Archive for July 2008
CardCaddie Vehicle Outdoor Business Card Holders
Have you ever come across a vehicle attractively wrapped in advertising for a service that you wanted to remember, but later forgot their name? Derek Slocum thinks he’s solved the problem with CardCaddie Vechicle Outdoor Business Card Holders. While exploring advertising options for his notary service, he attached a plastic business card holder to his [...]
If you have a restaurant, you’re missing out on a lot of toddler-directed business if you don’t have crayons. When we’re choosing a family friendly place to eat, we’ll always go with the place with crayons over a restaurant without.
Your Business Is Already on the Internet, Whether You Put it There or Not
Many small businesses believe that they don’t need a website. They incorrectly assume that since their business is face to face that they don’t need to bother. Unfortunately, as this article by Malcolm Sheppard on PC4Media explains, chances are that they’re already on the internet, and that someone else is controlling their identity and message: [...]
Opening their doors for the first time in 1990, Baja Fresh has been offering Mexican food that can be enjoyed by everyone while turning away from the manor of fast food. They offer over 40 items on their menu with everything made-to-order. There are no microwaves or lard found here. The food they offer is [...]
Concierge Opens In New Southern
The Jackson Sun: Heather Morrow, owner of Concierge, believes that not only has the time for her business arrived, but that she has the perfect location for it as well. “What better place than the front of an old hotel,” Morrow, 37, said of her storefront located off the lobby of the New Southern Hotel [...]
New Lenox Mom's Calling Is Chocolate
The Herald News: For the first time in her life, Mary Ruane is experiencing the sweet smell of success. She spends her days at Claire’s Candies, crafting rich and creamy peanut butter cups, gooey caramel clusters and a wide variety of specialty candies in shapes designed to celebrate holidays and special events. If you need [...]
Tragedy Inspires Mom To Brighten The Lives Of Sick Children
Montgomery Newspapers: After her family’s 14-year fight with childhood cancer, Tammy Creciun-Virgilio, Telford, lost her daughter Britiani to the disease that had dominated so much of her young life. Although Creciun-Virgilio was crushed by Britiani’s passing, she has continued her fight, and today is doing everything she can to help other families dealing with the [...]
Mom Helps Others Survive Dinner Time
How many times have you found yourself standing at the fridge, looking in, wondering what you are going to make for supper? Most likely you’ve done that at least once. Heather Corbin came from a family of cooks. So it’s pretty easy to say she knew a thing or two about food. If she ever [...]
Sun-Sentinel: When Judy Schaum realized she was in a constant struggle between her schedule at work and her children’s extracurricular schedules, she decided it was time to reinvent the wheel. Stealing away to get her three kids to various venues for a soccer practice or other activity was wearing on her and her husband — [...]
Do You Have The Courage To Be Extraordinary?
GetEntrepreneurial.com: At a recent networking meeting, I had the opportunity to hear Pernille Spiers-Lopez speak. Danish born, Pernille immigrated to the United States about 26 years ago as a young woman. After a few jobs that didn’t pan out for her, she found herself working in the Marketplace at Ikea, an international home furnishings retail [...]
Entrepreneurs Reinvent Funeral Industry
BusinessWeek: These trailblazers come from all sorts of businesses—automotive, design, technology—unburdened by the conventions of their new industry. They introduce products some consider shocking. Traditionalists scoff at them. But these outsiders are revolutionizing one of the world’s oldest professions: the funeral industry. It’s a good time to deal in death. The first baby boomers are [...]
Classics Are Customized For Women At AprilMarin
Every woman is built differently. That is why no one shirt or pair of pants will fit the same for each person. Buying off the rack may be convenient, but that comes with a price. Off the rack does not give most women the fitted comfort they all deserve. Partnering up in business, April and [...]
Just Make Money Online: If you’re wondering how you can monetise Facebook, then here are some ideas for you – 1. Find new business clients. Whether you’re a consultant, a writer, a photographer, an illustrator, or any other kind of freelance or online business worker, you can find new clients using this popular social networking [...]
GetEntrepreneurial.com: In the business world, it pays to listen and know how to ask the right questions. Miscommunication and misunderstanding can lead to problems… unhappy customers, lost sales, excess inventory, misunderstood instructions, shoddy work, and disgruntled employees … all influencing your company’s bottom line. A good listener can build trust, empathy, and understanding by practicing [...]
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. [...]
