Archive for July 1st, 2008
Service Lets Drivers Lock In Gas Prices
Reuters: The high price of gasoline has some U.S. drivers looking to the future. A recently introduced service called MyGallons.com allows drivers to fill up their tanks sometime in the future but at current prices, using a debit-like card which banks gallons rather than dollars. “The price of gasoline was changing all the time. It [...]
Mommy-Invented MyPacifier Expands
PR Web: MyPacifier.com, the inventor of personalized pacifiers, has introduced several new color and style MyPacifier Personalized Pacifier sets to their growing line of products. Since MyPacifier.com introduced the world’s first personalized pacifiers to America in early 2006, customers have suggested softer colors that don’t include dark red and dark blue, which are more popular [...]
Moderizing The Baby Generation
With the new generation of mom’s coming out, there is a need for a new generation of baby items. We are now looking to modernize from that traditional clothing we wore as kids. The bedding we put in our babies cribs are becoming more like what we would want in our own rooms. At Quilt [...]
Entertainer Sees Comeback For Ventriloquism
The Wall Street Journal: After years of performing at elementary schools and state fairs, Dallas-based ventriloquist Terry Fator was on the verge of bankruptcy. Then last summer he earned some money and respectability by winning the “America’s Got Talent” show on NBC. He banked a $1 million prize, and the Las Vegas Hilton signed him [...]
Clothing Rental For Size-Changing Dieters
Springwise: For dieters working to lose weight, maintaining a decent wardrobe of clothes that fit can be an ongoing—and expensive—challenge on the way to a target size. With just that situation in mind, Transitional Sizes rents out name-brand clothing for temporary use while the pounds come off. Maryland-based Transitional Sizes, which just recently launched, offers [...]
Success In The Baby Business: Bediboo
Starting a business is not the easiest venture to take. Especially if you’re looking to open up in the baby product business. There are a variety of these kind of mom boutiques online, but the most successful ones always have something a little different from the rest. At first glance you might think Bediboo is [...]
Success In The Baby Business: Bediboo
Starting a business is not the easiest venture to take. Especially if you’re looking to open up in the baby product business. There are a variety of these kind of mom boutiques online, but the most successful ones always have something a little different from the rest. At first glance you might think Bediboo is [...]
The Commercial Appeal: In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, the young wizard and his friends are first introduced to magic by a master wandmaker who helps them select the instrument of their magical education. The literary series ended with last year’s final installment, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” but a Memphis wandmaker is helping [...]
Google To Offer Tool To Measure Web Hits
The Wall Street Journal: Google plans to unveil a new service that measures Internet use, according to advertising executives who have been briefed on it. The tool is intended to help advertisers identify the best places to buy online ads by telling them which Web sites their target audiences visit. Google’s approach, aimed at bolstering [...]
7 Ways To Make Your Biz More Visible
StartUp Spark: It’s important to make your business visible, in your community and beyond. After all, when people are looking to buy products or services, they usually opt for the business they remember seeing or hearing about. Use the following ideas to market your business, create visibility, and drive more customers to your doors. 1. [...]
