Archive for August 26th, 2008
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 [...]
