Archive for October 29th, 2008
Peruvian Crocheted Jewelry Goes From Passion To Business For One Woman
The market for jewelry is huge! The styles, the prices, and the way people are purchasing their jewelry is changing all of the time. Tradition shows us that people show up at a jeweler to pick out a gorgeous piece to add to their collection, but now a growing number of people are logging on [...]
Jennifer Fiander: eBay Canada's Mompreneur
telegraphjournal.com: Hampton resident Jennifer Fiander has been crowned eBay Canada’s Mompreneur of the Year for using the power of the Internet to sell her journals for brides, grooms, mothers, daughters, fathers and sons. “It’s nice to get the recognition because I work so hard on the company,” she said in an interview. Fiander began her [...]
Bizymoms Introduces New Local Business Directory
PR-inside.com: Inspiring and empowering mothers everywhere is the main role played by Bizymoms. In a bid to achieve their goals, the site has offered a vast amount of free information, established chat rooms and discussion forums, launched exciting programs for moms, given technical support in business ventures and allowed busy moms to help each other [...]
20 Small Business Ideas for Small Towns
Becky McCray, author of the blog Small Business Survival has published an ebook called 20 Small Business Ideas for Small Towns. Take a look at the table of contents after the jump. If you can’t find a good idea in there to profit from in your community, you’re not looking hard enough.
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How to Start a Business in a Bad Economy
It seems like nearly every day there’s more bad news about the economy. Even worse, it’s hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel. Given that, it may seem like a terrible time to start a small business. So here’s something that may surprise you: it’s actually not. The truth is that [...]
With the fluctuating economy, people are spending money where they need to, not necessarily where they want to. Saving money and value for money spent are things that are increasingly more important to consumers at the present time. In order to increase productivity, and business as a result, there are some things every business owner [...]
If No One Sees It, Is It an Invention?
The New York Times: In December, Johnny Chung Lee, then a Ph.D. candidate, posted a five-minute video on YouTube that became an Internet sensation. The video showed how, in a few easy steps, the Nintendo Wii remote controller — or “Wiimote” — could transform a normal video screen into a virtual reality display, with graphics [...]
Shoppers Are Suckers For Stats
arstechnica.com: From gigahertz to bogomips, dot pitch to DPI, it’s hard to exist in the electronics age without getting bombarded by figures that are supposed to help you understand what, precisely, you’re getting for your money. But really, how many of us understand the implications of a few extra megahertz in the memory interface on [...]
Fortune Small Business: Sam Collora didn’t set out to become a pee farmer. Collora was working as a plant manager at a steel manufacturing facility and running a taxidermy business on the side. One day his wife, Judi, bought him some deer to use as live models. Owning deer is like keeping two rabbits in [...]
Las Vegas Review-Journal: I have seen so much interest and gotten so much mail about how to decorate or redecorate our homes to accommodate working from home that I’m talking about home offices today. But, I think you’ll be surprised. Home offices are not what they used to be. Today it’s all in the attitude. [...]
CNNMoney.com: Like many entrepreneurs, Jim Christy set out to boost revenues by reaching a bigger market. But the founder and CEO of Incredible Foods, a dessert delivery service in Gibsonia, Pa., soon found that bigger sales don’t necessarily equal better business. Christy, 55, launched Incredible Foods to sell a San Diego bakery’s cheesecake to local [...]
