Archive for January 7th, 2009
Marketing Department Helps Jump Start New Businesses
Starting a new business is hard but with the right information that business can get started off on the right foot. DM-Creative.com is dedicated to helping businesses get that help. Through pages of free information their website shares ideas on how other businesses may get started. For those that need a little more help, they [...]
photo credit: Gaetan Lee Business Opportunities Weblog readers are a smart and entrepreneurial bunch. Everyday I get emails telling me all about their new projects. Once a week, I’m going to feature some of them in a post and let other’s comment on their own new ventures. If you have something to brag about, email [...]
Inquirer.net: Sure, baby shoes are cute. But the truth is, babies aren’t supposed to wear shoes until they’ve learned how to walk. Rianna Roces-Trinidad and Sheryll Ang-Tiong, the mom-entrepreneurs behind Proud Mama, discovered this fact online. “We’re very proactive moms. We spend a lot of time on the Internet, reading articles. One of the things [...]
Customers Helping Her Drive Road To Success
The Daily Post-Athenian: Receiving a reward from your employer for excellence at your job is always welcome news. For Melissa Coffey, the prizes have been a little more significant than a gift certificate or a cash bonus, though. An independent sales director for Mary Kay, she was recently awarded a four-wheel drive SUV – and [...]
GripBoard Brings Surf Something New
San Clemente Times: It’s said that some of the best ideas are born of despair. For Thorpe “Sharky” Reeder, that expression is all too true, and the Capistrano Beach inventor-artist-fisherman hopes one day that the resulting idea will one day pay off in financial success. Reeder is the inventor of the GripBoard, a wave riding [...]
The Tampa Tribune: Faye Dowdell looks for any edge she can find in today’s gloomy economy. Dowdell spent the morning at the Tampa Port Authority office for the first installment of the NFL’s Super Bowl XLIII Playbook for Small Business Workshop Series. The free workshops are designed to help local small and minority businesses. The [...]
Magic Johnson Has Magic Touch In Biz
USA TODAY: Almost nobody would question Earvin Johnson’s skill on the basketball court. But in his second career as an entrepreneur, there were doubters from the start. Johnson, best known by his nickname “Magic,” remains one of the best players to ever don the gold and purple Los Angeles Lakers uniform. Executives he pitched on [...]
NBCPhiladelphia.com: Stacey Pace runs a small florist in New Castle, Delaware. So small that her office is her kitchen and she works from a laptop. “I got this e-mail directly to my business e-mail address from a John Larry inquiring about Eureka Tents,” Pace told NBC 10. She returned the e-mail explaining she is a [...]
Inventor Of Hawaiian Shirt Dies
Metro.co.uk: You’d be forgiven for never hearing of designer Alfred Shaheen. Yet he inspired one of the most colourful, amusing and unforgettable styles of fashion ever known – the Hawaiian shirt. Sadly the pioneering textile manufacturer has died at age 86, his family have confirmed. As tourists from the US to Hawaii after World War [...]
