Archive for June 25th, 2008
Entrepreneur Finds Profit In Compost
Canada.com: Many of us are ready and willing to separate our food and garden waste from other garbage, but Montreal still does not offer an organic waste collection program. You can do it yourself, of course, but many residents don’t have backyards and gardens in which to store the waste and spread the resulting compost. [...]
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'Budding Cook' Educates Aspiring Kids
MiamiHerald.com: Kids running around a kitchen near a hot stove and sharp knives, up to their elbows in food, can be a nightmare for even the most patient parent. To teach children cooking skills while avoiding a messy kitchen, Mimi Chacin started The Budding Cook. Chacin, who got her company underway in January, teaches kids [...]
From A Mom's Mind Comes Drop-In Daycare
East Valley Tribune: Scottsdale stay-at-home mom Tina Ryder was working out at a local gym while her 2- and 3-year-old children played in the gym’s nursery. “How great is that,” she told a workout buddy. “But you can’t leave.” She wished she and her friend could grab a grown-up lunch afterward knowing her children were [...]
Baby Shower Website Reaches Record Number of Visitors
PRWeb: After two years of plugging away at her baby shower website, Amy Cordray is finally celebrating, after hitting a milestone number of visitors. 3500 visitors [a day] may not seem like a large number to the big guys out there, but for Cordray’s hand-built site, it is quite an accomplishment. In the fall of [...]
Not just a bag, the Baby Mess Kit comes with a blanket, and bib for those parents that are on-the-go and need these things at hand when their baby might spit up or going out to eat. The designs come in different styles that mom won’t have to feel uncomfortable carrying around. It doesn’t matter [...]
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Trendhunter: A courier service from New Zealand called Deadline Express Couriers decided to demonstrate the timeliness of their deliveries with a bang. For that purpose, a promotional campaign was devised involving a billboard that was placed in the middle of the city. This billboard was fitted with a digital countdown clock rigged to self-destruct at [...]
Mother Earth News: Once upon a time, hard work, dedication to the company, and/or a strong union guaranteed your job for life. Today, it’s far more prudent to assume that sooner or later, you and your job will part company (if you haven’t already). It is my firm belief-and long-term experience — that developing and [...]
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 [...]
Retain Employees With Unique Perks
Entrepreneur Daily: These days, employee retention is a concern for many small businesses. Workplace Options, a provider of work/life employee benefits, hopes employers will try a new tactic to help keep workers: offering caregiving assistance. According to a national survey commissioned by Workplace Options, about one in four employees is providing care for an older [...]
When ‘Yak’ Happens, Be Prepared
If you’ve ever been in the car on your way back from eating somewhere and the food suddenly disagrees with your stomach, you already know what happens next is not pretty. Or maybe you have someone riding along with you in your car, and they suddenly get hit with a bout of car sickness. Tony [...]
USA Today: Baby boomers who came of age in the era of John F. Kennedy’s civic call to arms are now, in the second half of their lives, not just asking themselves what they can do for their country, but they’re actually doing it. A new telephone and Internet survey, touted as the first of [...]
