Archive for November 20th, 2008
World Extreme Fighter Creates A One Stop Resource For All MMA Fans
Like a business, a well-rounded blog will flourish if you have the passion and knowledge required to keep it running. For many, their blog is their business. Domnick Iwasyk, the owner of World Extreme Fighter, is a huge fan of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). Using his blog to share his passion with other fans of [...]
Oviedo Cakery Pleases Sweet Tooth With Artistic Touch
Seminole Chronicle: For Prudence Manolov, it’s about the art; it always has been. When she looks at her latest sweet creation standing magnificiently on the table, she has a sense that beauty will always trump bottom line in the artist’s heart. Manolov’s latest design, a birthday cake for her daughter shaped like three overstuffed pillows [...]
Silver Spring Residents Hope Light-Bulb Moments Will Be Rewarded
WashingtonPost.com: Silver Spring residents Catherine Sumi Kay and Shaun Sablowski say they have always had great ideas for inventions but never followed through on them. But now the house mom and the auto parts salesman are channeling their inner Edisons and making good on some of those ideas. Each has patents pending for two products: [...]
Inc.: Customer service is more important than low prices when it comes to luring and keeping loyal customers, according to a new survey by Accenture. More than two thirds of over 4,000 consumers surveyed worldwide said they’ve switched businesses as the result of a poor customer service experience, the New York-based management consulting firm reported [...]
Family Carves Out Niche In Dried Pumpkin Seeds
Capital Press: They look like pumpkins in the field, and the end product is marketed as “pumpkin seeds,” but technically they are squash and squash seeds. Despite the elastic terminology, Autumn Seed Inc. has firmed up its grasp on the market in the past 60 years. Howard Ropp’s father started the business back in 1943, [...]
Get Ready For Internet Sales Taxes In 2009
Forbes: Attention, online shoppers! This may be the last holiday season you can dodge sales taxes by buying presents on the Web. State legislators, retailers and lawyers say 2009 may be the year Internet taxes finally come to pass. The idea, which would levy sales tax on most goods bought online, has been tossed around [...]
WIRED: In the fall of 1972, when David Galenson was a senior economics major at Harvard, he took what he describes as a “gut” course in 17th-century Dutch art. On the first day of class, the professor displayed a stunning image of a Renaissance Madonna and child. “Pablo Picasso did this copy of a Raphael [...]
Ways for Your Small Biz to Save Money
Inside CRM: With the economy struggling, every business is trying to cut costs to make ends meet. Small businesses, which have fewer resources, especially feel the burn. Not to fear. We’ve come up with a mega-list of ways to trim the fat off your enterprise so you don’t become a casualty of the latest economic [...]
Inc.: As the economic crisis grows, Americans are paying less attention to new product launches, posing a serious challenge for emerging businesses, according to a recent survey. Of 1,000 consumers polled in September, 69 percent could not recall a single product launch this year. About 22 percent said they remembered when the Wii Fit hit [...]
