Archive for October 21st, 2008
Mom’s Hobby Turns Into A Picture Perfect Business
No matter how you look at it, photography is an art form. If done right, photography can be turned into a profitable business. Bonnie didn’t realize the potential she held until she had the opportunity to show her work. The response she received was enough to drive her into the business world with Photography By [...]
PR-Inside: Felisha Hobbs, a single mother of four, defeats bout with depression and found her calling, bringing smiles to the faces of others by starting her own online gift basket business, GiftBasketsMade2Perfection.com that provides truly unique custom-made gift baskets with style and pizzazz leaving lasting impressions long after its contents are gone. Overcoming a twelve [...]
seattlepi.com: The stock market has plummeted and the economy is slipping, but one of Seattle’s newest children’s shops is positioned to survive the economic storm. Last weekend, Buggy celebrated its first anniversary as a retail hybrid, a children’s boutique on Beacon Hill that sells new and gently used clothes — from new T-shirts for urban [...]
Online Boutique Creations Appeals To Fashion Savvy Moms And Kids
Market Watch: Upscale online boutique, Libellula Creations, is one step ahead of the online fashion world by offering hip designer baby clothes and kids clothes to moms and kids. Created in 2006, the three mom team of Agatha Frank, Tina Burns and Rhonda Smith created this fashion-forward boutique in order to make great fashion accessible [...]
Even If You’re Ill, You Can Still Stay Connected
The New York Times: If shopping is indeed a form of therapy, why does nobody seem to get better? Because of one innovation, one group of shoppers may start. Hospitals have begun installing Internet systems, complete with dedicated shopping channels, to help patients pick up goods they will need for their recuperation. The idea is [...]
Inc.: MySpace is targeting small-business owners with the release of MyAds, a low-cost do-it-yourself direct advertising application that taps directly into the site’s 122 million users. The new service allows smaller businesses to develop a targeted marketing campaign ranging in price from $25 to $10,000, according to News Corp.-owned social networking giant. It enables owners [...]
Entrepreneur Brews Recipe For Success
Financial Post: Constantine Voyages runs Toronto-based GoldStar Coffee, which buys, roasts and ships coffee to restaurants, hotels and consumers. Constantine Voyages tells the Financial Post what motivated him to become an entrepreneur. “Fresh out of college, I joined with a friend to run a coffee company. The partnership didn’t last, but I stayed in the [...]
Fund Your Idea In Knight News Challenge
AppScout: If you’ve ever thought that you could do news better than the large media companies or had an idea to revolutionize the way people receive and consume information, the James L. Knight Foundation is looking for you. The foundation is hosting the Knight News Challenge and is inviting anyone and everyone with an innovative [...]
BBC News: A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulated centres in the brain that controlled decision-making and complex reasoning. The researchers say this might even help to counteract the age-related physiological changes that cause the brain to slow down. The study features in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. As [...]
