Archive for November 11th, 2008
Bugle-Observer: Get your sweet tooth ready, because there’s a new bakery in town, and they’ve got some real goodies. Sweetie Cakes, a cake and chocolate shop, has been up and running for two weeks, and owner Naomi McLaughlin has been baking up a storm. “I’ve had a great response,” McLaughlin said. The military reservist and [...]
Bluffs Mom's Business Is 'For Every Body'
SW Iowa News: At 53, Teresa Young found out she was a “closet” candle person. Young, an in-home childcare provider, stumbled upon her love for different scents – and a career opportunity – because of a gift from one of the children she watches. For Christmas in 2006, Young said she received four candles from [...]
CourierPostOnline.com: In the era of Nintendo’s, Playstations and thousands of computer games, kids are continuing to get lost in a world of fantasy and violence, and experiencing disconnect from their families. One Pennsylvania father decided to do the unthinkable, design and develop an educational board game to make mathematics fun. Flashcar, the brainchild of Matthew [...]
Yahoo Tech: Despite the public shame of driving around with a cell phone jammed against your face and the growing number of laws against it, people just can’t stop dialing and driving, it seems. Could the next step be technology that actually disables your cell phone while you’re on the road? A Canadian outfit called [...]
CourierNewsOnline.com: In a dismal economy, Nickie Olivier says business couldn’t be better. In fact, requests for her Curly Girlz pins are far outweighing her ability to handle the orders that keep rolling in. “Our demand is so great right now, we are almost recession proof,” Olivier said. The South Elgin home-based business makes girl-shaped pins [...]
Frugality Trumps Brand Loyalty
The Wall Street Journal: When Summer Mills visited her local CVS drugstore recently, to save a few dollars she bought the store-brand facial scrub rather than the Olay version she normally uses. “I thought I’d be able to tell the difference, but I couldn’t — I looked at the ingredients and they seemed almost the [...]
Forbes: Mom and pop shops didn’t need the nasty headlines of the last two months to tell them things were bad out there. The National Small Business Association’s annual survey of small-business owners published in August found that 67% of small-business owners are directly affected by the credit crunch–more than double the number expressing those [...]
