find the cheapest solution to fit your needs. The [...]
Jay Leno’s Chin Inspires Invention …
PRWEB: Everyone who has grown a goatee knows how difficult it is to get it right. One little slip and the perfect goatee can literally go down the drain. After years of struggling to get his even on both sides of his face, a Little Rock man has created a revolutionary device that takes the [...]
smSmallBiz.com: As more and more Americans work from home — be it running a business or telecommuting for a job — the home office, which was once relegated to a small corner in a kitchen or perhaps a dank basement, is finally receiving some well-deserved attention. This week, we’ll take a look at how four [...]
Amazon Rumored To Launch PayPal Competitor
Mashable.com: As you might know, Amazon introduced last year its Amazon Payments shop-till-your-cell-phone-drops system for use at Amazon.com and partner sites. Still, the idea of broadening the Amazon Payments business greatly piques the interest of analysts. One more party to voice enthusiasm for a larger payment network to span a vast supply of Internet commerce [...]
About a month ago we did an interview with Olivia about her business, Baby Candy, and she is offering one of her products to be given away to one of our readers. Starting today and ending on July 3rd at 11:59pm, leave a comment on this post telling me which shirt is your favorite from [...]
Kemby Has Compacted Diaper Bag And Carrier
There are so many different kinds of carriers available on the market, so I was very impressed when I first read about Kemby and the carrier/diaper bag concept they had created; the Sidekick. Although they are a new business and the product is new, the potential for success is great. I can’t speak for all [...]
Kemby Has Compacted Diaper Bag And Carrier
There are so many different kinds of carriers available on the market, so I was very impressed when I first read about Kemby and the carrier/diaper bag concept they had created; the Sidekick. Although they are a new business and the product is new, the potential for success is great. I can’t speak for all [...]
Study Shatters Myth On Net Use At Work
Associated Press: It’s no secret that people sneak in some personal e-mail and Web surfing when they’re supposed to be working. A new study attempts to shatter perceptions that these Web surfers are just slackers trying to avoid work. In fact, it turns out everyone does it, from senior managers to entry-level employees — and [...]
