Archive for January 6th, 2009
The Shower Professor Offers A Simple Solution To Help Shorten Your Shower Time
If you want to conserve water when you shower, then it only makes sense to cut back on how much time you spend in it. So a simple alarm would do, right? Not quite. If you want something to join you in the shower, you’ll need it to be either protected or waterproof. Randy Sonderhouse [...]
Soft-Hearted Bikers Keep 'Mom' In Business
The Sun: When her husband of 43 years died, Sue Paver needed someone to help fill the void in her life now that the love of her life was suddenly gone. And she didn’t have to look far. It was her customers – her dozens of sometimes rough around the edges, but softhearted bikers who [...]
ajc.com: Sisters are doing it for themselves these days. Lured by a more flexible workplace than the kinds of jobs their college degrees could secure them in the corporate world, single women and mothers from Atlanta and beyond are stepping into the world of food entrepreneurship. But the road to the kind of profit margins [...]
Start 2009 With An Empty Inbox!
Matt Cutts’ Blog: Matt Cutts (who works for the Search Quality group in Google) has a great idea for starting the New Year. Start with a fresh and empty inbox in your Gmail. There’s nothing like an empty inbox to motivate you and give you a fresh start for the year. But Matt,” you say, [...]
Startup Offering Unique Pet Service
Montana’s News Station: A Missoula-based Internet company recently launched “Pet Living Wills” as a way to protect your favorite dog, cat or goldfish when you are not there. If you could speak on behalf of your pets, what would you say is a question MaryEllen Campbell asked when a horse she was watching for a [...]
From Ad Exec To Baby Food Maker
Telegraph.co.uk: Since 2002 Tom Burrough, 43, has reinvented himself not once but twice: from well-paid advertising executive to stay-at-home father, and now, as the founder of a baby food company, launched from his kitchen table. In 2003 Burrough came up with the idea for Burrough’s Baby Food. He has always loved cooking, and remembers making [...]
One Woman’s Trash Is Another Woman’s…Lingerie?
The Wall Street Journal: Even though gift-giving was relatively stingy this Christmas season, enough stuff changed hands to generate plenty of leftover trash. And that means good tidings for the artists who transform cast-offs into commodities. Curbsides and trash bins are suddenly overflowing with bags, boxes and other booty that will become the raw material [...]
SCORE Offers Web Resource For Entrepreneurs
Suburban Life Publications: Start out right for your business in 2009 with SCORE: Counselors to America’s Small Business.” SCORE provides a resource page called “Small Business Smart Start Tools”. This content area offers valuable resources for assessing your business, organizing your workplace and planning for success. Browsers will find the following tips and tools: • [...]
