Archive for October 23rd, 2008
Psycho Baby Takes Baby Style To A Whole New Level
As the times change, so do the styles we dress our babies in. When little blue bears were common place for baby boys, that is being replaced with a Rolling Stones t-shirt. Psycho Baby is on top of the shift in these styles as they continue to stock their store, online and offline, with a [...]
Cedar Rapids Entrepreneur's Invention Makes Debut On QVC Today
The Gazette: Cedar Rapids mom and entrepreneur Suzanne Weston’s WrapItFast makes its debut on the cable home shopping channel QVC at noon today. WrapItFast is a novel gift wrapping paper dispenser. The WrapItFast dispenser has a serrated cutting edge that allows for an easy, straight cut, minimizing the need for scissors. In addition, wrapping paper [...]
Entrepreneur And East Texas Mom Starts Wholesome, Local Mag For Girls
KLTV 7: Modern and modest for the east Texas teen, one woman’s pet project will soon hit your local newsstands. Today, KLTV 7′s Layron Livingston sat down with Heather Nielson, a mother and budding magazine mogul who’s hoping to make a difference. Every day she takes care of four boys, and now she’s reaching out [...]
photo credit: timtom.ch A product that has been well known and backed by the BBB for a long time is the Miracle Polishing Cloth. We all remember as little kids seeing ad’s with that pretty lady using one of the cloth’s. This cloth has proven time and time again to be so good at it’s [...]
photo credit: schoschie Imagine walking through your house one day noticing all the belongings that you have obtained over the year’s such as furniture, family heirlooms, antiques, your childrens toy’s and drawings and all the little thing’s from clothes to shoes and appliances. Now imagine coming home one day to find that a fire has [...]
Reader Mailbag: Canadian Money
A reader wrote: I have a question about working from home. Can you work from home for a company based in Canada and you live in say like US (Florida). How does the currency work? Can they pay you by check like most US companies are is their a difference? I seen where their was [...]
The Blogging Scholarship Is Offering $10,000 To One Blogging College Student
If you attend college and you love to blog, then College Scholarships.org is looking for you! They are reaching out to college students with unique, interesting blogs filled with information about themselves and/or the things they are passionate about. Entries are being accepted until October 31st, 2008 at 12am (PST). Once submissions are closed, the [...]
Online Fantasy And Real Money In Fishing
The New York Times: Leave it to bass fishermen to come up with the right bait for Internet users. FLW Fantasy Fishing has gained a quick following in the cluttered world of online fantasy sports by offering $1 million to anyone who can put together the best team of professional anglers in coming months. The [...]
Invention Makes Rolling-Up-The-Rim Easy
The Star.com: Paul Kind has won a few muffins and maybe a couple of cups of coffee in the annual Tim Hortons Roll Up the Rim to Win contest. Like everybody. But the true winnings, he says, have come from how the game is played. “The rims are very hard to roll up, and I [...]
The Daily Telegraph: A sock called a Mock has made Lara Solomon a finalist in the 2008 Telstra Business Awards at a national level. Winners will be announced at a gala dinner attended by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the Hilton Hotel, Sydney. Making and selling socks to protect mobile phones was not new, but [...]
USA Today: McDonald’s says its third-quarter profit jumped 11%, beating Wall Street estimates on another quarter of strong sales both overseas and in the U.S. Fast-food sales have been holding up despite the economic downturn. McDonald’s, based in Oak Brook, Ill., said that it earned $1.19 billion, or $1.05 per share, the three months ended [...]
Big Companies On The Prowl For Small Bizs
The Wall Street Journal: Decades after his father sold bagels and bialys on New York’s Lower East Side, Gary Schwartzberg was convinced he had a product that could reinvent his family business. With a partner, Schwartzberg had developed a tube-shaped bagel filled with cream cheese — an all-in-one, portable breakfast for the on-the-go crowd. He [...]
