Archive for October 9th, 2008
Product Makes Your Wishes Take Flight
People have wished on stars, or made a wish before blowing out a candle, but now they can say they have lit their wish on fire and watched it float up into the sky. Well, if they have tried out Julia Lambie’s Flying Wish Paper they can! The potential that this simple invention holds is [...]
TheRecord.com: A new parent is usually occupied with thoughts of sleepless nights and diaper changes. Agata Majerski was thinking about a business opportunity. Majerski was pregnant with her first son while she studied biology and chemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. She began thinking about the type of stroller she wanted, but found they [...]
Party Fun For The Children In Knoxville, Tennessee
When starting a business, most people end up going into debt and gradually building their way out. It was the complete opposite for Marie and Maged Abdu. The parents of 5 children, they knew exactly what it was like throwing fun birthday parties that would be memorable. Little did they know that Marie’s love of [...]
5 Tips To Help You Save Money With Your New Business
By the time you are ready to open for business, there is a good chance you have spent nearly double what you had originally budgeted. That may be the unfortunate reality of going into business for yourself, but there are ways to curb some of those fees. 1. Free resources. In my experience I have [...]
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money #17
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum. Part 17 Advertise Your Business We all depend, more or less, upon the public for our support. We all trade with the public–lawyers, doctors, shoemakers, artists, blacksmiths, showmen, opera singers, railroad presidents, and college professors. [...]
Entrepreneurs Struggle To Hang On
USA TODAY: If there is a rock and a hard place in the U.S. economy, small businesses are there. Right in that little crevice where money is tight — and getting tighter. Right where weekly payrolls can be financed only by personal credit cards or home equity loans. And right where “income” for the boss [...]
YoungEntrepreneur.com: The average customer visits their local Costco 22 times a year. The company has become one of the largest in the U.S., with 473 outlets and more than $50 billion in sales, and is also the largest membership warehouse club chain in the world. Its founder and CEO, Jim Sinegal, has been called the [...]
Attending The Needs Of The Too-Busy
The New York Times: When you think of high-end concierge services, the world’s most exclusive hotels come to mind, not Google’s corporate offices in Mountain View, Calif. But that is where Ginger Franke, the founder of Franke Lifestyle Management, better known as FLM, a concierge service catering to Silicon Valley’s elite, cut her teeth. For [...]
USA TODAY: Entrepreneur James Park’s new gizmo can monitor sleep habits and daily exercise, automatically. The $99 Fitbit Tracker, coming in January, is a small device that knows both how many calories you burned and how long it took you to fall asleep. How does Fitbit accomplish all of this? With a tiny motion sensor, [...]
Five Survival Tips For Entrepreneurs
smSmallBusiness.com: What do you do when sales are down and your credit’s been slashed? You rethink your business. Because of the ongoing credit crisis, banks are becoming even more reluctant to extend lines of credit to small-business owners. And the sluggish conditions aren’t expected to improve any time soon. That means business owners who rely [...]
