Archive for July 10th, 2008
Entrepreneur Has An Eye Out For Your Lids
PalmBeachPost: Perched on a stool at the cosmetics counter, watching every expert stroke of the brush in the mirror, taking careful mental notes of where the taupe is applied and how the plum is blended, you think to yourself smugly, “I can do this.” Irina Iosilevich’s invention? Press-on, peel-off eye shadow. The all-mineral colorOn appliqués [...]
Style Cafe Sends Mom's Gift Basket Filled With "Mommy and Baby Must Haves" to The Rachael Ray Show
PRWeb: After owning boutiques of their own and realizing the advertising needs of the work at home mom, Becky Ocasio and Kimberly Morales, opened Style Cafe Moms in June of 2007, an online “resource cafe for the trendy mom”. Offering an array of services for a businesses advertising and promotional needs, however they still looked [...]
French Mompreneur Offers Motorists Chance To Drive Green
China View: Electric, hybrid, LPG, or biofuel-propelled cars… the green car market is booming as more and more people in France and around the world become aware of the adverse effects of fossil fuels on the environment. The situation has been complicated further by the current specter of high crude oil prices. “Due to high [...]
Grammy K's Turns Passion Into Big Profit With Cookies
Business and Technology: The aroma of peanut butter fills a small shop at the Spruce Creek Fly-In, across from a runway where Kathy Blackman is baking cookies. But these aren’t just any cookies. They’re Grammy K’s Monster Cookies. The recipe for the dessert plate-sized sweets was created more than 30 years ago by Blackman, when [...]
Shop Brings Fashion Flair To Cave City
The Batesville Daily Guard: Angela M. Ring always knew that she wanted to have her own business, but “I didn’t know exactly what,” she said. When others have asked her why she would want her own business, Ring said her reply is usually “to pass some time.” But it’s more than that. To her, it’s [...]
Need Press? Repeat: ‘Green,’ ‘Sex,’ ‘Cancer,’ ‘Secret,’ ‘Fat’
The New York Times: The original pitch landed in the inbox with a whiff of medical authenticity overlaid with a snicker-inducing headline: “Toxic Ties to ‘New Shower Curtain Smell’ Evident, According to Latest Laboratory Testing.” There was a news conference, this release said, at New York University Medical Center. It was led by a doctor [...]
Whipping Your Website Into Shape
download squad: No more excuses: let’s get your small business Website whipped into shape. People who are moderately online use the Web as their first search source. Phone books are dead trees; if your business is not online with an easy-to-find phone number, I’m clicking elsewhere. What do your site visitors want most of all [...]
Are You A Toilet Paper Entrepreneur?
CNBC: In garages, basements, spare rooms and even dorm rooms all across America, hard-working dreamers are launching businesses right this minute. The thought of this really gets me going. I’m all about the underdog, the passionate entrepreneur with a small amount of cash and a huge heart. I refer to these people as Toilet Paper [...]
Fingerprinting Turned Into Wearable Jewelry
Fingerprints are unique from person to person. Deb Nester of Prairie Creations has jewelry-fied the fingerprints, and pet prints, of many loved ones into a charm. The kit, which costs $49.95, includes everything you’ll need to make a silver fingerprint. She carries instructions on her website to help her customers get the best print possible. [...]
Fingerprinting Turned Into Wearable Jewelry
Fingerprints are unique from person to person. Deb Nester of Prairie Creations has jewelry-fied the fingerprints, and pet prints, of many loved ones into a charm. The kit, which costs $49.95, includes everything you’ll need to make a silver fingerprint. She carries instructions on her website to help her customers get the best print possible. [...]
Early Retirees In New Ventures
The New York Times: You, too, can be an entrepreneur. Many of them are part of the first wave of America’s 76 million baby boomers who are taking early retirement and turning their hobbies into small businesses. Very small businesses. They say their microbusinesses are a way to give focus to a favorite pastime, get [...]
The Internet Is The New Sweatshop
Newsweek: When an executive wants to sound humane during a public address to the staff, he or she will trot out the well-worn phrase, “Our most valuable assets leave the building at the end of the day.” Clichés are generally true, but this one may not be, thanks to the growth of user-generated content on [...]
