Archive for July 31st, 2008
LFPress: Baby, take off your coat, your shoes, whatever — but if you’ve shopped at Billy Thomson’s downtown store, you can definitely leave your hat on. Your hat, after all, may be the best part of your outfit. From Ed Hardy (grafitti) hats to Castro-style headwear and stylish new versions of everything from cowboy to [...]
For Entrepreneur, Toffee Business is Sweet
CentreDaily: As Janet Long found out, mom does know best. With her mom’s secret recipe in hand, Janet incorporated Elaine’s Toffee Co. three years ago with her dad and two sisters. In no time at all, the San Francisco-based toffee business was booming, and continues to experience strong growth with an expanded national distribution network [...]
Now and days an ad like that would end you on the wrong side of a Judge Judy case!
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Mouse Trap Monitor Office Prank
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Facebook and Youtube Banned For Polish Police
From Yahoo.com WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s national police headquarters has banned officers from using a popular social networking site similar to Facebook because they were spending too much time using it, a newspaper said Monday. “Like many firms, we decided the site Nasza-klasa.pl is not essential for our employees to fulfill their professional duties,” the [...]
silive.com: Elaine R. Bellamy-Noseworthy is a wife, the mother of two young children — and an inventor. While growing up in Annadale, she could not have possibly considered the creation of her now patent-pending baby-bottle holder because she simply had no need for it. The plastic Bottle Buggy is like an extra set of hands [...]
Gingerly Dressed Celebrates Open House, Entrepreneurs
Blount Today: Ginger Pettit opened the doors of her fairly new shop last month for a special Open House to celebrate the entrepreneurs who make her business different. Gingerly Dressed, located on Gill Street in Alcoa, hosted an evening for moms and dads who love something a little different to come and meet designers and [...]
Tapping The Creativity Of Downtime
The Wall Street Journal: In its early days, Chris Wallace’s company didn’t always have enough work to keep its staff fully occupied designing interactive Web sites for clients. But it didn’t want to lose any talent. So he and his co-founders decided to tell employees they could pursue their own interests in their downtime, doing [...]
Moms Can Have It All – They Just Can't Do It All
MSNBC: The mom entrepreneur needs to work smarter. It’s not enough to get things done. You need to get the right things done. A very small part of what you do will have a profound impact on your family or your business. So take an inventory of everything that needs to get done and commit [...]
How many women have spent time driving themselves crazy over things like their weight, how much they eat, counting calories, and all those other self-esteem killers? There are 2 women in particular, Sarah and Amanda, that have been there and done that. When one of them were thinking about having a child, they didn’t want [...]
Commercial-News: Monica Williams, a medical doctor, can now add to her accomplishments a pending patent for an invention called Pacimals — stuffed animals with built-in pacifiers. Her invention came about less than two years ago, when her then-2-month-old daughter, Mackenzie Smith, gave her an idea. Monica had first noticed in the hospital that nurses would [...]
Why You Should Start Your Own Biz Today
Success Magazine: John was 53 when the bad news hit. His department was being moved offshore. Since joining the company eight years earlier, he had worked his way up to a solid position in middle management with a decent salary and great benefits. Now, he was out of a job. Having spent his entire adult [...]
Asking Prices For Small Bizs On Decline
The Dallas Morning News: To all the usual reasons that small businesses are put up for sale – personal problems and personnel squabbles among them – add economic woes this year. But even as for-sale listings rise around the country, so is buyer interest. “When economic times get tough and people can’t find a job, [...]
Firearm Storage Is Made For All Gun Owners
Gun safety is something that gets discussed a lot, whether is locally or nationally. Those who have guns or use them want to make sure they will remain safe. Whether it’s in a home with little fingers, or safe from potential theft. Don Graham took his own needs and was able to formulate a gun [...]
The New York Times: To go shopping these days, more Americans are trading in their car keys for a keyboard. Online shopping is gaining at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a spending spree. A number of retailers — including Gap, Victoria’s Secret and [...]
Dorm-Room Bizs That Made It Big
College Startup: Your laptop is your shop. You store your inventory in your dorm room. You cooked up your idea in your backyard. Or the basement. It’s a tiny endeavor, yes. You may not know where it’ll end up when college is done. Not for sure, anyway. But students like you became Silicon Valley’s most [...]
NorthBay Nugget: Persistence is the key to succeeding as a young entrepreneur, says Christian Prost, owner of the Northriders bike store. Prost started his business at the King Street Plaza three years ago with help from the Canadian Youth Business Foundation. “My, what a scary feeling it was,” Prost said, remembering the anxiety of taking [...]
People who love feet will love Foot Solutions and their franchise opportunity. Certified by Board Certified Pedorthists (BCP), franchisees are also given the exam to make sure their own businesses stay BCP as well. The products are attractive to all kinds of people, creating a large potential customer base in many areas. They do not [...]
A picture framing business that has gained media coverage by giving customers a free orange is being used to help entrepreneurs throughout the world understand how they can improve their PR presence. Martin Tracy, owner of The Framing Workshop juices the oranges for his own drinks since he avoids tea or coffee. So he put [...]
Invention Promises Cleaner Food
WBAY-TV: Despite the government giving consumers the okay to eat tomatoes, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are calling for tougher oversight when it comes to food safety. The initiative follows what health experts call the worst case of food-borne illness in a decade. The reality of tainted food prompted a Green Bay company to invent a [...]
Fix It Up. Flip It. Now It’s Web Sites, Not Houses
The New York Times: Dave Hermansen did not own a bird or a cage when he bought bird-cage.com, an online store, for $1,800 three years ago. He simply saw a Web site that was “very, very poorly done,” and begged the owners to sell it to him. He then redesigned the site, added advertising and [...]
Amazon Unveils New Web Site Payment Services
AppScout: Amazon unveiled two new payment options that allow Web site owners to shift payment transactions to the online retailer. With Checkout by Amazon, webmasters will get help from Amazon in managing shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including shipments, refunds, cancellations, and charge backs. Amazon Simple Pay, meanwhile, is a less complicated [...]
