Archive for July 25th, 2008
Nonprofit Shredding Business Opens
Wicked Local: A new business in downtown Mansfield is helping out local youths while allowing people to shred documents and protect their privacy. Mansfield Shredding Service, located at 174 N. Main St., is non-profit and all green. It has been designed to fill a void: employment for some of Mansfield’s mentally challenged teenagers. The operation [...]
IT News Online: There are many resources for new parents who have questions about their babies or want advice and tips from other moms, but few are aimed specifically at parents of twins or multiples. Pampers, a leader in baby care for more than 40 years, is helping to fill this void by partnering with [...]
Green Trend Hits Wellesley Diaper Set
Wicked Local: Starting next month, even the babies in Wellesley will begin to go green. A new store, Your Baby Naturally, is coming to Wellesley Square in August. The store will sell organic baby products such as clothes made without chemicals or dyes, wooden toys, organic bedding and cloth diapers. It is the first, and [...]
Keep Your Biz Bank Accounts Safe
Rhonda Abrams For USA TODAY: With the collapse of a major bank, Americans are, rightfully, concerned about the safety of their money. The U.S. government, through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., protects up to $100,000 per individual, but what about your business deposits? Here’s what you need to know: • FDIC insurance does cover business [...]
Company Offers Stay-At-Home Jobs
Silver City Sun-News: Imagine a day when you crawl out of bed, grab a cup of coffee and stumble to work in your pajamas. Your first customer orders a Big Mac, fries and a drink, but you’re sitting in your living room sipping coffee. Sounds more like you’re still in bed dreaming, but in reality [...]
yorkregion.com: Amber Kelly discovered what she hopes will be a niche in the women’s jeans market. The 24-year-old Newmarket resident expects to open her new store, Denim Diva. She is part of a growing number of youth entrepreneurs, striking out on their own. The trend is underscored by the province’s Summer Company program, operated under [...]
Open Giveaways: Wet Happened? and Sterling And Pearls
We currently have 2 giveaways open, and there is still time for you to enter. 1. If you’d like a chance to win your very own wet bag, a bag which can hold anything from dirty diapers to wet bathing suits, that giveaway is still open as well. The Wet Happened? wet bag giveaway is [...]
Changing Your Web Working Niche
WebWorkerDaily: Whether you want to take your web working career into a different direction or you simply want a refreshing distraction from your regular web work, it’s likely that you’ll consider changing your niche market at least once in your career. What are the consequences of changing your niche? Is that even advisable? Also, how [...]
The Mail Box Stores Trumps Over Post Office
Post offices are becoming less and less popular options for sending packages. Now people tend to consider other special shipping stores which offer extra services that the post office doesn’t offer. The Mail Box Stores is a business opportunity for those that want to get in on the money that can be made from customers [...]
Children are amazing, and at The Actor’s Garage any child can learn to be a star! Regardless of whether you want your child to be on television or not, the mission of The Actor’s Garage is to teach children to have self-esteem and a sense of individuality, promote good listening, as well as giving them [...]
ZAPP! Gum Opens Up New Distributorship Opportunity
For the entrepreneur looking to find that new, great opportunity to pursue, they just might be able to get the chance to do that with ZAPP! Gum. They are rolling out a brand new distributorship opportunity and giving people a chance to get in on the ground floor before they officially launch it on August [...]
All Natural And Organic For The Whole Family
When it comes to Adena Surabian’s products, it is not so much what is in them as what is not found. As in, no parabens, no sulfates, and no synthetic fragrances. These products are gentle for children, while adults are able to use it too. From shampoo to diaper cream, her line of all natural [...]
All Natural And Organic For The Whole Family
When it comes to Adena Surabian’s products, it is not so much what is in them as what is not found. As in, no parabens, no sulfates, and no synthetic fragrances. These products are gentle for children, while adults are able to use it too. From shampoo to diaper cream, her line of all natural [...]
Desert Dispatch: When the commissary at Fort Irwin started pushing people to go green and use reusable grocery bags, Genevieve Campbell came up with an idea. This Fort Irwin mother of two started making custom bags as an alternative to the plain cloth ones sold by the commissary. She opened a store, SweetGroceryBags, online last [...]
Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: Has anyone ever told you that your business idea won’t make it? That your idea is too odd, too unique or too different? That you need to stick with what is proven? Here are the top seven weirdest entrepreneurial endeavors going on. If these business can be successful, so can yours: 7. [...]
What Your Dog Can Teach You About Your Biz
Rhonda Abrams For USA TODAY: Woof! Allow me to introduce myself — I’m Cosmo, Rhonda Abrams’ dog. At our office, dogs come to work every day, and I think I can help you learn a thing or two about business success. There’s a lot that you — as a businessperson — can learn about what [...]
CNET News: The modern woman, per the popular ’70s television commercial, was once “bringing home the bacon and frying it up in a pan.” Now she’s also writing a blog. As many as 3,000 women attended the fourth annual BlogHer Conference 2008 to talk about their lives, their businesses, and their blogs. And in some [...]
Of all the hotels available today, one brand is truly known worldwide and that is the Hilton family of hotels. They are also a top franchiser when it comes to hotels. Something that can easily be seen through how they have grown in all areas of the world. They have many different franchise brands to [...]
Loan Pains Turned Site Into a Hit
The New York Times: The misery in the housing market is registering on the Implode-O-Meter. As millions of homeowners fall behind on their mortgages, a fledging Web site called the Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter is gleefully tallying the number of lenders that run into trouble too. With its tongue-in-cheek tone and running lists of the “imploded” [...]
Talula Does The Hula, Won’t Do
Associated Press: A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it. Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed. Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name could be [...]
