Archive for August 2008
If your garage is anything like most of the other garages in America, then I would almost bet it’s a mess. Maybe it’s so unorganized that you can’t even fit your car in it. That’s a part of life. Things get collected and put away leaving it to just build up over time until you [...]
Iowa Moms Share Everyday Experiences Through Blogs
Nonpareil Online: Community is defined as a group of interacting people living in a common location and has become a well-known, often-used word in the 21st century. Community of believers. Community service. Living community. Community center. With the help of the Internet, a new kind of community is quickly emerging, no longer confining community to [...]
'Beddbuggs' Business Booms For Local Woman
The Whig Standard: When Alison Turnbull-Smith’s children suffered growing pains a few years ago, she fabricated some homemade hot bags to ease their discomfort. “They were always wanting a hot water bottle and some of them would leak or be messy,” said Turnbull-Smith, owner of BeddBudds BeddBuggs. A mother of five children, she stitched hot [...]
PR Free: When Michelle Aarnes and her husband decided to start a family, Aarnes knew she wanted to work from home. The thought of leaving a newborn in someone else’s care was unbearable. And as a former Sales Assistant who had worked twelve years for a well-known financial management company, sales – which might seem [...]
No matter where you go or what channel you watch on TV, there are endless commercials for women’s products. Where as most people wouldn’t blink an eye, some men would have to wonder, “What about me?” Joe Rowett is the Managing Director for Man Junk, a business dedicated to men’s products. Their organic body wash [...]
Inventions That Make Life Easier… or Not
Daily Cognition: Lock Cup – Anti-Theft Coffee Cup Are you tired of others stealing your coffee cup? Well now there’s a solution. The Lock – Cup has a hole which prevents most people from using it. Only the owner of the cup can use his/hers shaped key to close the hole. “The Zaky” – Infant [...]
8 Skills They Didn’t Teach You In School
LifeHack: Lately, I’ve been simultaneously using less and less of what I learned in school while discovering more and more skills that are vital to success which were never even offered in school! So what are the top skills that should be taught to every man, woman, and child who enters our education system? • [...]
Worcester News: A Malvern-born inventor is celebrating after his company received a £200,000 investment from the Dragon’s Den TV show. Guy Unwin presented Toastabags, as well as a number of other innovative cookwear products, with partner Caroline Kavanagh on the BBC 2 show. Unwin, who is managing director and chief inventor of Planit Products, based [...]
Mailbox Does More Than Hold Letters
WYFF4: If you watched Chet Brannon get his mail at his home in Simpsonville, you’d never know there was anything special about his mailbox. But it’s mostly unlike any mailbox you have ever seen. “This is called the Home Emergency Lamp Post,” said Brannon standing next to his mailbox. “The acronym is HELP so it’s [...]
More than 150 billion SPAM messages circulate daily, accounting for more than 85 percent of the total number of emails sent throughout the world. The sheer volume of spam consumes an enormous amount of bandwidth and remains one of the Internet’s biggest security problems. Often these goods are pirated, counterfeit, or cheap knock-offs that would [...]
No matter where you live, there are people interested in an indoor tanning facility that they can use to get their own “perfect” tan. That’s what keeps franchises like Hollywood Tans in business. It helps that they’ve also been named as the “Top Tanning Salon Franchise” by Entrepreneur Magazine. By using their proven system and [...]
Mom Inspired By Grandmother’s Encouragement And Love of Education Creates Online Study Site
DawsonTimes.com: For the last thirteen years, Forsyth County resident, Julie Wilson has been fortunate to have been a stay-at-home mom, thanks to her husband, Denny’s, entrepreneurial knack for building successful businesses. Although Julie hasn’t been part of the workforce, per se, in many years, she has worked diligently at raising the couples’ two children, taking [...]
How Fast They Grow Announces Holiday Gift Card Design
Today, How Fast They Grow announces its all new HOLIDAY GIFT CARD. Like prior gift card offerings, it is one of the most elaborate and elegant gift cards available. “When people receive our gift cards, they are amazed. Our gift cards are works of art in their own right. We took our cues from retailers [...]
Night Helper Looks For Prototype Investment Assistance
There are two very important aspects to starting a business: money and motivation. You may have only one, but your idea is nothing without the other. Night Helper is a watch designed by a Lisa Charleston, and her husband. Lisa is not just a mom but also a grandmother and a health care worker. She’s [...]
Video Sales Agent Fills Niche In The Real Estate Business
In real estate, the best way to sell a home is by presenting it in the best possible light. So why not make it through video? Video can offer one of the best views of a home that someone might be interested in purchasing before physically driving there. It is Video Sales Agent that has [...]
60th Anniversary Kid Inventor Contest
PRNewswire: WHAM-O, Inc., announced that John Bisbal III of East Northport, New York is the winner of the company’s 60th Anniversary Kid Inventor Contest. In saluting WHAM-O’s storied, and sometimes “zany,” history of redefining fun with off-the-wall toys and imaginative inventions, WHAM-O’s Kid Inventor Contest encouraged kids between the ages of 6-17 to tinker, test, [...]
MarcandAngel.com: What most people don’t realize is that you never really work for anyone but yourself. The only question is: What are you selling, and to whom? Even when you have a full time, salaried, “Corporate America” position, you are still running your own business. You are selling one unit of your existence (an hour [...]
Standard-Freeholder: Jana Miller likes to keep busy. This summer she was able to accomplish that by starting her own business, Fresh Lunch Ideas, as part of the Ontario Ministry of Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s Summer Company program. The program provides a $1,500 start-up grant for young business owners, and offers workshops on how to be [...]
Credit Cards Replace Small Biz Loans
BusinessWeek: The 30% interest rate on their small business credit card shocked James and Heather Hills enough to stop using it entirely in April. The couple had turned to credit cards in early 2006 to get their Elgin (Ill.) startup, mhn Internet Marketing and PR, off the ground, after three loan officers told them that [...]
Simple Ways to Super Charge Your Brain
Dumb Little Man: No matter how powerful our brains are, they need recuperation time, to be kept in shape, and even an occasional charge. Think of it as a tune up for your brain. Skipping brain maintenance is as silly as the person wandering the parking garage because they forgot where they parked. Here are [...]
Website Aids In The Online Bookselling Business
When you’re looking for a business to start, the book business probably isn’t the first business that comes to mind. With the growth in technology and the many attempts that have been made to wipe out the old fashioned book, nothing can seem to replace it. That is what makes the business so great to [...]
If you love sports and you love photography, then you’ve got the mindset needed to go after a potentially profitable business opportunity! All you really need now is the right equipment and motivation to go after that dream. SportMatrix can’t get you the equipment but they can give you the platform you need to get [...]
Niche Web Links 100s Of Employers And 1000s Of Women
The Seattle Times: Shannon Davis was at home with two small children when a nagging thought just wouldn’t go away: There has to be a better way for stay-at-home moms to leverage their skills and still be around for their children. Davis, of University Heights, Ohio, never wanted to be an entrepreneur. She just wanted [...]
How To Make Working From Home Work For Moms
tampabay.com: For Mommas, the idea of working from home seems ideal, but be careful what you wish for. Working from home is not a substitute for child care. I work at home a few hours a day several days a week and can tell you that I get a lot more done in the office [...]
As any new parent knows, it can be nearly impossible to figure out which products are a must and what is a waste when purchasing baby products. There is just too much to choose from. Kimberly Shore Levin of Nursery Know-It-All can tell you all about it. As the mom of 3 children under the [...]
As any new parent knows, it can be nearly impossible to figure out which products are a must and what is a waste when purchasing baby products. There is just too much to choose from. Kimberly Shore Levin of Nursery Know-It-All can tell you all about it. As the mom of 3 children under the [...]
How many times have you walked along on a sidewalk and came close to tripping over a raised cracked area? As time passes cement can settle causing these cracks to happen. When it does, there is an option that can actually save you money without having to replace the whole broken section. At Green Concrete [...]
Not only a national brand, Gymboree Play & Music opens up a way for parent and baby to bond, have fun and educate. They also offer franchises through out the US and internationally. Anyone interested in a franchise of this kind can feel good knowing they are able to make a profit while offering something [...]
We Created An Internet Startup
Business Wire: One hundred people with diverse backgrounds gathered together at the University of Cincinnati with one common goal in mind–to create a new Internet start-up company in one weekend. The participants ranged from students and corporate employees who wanted to learn the skills involved in creating a start-up to entrepreneurial veterans who wanted to [...]
Pioneer Press: Ever since there have been family farms, there have been farm families with small side businesses. Whether it’s selling fresh eggs or honeycomb, sweet corn or seed, these microbusinesses provide a little extra income — and some other benefits besides. Today that tradition lives on, most visibly in roadside stands and farmers markets. [...]
One Chic Mama Helps Moms Stay Hip
CarolinaNewswire.com: With twenty years of experience in the realm of fashion, Mary Michele Little announces the launch of One Chic Mama, a personal image consulting business geared towards moms, moms-to-be or any woman who wants to upgrade their look or make a fashion change. Michele is excited to use her extensive knowledge of style and [...]
Should My Biz Have A Toll-Free Number?
AllBusiness.com: Consider getting a toll-free number for your small business. These numbers can be a powerful sales and marketing tool. Consumer research shows: • Customers are much more likely to call a business with a toll-free number than a business with a long-distance number. • Toll-free numbers boost consumer confidence. Consumers assume that businesses with [...]
Telecommuters Get No Lovin’ From Their ISPs
Los Angeles Times: Gas prices are soaring, roads are congested and you’ve gotten kind of hooked on Days of Our Lives. Sounds like it’s time to telecommute. But good luck trying to use your virtual private network, or VPN, while sending e-mail and surfing the Web. According to a Forrester Research study released Wednesday, telecommunication [...]
From Brazil To Michigan Truffle Business
MLive.com: The gene that motivates a person to run a business must run in families. If you don’t think so, consider the Eggers family. Daniela Eggers and her sister, Leticia Eggers Burmann, recently started a new business, but it’s not the first for either of them. They say this business, Chocolate Gourmet Truffles, offers “the [...]
Mom's Lipstick Line A Kiss From Mother Nature
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Beauty and business are passions of Kristen Null-Croner. Now, the Monroeville mom has combined them in a new line of lip products. But they aren’t your usual pucker products. The 20 lipsticks and glosses in her Marina Cosmetics line harness the power of sea life to hydrate, nourish and color the kissers. Conscious [...]
New Product Provides Portable Safe Environment for Children 6-18 Months
PR Web: If a safe environment is important to you and your child; and if you could merely collapse that environment and take it with you wherever you go, the new PopATot from Kiddy Creations may be the solution you’ve been waiting for. Every mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, and child care professional will want to [...]
JUST IN CASE is Just The Case For Sex Safety
If you feel inspired by some of the great mom owned businesses out there, then you’ll really enjoy learning from the experiences of this Mother/Daughter owned one. They fill a unique niche for women that might not have previously been considered: fancy cases that resemble a compact and hide a condom within. I’m especially amazed [...]
Inventor Uses Momentum To Save Gas
If you drive a car, then you already know how high those gas prices have gotten for everyone and the need to find a way to reduce those costs is extremely important. All too often magic potions and parts that we’re supposed to add to our car and reduce the fuel consumption pop up in [...]
Mom Hopes Her Invention Makes Mark
Deseret News: Rebecca Davidson didn’t set out to be an inventor or an entrepreneur. She just wanted to stop throwing away dried-out markers every two weeks. So she designed the Cap Trapper — her answer for missing marker lids, children putting caps in their mouths and dried-out pens that are good for nothing else but [...]
Plastic Playhouses A Hit For Entrepreneur
Great Falls Tribune: Candy Maxwell manufactures and markets Candy’s Colorland products from her Cascade home. The products are made of lightweight plastic, which can be colored on and then erased. The products are manufactured using laser-cutters and silk-screen machines. All of the playhouses are different, but they also can be hooked together. “Kids can add [...]
Matching Women’s Skills With Employers’ Needs
The Plain Dealer: Shannon Davis was at home with two small children when a nagging thought just wouldn’t go away: There has to be a better way for stay-at-home moms to leverage their skills and still be around for their children. Davis never wanted to be an entrepreneur. She just wanted to do something that [...]
Husband-&-Wife Share Secrets To Building Thriving Biz
NewsBlaze: In today’s society, many husbands and wives are also married to their careers, which can make it difficult to maintain a healthy and happy marriage. Other married couples, like Luke and Maisie Knowles, combine work life and home life as husband-and-wife entrepreneurs. The co-founders of FreeShipping.org, a one-stop destination for consumers to find online [...]
Learn Steps Needed To Make Change
Rhonda Abrams At Gannett News Service: I once saw a handwritten note over a jar for tips: “If you fear change, leave it here.” To some extent, we all fear change. Yet, to survive in business (as in all of life) we have to learn how to change — and be willing and able to [...]
Sun.Star Davao: ONE of a mother’s most valuable experiences is the wonderful opportunity to provide vital nourishment to her precious child through breastfeeding. Admittedly, it is not an effortless task with the sleepless nights, feelings of inadequacy and frustration and the myriad of sacrifices one has to make to be able to breastfeed successfully. As [...]
New Club Opened By Aspired Entrepreneur
MassLive: Sonya G. MacPhail likes live music, lives in Belchertown and was frustrated at having to drive 30 minutes or more to hear bands play at a club. So she is opening the Black Moon, a music lounge at 37 State St., and planning on live music seven nights a week. “I decided I would [...]
shreveporttimes.com: The constant hum of the sewing machines from a workroom at the rear of her shop, Moms 2 Bee, provides a gentle reminder to Cheryl Evans of how far she has come. The pile of orders ready to be shipped doesn’t faze her. Neither does the ringing of the telephone. Clerk Emily Brown and [...]
Entrepreneur Reinvents Taking a Nap
CNN Money: How much would you pay for a nap? For entrepreneur Nicholas Ronco, that’s a million-dollar question, with the fate of his 18-month-old business hanging on the answer. Yelo is tucked away in a nondescript storefront on West 57th Street, a busy industrial stretch of Manhattan’s midtown. But step inside, and you can leave [...]
Inc.com: When Teresa Vidger, President and CEO of Temporary Housing Directory, started her business in 2001, it was out of personal necessity, rather than personal passion. Previously, she had worked at Destination Connection, Coldwell Banker’s leasing division for six years. She spent six days per week finding housing for corporate clients preparing to relocate, driving [...]
Business Freshens Up Sports Gear Effectively
If you’ve ever been near someone who plays a sport after the game is over, then you know that smell of dirt and sweat that is all over them. As bad as it smells, the germs hiding within any padding and clothing can be the real problem. By using a Fresh Gear machine, these important [...]
QuickBooks Online Gives You More Mobile Mojo
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Aug. 25, 2008 – Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) today announced both iPhone and BlackBerry integration with QuickBooks®Online, the leading Web-based small business accounting software. Now the more than 130,000 small businesses that subscribe to QuickBooks Online have even more freedom to manage their business anywhere, anytime – with or without a [...]
