Archive for September 2008
Nicole L.V. Mullis: Being A Stay-At-Home Mom, Writer Calls For Balance
BattleCreekEnquirer.com: The topic involved my youngest entering first grade and people asking if I’m going back to work. In my first draft, I defended my job as a stay-at-home mom. I laundry-listed my responsibilities in what I hoped was a clever fashion and pointed out this work didn’t end because my youngest is seven. Then [...]
Working From Home: Local Female Entrepreneurs Blend Business With Their Passion
jconline.com: Rhea Nowling, BeautiControl senior sales director Rhea Nowling has been selling BeautiControl personalized skin care products for 27 years. “What we do is bring the spa into the home,” she said. She was introduced to the products at a BeautiControlparty and said she fell in love with how her skin felt, “I thought this [...]
When someone is looking for a car repair shop, they are looking for a place which will be honest about the repair needs on the vehicle and will offer the repairs at the lowest cost possible. So, how about a business with the word ‘honest’ in their name? Honest-1 Auto Care is committed to giving [...]
Pool Owner Invents ‘Critter Skimmer’
Seacoastonline.com: Brian Meagher, like many in-ground pool owners, had grown accustomed to finding anywhere from 50 to 100 dead frogs in his skimmer basket every season. However, last summer, armed with only a dremel tool, Meagher modified his skimmer cover to include a spiral escape ramp that hangs down just beneath the water, which provides [...]
Going From Hobby To Business Savvy
The Register-Guard: Life is sweet when you can turn a hobby into a successful business, and perhaps doubly so when your product tastes good with peanut butter. That’s how it is for several home-based Lane County businesses that make, among other things, jams and jellies from local fruit or who harvest honey from their own [...]
Unbreakable Wooden Bat Latest Creation By Inventor
The Associated Press: A New Jersey inventor says he has come up with a way to take that aluminum “ping” out of youth baseball and the broken bat out of the national pastime, while making the game a little safer with every swing. It’s the unbreakable wooden bat, at least one that is guaranteed for [...]
Local Startup Hops On Video Resume Bandwagon
HartfordBusiness.com: Putting their best face forward, an increasing number of job candidates are applying for jobs by e-mailing prospective employers a video resume. It’s a trend that is gaining in popularity. A year ago, YouTube counted about 1,700 resumes; it now counts nearly 29,000. A Rocky Hill startup wants to jump on the video resume [...]
Recharging Your Batteries For Fall
Rhonda Abrams At Gannett News Services: Yikes! Where did summer go? It seems like — suddenly — it’s once again Fall, and time to get back to work. Fall is a critical time for most companies. Other businesses — your clients and customers — are ready to once again pay attention to work. In my [...]
With the slogan, “Coaching. Not just for sports.”, ActionCOACH has grown to become the #1 business coaching firm in the world. They currently have over 1000 offices within 26 different countries where they are able to coach as many businesses as needed to help them reach the success they are looking for. Of course, if [...]
A quick look around your home might lead you to believe it’s clean, but there is a good chance you might be wrong. Homes are full of allergens and many other contaminates. The Hygienic Home is a green business which will come into a home and thoroughly clean it using only eco-friendly products. Some of [...]
CafeMom.com To Launch Unprecedented $10 Million Nationwide Schools Initiative
dBusinessNews: CafeMom, the largest and fastest growing online community site for moms, is enlisting moms across the country as part of an initiative to donate up to ten million dollars to support schools nationwide. CafeMom is launching over 100,000 school groups so that all of the K-12 schools nationwide are represented on the site. Moms [...]
Mother Of 3 Keeps Agency And Travelers On Right Course
montgomeryadvertiser.com: Liz Sutton has successfully guided Alabama World Travel (AWT) by staying ahead of changes in the travel industry. She has altered the focus of the business twice, and just this summer the agency became part of a new program. AWT is one of 300 services worldwide, and only two in Alabama, that will be [...]
Mother & Daughter Design Kids Clothing
aikenstandard.com: A local mother and daughter have turned their talents into a booming business. Carole Carver and her daughter Melissa Bryan began sewing together several years ago. The pair have created and designed everything from handbags and headbands to dresses and pants. Earlier this year they decided to name their growing business Palmetto Cuties and, [...]
Is Your Idea Already Patented? Patents.com Will Tell You.
All great inventions start as an idea, but how many of those ideas have already been patented and have started to take form? Not all ideas are unique, but when you have one it is important to make sure to get the right paperwork done so your idea won’t be stolen by the next person [...]
The Washington Post: A former high school football player, Billy Mays dropped out of West Virginia University and worked for his father’s hazardous-waste trucking company. In 1983, he ran into a high school friend who was heading to Atlantic City to sell Ginsu knives on the boardwalk, then the pitchman capital of the United States. [...]
The Wall Street Journal: Last fall, South Dakota businessman Steve Polley was scouting for ways to make some extra income when he saw a news headline: The price of hops was surging because of a global shortage. At the time, Polley knew little about hops, the flowering plants that give beers their distinct aromas and [...]
Fortune Small Business: Are you getting enough sleep? For years, Cynthia McKay wasn’t. McKay, CEO of Le Gourmet Gift Basket, a specialty-foods company based in Castle Rock, Colo., spent most of every night wide awake with her mind racing – “mostly due to the stress of business ownership and jet lag,” she says. She managed [...]
Cashing In: Adding Real Names To Sports Games
ars technica: Creating a truly authentic experience when playing video games based on the National Collegiate Athletics Association’s leagues is a daunting task for the average gamer. The NCAA doesn’t allow games to feature the names or likenesses of any of its student-athletes; in-game characters will be the spitting image of real-world players but feature [...]
Can You Take Your Biz On The Road With You?
The Wall Street Journal: Can’t tear yourself away from work for a vacation this summer? Consider bringing your business with you, says Jeff Zbar, who has spent the past six summers traveling the U.S. with his family, working on the road. “A lot of people think they can’t take a vacation,” says Zbar, a free-lance [...]
TheWestonForum.com: Liz Waltzman of Weston has launched Bibliotechies.com, a new online book recommendation site for children, young adults, and their parents. Bibliotechies has partnered with Amazon, which will provide direct link and purchase options to age and interest-specific book suggestions throughout the site. Bibliotechies, geared toward a broad range of young readers (Infants to 15), [...]
Burbank Leader: Simply the mention of new business West Coast Wagons made Brad Pitt stop dead in his tracks. The custom-made trendy wagons for kids, started by Tiffany and Duane Nelson in 2003, just opened in Burbank. But it already has a long list of celebrity clients, such as movie stars Tom Cruise and Cate [...]
Mom Made Diaper Caddy Organizes Baby Business
How often do you stay in one room at all times? Chances are you move around, and you need those diapers where ever it is you are when it’s time for a changing. The SaraBear Company has you covered. These diaper caddies are designed for all of your diapering needs in one portable basket. From [...]
Card Exchange Business Comes To The Rescue For Those Looking To Buy Or Sell
If you were to look in your wallet, how many unused gift cards would you find? It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what to do with them or if you like to use them at your favorite stores, Gift Card Rescue.com is determined to help. For those that are interested in getting money for [...]
Housewife Sells Sticky Tape ‘End Finder’ Invention
Daily Mail Reporter: It’s an age old problem, trying to find the end of sticky tape. But one Norfolk housewife has invented a DIY device to help solve the common frustration – and little did she know it could earn her a small fortune. For 10 years, Sarah Thorp, 48, has been using a baby [...]
Get Paid For Input On New Products
Springwise: RedesignMe, a Dutch company announced a new program by which users of the site get paid for their input on new products. How it works: product manufacturers pay RedesignMe to establish “RDM Challenges,” through which a new product concept is presented and the site’s 1,000 or so active members are asked to react to [...]
The Wall Street Journal: In late 2005, the night manager of a suburban Atlanta restaurant called owner J.D. Clockdale to boast about how well she had handled an irate female customer. The customer “ranted and raved” about a botched order, but calmed down after the manager gave her a free meal, Clockdale recalls being told. [...]
Entrepreneur’s Tide Comes In With Beach Souvenirs
JournalSentinel.com: The little souvenir bottle filled with seashells and sand that you brought back to Milwaukee from Sanibel Island may have made a round trip. That’s because your keepsake, which evokes memories of golden days on the beach, could have been made by Visionary Products, a Glendale company that does a million-dollar business in beach [...]
Yes, An Entrepreneur Can Take A One-Month Vacation
Start Up Blog: I just got back from a one-month vacation in Sicily. You may ask how I did this. Isn’t it hard to own a company and take time off? Don’t you worry about everything going to heck while you’re away? Not for me. Why? One thing: An awesome team. The talent, skill, intelligence [...]
How many families do you think have a Mr. Fix-It already living there? There is a good chance there are less of those households than you’d think. For little things that may happen around the house, that Mr. Fix-it can come in handy. Those without one can call Handyman Connection. Those who own a home [...]
Little Baby Hugz Needs Votes For Mom Entrepreneur Of The Year
Prince George Citizen: After launching and expanding their successful business, Kristi Wintemute and Laura Cameron now have a taste for growing even bigger. They perceived a need for quality baby products and created Little Baby Hugz…Mom & Baby Necessities, which specializes in products which help new mothers. Their product lines are sold in Prince George [...]
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 [...]
ScrapBiz Helps Women Get Into The Scrapbook Business
When you’re looking for a way to preserve your memories there are more than enough options to choose from, the real trick is finding the one you like most. Scrapbooking is one of the more popular forms of preserving memories that is available. Of course, not everyone is into the traditional form which is why [...]
ScrapBiz Helps Women Get Into The Scrapbook Business
When you’re looking for a way to preserve your memories there are more than enough options to choose from, the real trick is finding the one you like most. Scrapbooking is one of the more popular forms of preserving memories that is available. Of course, not everyone is into the traditional form which is why [...]
History: As the Industrial Revolution took hold of the nation, the average American in the late 1800s worked 12-hour days, seven days a week in order to make a basic living. Children were also working, as they provided cheap labor to employers and laws against child labor were not strongly enforced. With the long hours [...]
