Archive for February 4th, 2009
Granby Mom Brings Memories Together
masslive.com: Stay-at-home mom Sharon A. Bail is helping local people who keep scrapbooks go a step further in preserving their memories by assisting them in putting together hard-cover books. The books have the glossy covers and pages typically used for children’s books and may be designed on a computer using special software from Creative Memories, [...]
photo credit: jnicholls357 In the former Soviet Union, there was a market for burnt out lightbulbs: For most of us, it is hard to fathom the rationale for a market in burnt-out light bulbs. But in the scarcity-driven Soviet economy, the market was entirely reasonable. Light bulbs were rarely available to individual consumers, but were [...]
Mom & Daughter Build Cookie Bouquet Business
Fox23.com: She’s known as the creator of the cookie bouquet, and she’s from right here in Tulsa. Her cookie bouquets have been around for 25 years now. FOX23’s Janna Clark goes on the road to meet a mother and daughter team, who may have rescued their own product. Putting a cookie on a stick is [...]
USA Today: The Chinese New Year began Jan. 26, and this year it’s the year of the ox — an auspicious year for entrepreneurs and those of us who own small businesses. “Gung hay fat choy!” is the Cantonese version of the greeting for the Chinese New Year, but it literally means “May prosperity be [...]
Virtual Assistants Can Amplify Your Biz Marketing
GetEntrepreneurial.com: If you want to boost your business marketing, consider the services of a virtual assistant. Here are a few marketing and research tasks that a virtual assistant can perform for you: • promote your business in social networking sites, a very time-consuming task • produce a podcast which will expand your business’ web presence [...]
photo credit: pfala Being an entrepreneur is truly a rewarding and wonderful career. However, it also means taking on full responsibility for the finances, equipment, losses, bills and more. So in today’s economy entrepreneurs are looking for ways to save money left and right. Below are a few ideas: Once your business is growing fast [...]
It Took 5,127 Prototypes To Create Success
Digital Journal: To create a successful product, Sir James Dyson had to create 5,127 prototypes first. Add 14 years of debt and multiple lawsuits to evade and you get a best-seller in the U.S. and in Europe. It started in 1978, he got vexed with his vacuum cleaner breaking repeatedly, so he created the first [...]
Make The Recession Work For You
YoungEntrepreneur: Mark Levit, founder and managing partner of Partners & Levit, Inc., a New York advertising agency, discusses how you can make tough economic times work for you. “As the economic cycle spins, marketers look forward to the economic highs and dread inevitable recessions. When the economy goes sour, how do brands stay alive? During [...]
Tulsa World: Yvonne Jacobson’s makeshift office is her kitchen table. She had company last week at her Broken Arrow home, so the back bedroom she typically uses to make the baby-shower gifts for her home business was occupied. And writer-video producer Jeff Kauffman’s office is just down the hall from his kids. Or, occasionally, it’s [...]
