Archive for August 13th, 2008
Mom and Daughter Cook Up New Concept in Real Estate Marketing
CommercialAppeal.com: If the kitchen is the heart of any home, real estate agent and television producer Karen Moore figured why not showcase it when trying to make a sale? So Moore and her daughter, Aryen Moore-Alston, an actress and avid cook, designed a 30-minute television program that’s part cooking show, part home tour and all [...]
Hard-Working Marietta Mom's One-Time Home Business is Really Cooking First Book Set for Release
PR Web: She took the heat, stayed in the kitchen and now, 18 years later, Johnnie Gabriel is enjoying the sweet taste of success. In the midst of tough times and an economic downturn nationally in 1990, Gabriel and her husband Ed lost everything but their home. It was there that they began baking cakes [...]
NewsHerald.com: Kim Hudlow does not look like your average crime fighter, but last week the 5-foot tall mother of three helped stop a crime wave. Hudlow said she has been the victim of theft twice in the last three years, and each time, she solved the crime and made sure the suspects were arrested. Four [...]
MyWares Connects Women With A Way To Sell
It’s not always easy to get a start when opening up business. There are so many women interested in opening shop but they’re not all that sure how to do so. Going online may be an option, but that doesn’t mean the products will sell themselves. At MyWares many women are finding wholesale purchasers for [...]
Don Pablo Brings The Cafe Into Your Home
Each brand of coffee brings something different in taste or style. Burke Brand Coffee offers it’s own style and special traits that those big box coffees don’t. Many of us only ever think about coffee as what we find in our local café or what we purchase in the coffee isle of our local store. [...]
Does It Shout “Franchise Me!”?
Open Forum: Your cash register is ringing. You added 2 more employees last month. Your second location is almost ready for a full time manager. Your regular customers are asking you when you’re going to “franchise” your business. Should you? I get my share of calls from small business owners who feel that they are [...]
Niche Farming Offers Way Back To Land
The New York Times: Starting a small farm can pay rich dividends, especially if the farm produces niche foods like artisanal cheeses or truffles. But don’t quit your day job. Sarah Beth Aubrey took that advice several years ago, after, she says, she “got sick of driving to work.” She succumbed to an entrepreneurial itch [...]
My Small Business: Fiona Gathercole and Jenny Menz became determined to parlay their enjoyable hobby into a lifestyle change, particularly as children came onto the scene. Established in 2006, thewallstickercompany.com.au offers a range of wall sticker designs that can be ordered online, or customised, to add a “wow” factor everywhere from children’s rooms to cafes [...]
Inventor Sees Future In Talking Labels
Pacific Business News: Frustrated with the task of hand-labeling piles of photographs, Ken Berkun decided to create a solution — a talking label. Berkun, 52, founded Labels That Talk three years ago out of his Kailua home on Oahu. He says his product, called , is less than a year away from being on craft [...]
Boston Herald: In a world increasingly reliant on high-tech gadgets that have become the new appendages, Jack Cribbs’ WristWriter invention is decidedly low-tech. “I labeled it early on as a CDA: a caveman digital assistant,” he said. Cribbs markets the WristWriter as a “tool belt for the wrist.” It has a scroll-able writing surface that [...]
Sometimes Less (Revenue) Is More
Inc.: Q: My home-based design business sells store fixtures and related equipment to the retailers we work with. I try to operate on a 25% to 30% gross margin, but I don’t know if that’s appropriate. I always wonder how much more revenue we could get if we charged less? A: You’re wondering about the [...]
