Archive for July 16th, 2008
My Small Business: It wasn’t that long ago that women had to resign from their jobs when they became pregnant to stay at home and look after the children. How times have changed. Today, parental leave is improving by the year – Woolworths recently announced that it will give its female workers eight weeks’ paid [...]
Centre Daily: Balancing motherhood and a career are no easy task, even when you work for yourself. Female entrepreneurs don’t always know where to begin with their work, especially when they have little ones to care for at the same time. Beth Feldman is a “mom-preneur” and the founder of Role Mommy (www.rolemommy.com). Feldman provides [...]
Wee Adventures To Open In Runnells
Herald-Index: The vacant brick building standing next to the Casey’s General Store on the north edge of Runnells is no longer empty. A new, locally owned business called Wee Adventures is moving in and the business owner, Beth Erickson, will be offering before and after school daycare, plus preschool, for area youth. Erickson, who has [...]
HP Mom Entrepreneur Grant Giveaway
HP in partnership with BSM Media and co-sponsored by KCMetroMoms.com are giving mompreneurs a chance to win some money to help grow their business. They will be choosing 2 winners to get a $500 grant as well as a $100 Walgreens gift card. How do you enter? 1. Do you create unique promotional items using [...]
Earning A Profit From Nonprofits
Star Tribune: Keeping nonprofit organizations in touch with supporters is a personal mission and profitable business for entrepreneur-activists Chris Hanson and Mark Paquette. Their Minneapolis software company, thedatabank, makes customized, Web-based relationship-management software. More than 800 nonprofit groups in Minnesota and around the country use it to communicate with donors and spur members to action. [...]
Bringing An Idea To The Masses
Press & Sun-Bulletin: Few individuals have a moment of clarity when they give birth to an idea for a product or service, and even fewer take that idea and make it happen. Taking an idea to market is a long process, but in the end it’s worth it, inventor Mark Saroka said. “It’s extremely exciting [...]
Star-Telegram: Randall Hunt was a Fort Worth electrician tired of fighting the Texas heat four years ago when he invented Put-In-Cups. The small, plastic squares fit snug in the spaces of a chain-link fence and do the same job as a banner. The idea came to Hunt after passing by a Fort Worth-area school and [...]
Art Comes To Life In Stuffed Creatures
The potential for a business is endless. There are so many unique ideas, some that people haven’t touched on yet and some that people have, that can turn into something very successful. The real trick is finding that diamond in the rough and doing something with it. Then there is a woman like Karen Lefebvre-Christou [...]
Art Comes To Life In Stuffed Creatures
The potential for a business is endless. There are so many unique ideas, some that people haven’t touched on yet and some that people have, that can turn into something very successful. The real trick is finding that diamond in the rough and doing something with it. Then there is a woman like Karen Lefebvre-Christou [...]
News-Leader: As a small-business owner, Theresa Gallup has learned “you can’t do it all. Hire the professionals.” Hire a professional accountant, hire a Web designer, hire anyone who can fill in the blanks you can’t. You can learn these skills, but the time it will take to learn them and the results are often not [...]
Hack Your Day: Productivity is something that escapes many people in the morning, and I would be the first to admit to that myself. I’m far from being the easy waker, although I tend to “fall into shape” fast once I get up. For most of us the problem lies in our sleeping schedule, which [...]
