Archive for November 21st, 2008
Mom Stitches Up A Business Of Her Own
The MetroWest Daily News: A mom of four, Tina Hill knows a thing or two about trying to keep kids entertained. The West Newbury woman was on vacation with friends three years ago when she came up with the perfect solution — a kids’ backpack and craft project all in one. She launched her business, [...]
PR Web: Baby Swags is a marketing and celebrity gifting firm that specializes in promoting maternity and juvenile related products created by mom-entrepreneurs, and helps them by spreading a buzz about them all around Hollywood. Once a celebrity has a baby, Baby Swags teams up with it’s clients and sends the new celebrity mom and [...]
Make Money Using The Internet: Connect
Seth Godin: Make money: not by building an internet company, but by using the net as a tool to create value and get paid. Use the internet as a tool, not as an end. Do it when you are part of a big organization or do it as a soloist. The dramatic leverage of the [...]
Makes you want to go out and buy some Post-It notes? BTW, these are the same two guys who did the Diet Coke/Mentos geysers.
Springwise: If crowdsourcing can be used to improve product design, music promotion and sports team management—to name just a few of the examples we’ve written about—why not the process of finding sales leads? That question is about to be tested through a new site that aims to put the crowds to work as a sort [...]
Inventor Thinks Outside The (Mail)Box
news10: It all started when Juan Pineda was a victim of mail theft. Valuable checks were lost in that theft, but Juan may have the last profitable laugh. He’s invented a device that sets off an alarm if a mailbox is tampered with. He got a patent for his product and is seeking a manufacturer [...]
Note Taking In The Digital Age
Lifehack.org: There are all sorts of reasons to take notes, and it’s important to first look to these reasons in deciding which particular method of note-taking is best for us in the modern age. Different note taking needs demand different note taking methods and the importance of each of these needs to each of us [...]
Not A Bad Time For Small Bizs To Raise Prices
The New York Times: Some small-business experts are offering advice that may sound counterintuitive in this slowing economy. Now, they argue, may be the perfect time to increase your marketing budget — and even your prices. Here is the rationale, and some tips, for doing so, if you agree. Zig when they zag “If your [...]
