Archive for November 13th, 2008
Canby Woman Turns Love Of Food Into A Passionate Business
OregonLive.com: Sue Socher can’t understand why her daughter, Melissa Haskell, spends hours making homemade chicken or beef stock or canning tomatoes when it would be easier to buy them at the grocery store. “It sounds like a lot of work to make things homemade, but really it is very simple,” Haskell said. “I enjoy making [...]
LotusJump Puts The SEO Tools You Need In Your Hands
Why do those top brands rank highest in search engine results? It is not dumb luck. They hire SEO (Search Engine Optimization) firms to make it happen. It is important to optimize your website for the best search engine results possible, but many small and medium sized businesses simply can not afford the same services [...]
Naples Daily News: A local inventor and businessman launched a local-based online clue game, Gopher Wit, that is like an online treasure hunt that turns into a race. It’s free to sign up and play, said 44-year-old Kem Gursoy, who devised the game. Three clues are released on the game’s Web site everyday, and each [...]
Economy Stalling Your Small Biz? Shift Gears
The New York Times: These may not be the best of times to start or run a small business, but Christopher Hazlett’s struggle to hang tough through one crisis after another may hold lessons for the legions of entrepreneurs caught between a stumbling economy and crippling credit squeeze. At the very least, his upbeat attitude [...]
Moms Create Bling For Crying Babies
Washington Post Magazine: Kendra LaDuca’s eureka moment came while she was pushing a grocery cart through the aisles of a Costco seven years ago. As she scanned the shelves, her infant daughter leaned over and started chewing on Kendra’s leather watchband. “She was slobbering on my arm, and I just let her because she was [...]
Fresh Thinking For Uncertain Times
Inc.: It’s no secret to anybody running a small or independent retailer that we’re operating in an unprecedented economic environment. Right now, it feels like the only thing that we can be certain about is uncertainty. Credit is extremely tight, and forecasting sales is like throwing a dart. The only bright spot is that gasoline [...]
Kalamazoo Gazette: Tom Raich’s dream about beer has turned into a nice little side business. Raich, a 53-year-old pharmacist and longtime homebrewer, had a dream one night in 1996 that led to an invention, called the Brew Hauler, which is taking off thanks to the recent resurgence in homebrewing. Raich had struggled hauling his five-gallon [...]
