Archive for October 27th, 2008
Mailing Lists Are Not Just For The MLM Community
When you enter into business, whether it is some form of network marketing or more traditional, you need to find your audience. When those needs arise, many people purchase leads. GreatMailingLists.com sells mailing and email lists for individuals in all areas of business. However, rather than just purchase and go, Doug Sauerhaft takes the time [...]
Busy Mom Gets Organized With Switch It
bnd.com: Nan Holloway discovered the inspiration for her business during a moment of exasperation. While on vacation in Hawaii with her husband, Chris, Holloway found herself digging constantly through her handbag, trying to locate her cell phone, travel documents or mints. “I’d hear the cell phone ring, and I couldn’t find it,” she says. Frustrated, [...]
Making Pictures Pay – Mom’s Launch Online Business
Pryor Daily Times: Two local moms are supplementing their incomes while offering area moms snap shots of their children’s lives. Kristy Troyer and Melissa McClendon, correspondents for The Daily Times and first-time mothers, created Snap Shot Moms in September. Snap Shot Moms is an online photography service of community events and sports in Mayes County. [...]
Springwise: Demonstrating that it’s possible to profit from any human desire, Sarah’s Smash Shack was conceived to relieve people who are stressed-out. Customers in San Diego can choose fragile tableware from the Smash Shack Menu—for example a set of three glass flowers for USD 10, or the House Special, which consists of 15 plates at [...]
Wal-Mart Sees Shifts In Shoppers’ Habits
USA TODAY: Financial insecurity is forcing Wal-Mart shoppers to change buying habits, cut credit card use and live more paycheck-to-paycheck, the CEO of the U.S. division of the world’s largest retailer said. Economic pain is leading to what Eduardo Castro-Wright termed “disturbing behaviors” among shoppers over the past few months. For instance, more families are [...]
Bedsheet Invention Gets Attention
The News Tribune: David Haggerty couldn’t sleep. “This bed is too warm,” he said to himself, flinging aside the flannel sheets from his sweating body. Next to him, his wife slept like a swaddled log. Perpetually chilled at night, she insisted the flannel sheets stay on the bed year-round. The couple had argued about it [...]
Niche Companies Make Most Of Crisis
The Boston Globe: As stocks began their historic nosedive early this month, Tim McNamara and Tracey Manzi smelled opportunity. The husband-and-wife team of certified divorce financial analysts rolled out a new service to take advantage of the sputtering economy and its inevitable stress on marriages: a flat-rate option for divorce-related financial consulting and mediation. Since [...]
Working From Home, Keeping Your Sanity
The Lawrence Journal-World: Stay-at-home workers have a simple way to stay sane while working at home: Don’t do all the work at home. “I have to get out at some point during the day,” says Robin Ward, who’s been handling freelance design projects out of her western Lawrence residence since coming to town in 2000. [...]
suite101: Offering free WIFI costs a cafe very little, and can attract some good business. It’s a good deal for everyone, if users are conscientious about setting up shop in the coffee house. If you really want to be a welcome worker in the cafe scene, here are some common sense tips to try: • [...]
