Archive for February 26th, 2009
Business Allows Consumers To ‘Defy’ The Middle Man And Save Money
During a time when people are looking to save money and companies are looking to make it, middle ground has to be made. By eliminating the middle man, DefySupply seems to have found the right formula. They offer the best prices on furniture around, back it up with their price guarantee and draw in those [...]
The Recession Has Also Hit The Virtual Wallet
Denver Business Journal: Olivia Omega Logan avoided calculating holiday season sales from her online baby clothes and gift store for the same reason a lot of people don’t look at their 401(k) accounts — the numbers wouldn’t be good. But the former marketing professional turned “mompreneur” recently opened the spreadsheets for her Aurora-based business, babycandystore.com., [...]
Mom Designs A Way To Lift Self Out Of Hardship
SouthtownStar: Most business people would scoff at the way Marilyn Johnson runs her business. At Digital Worxx Design in Chicago’s Beverly community, Johnson trains her competition. Besides the digital design and printing Johnson does out of her double storefront on 111th Street, the single mother spends time teaching design to other aspiring business owners. “I [...]
The Small Business Marketing Guide
The Small Business Marketing Guide is a one-stop, do-it-yourself resource here to help you grow your business. This guide is your source for tips, inspirational real-world examples and how-to articles by small business marketing experts as well as helpful resources for designing your brand identity, creating marketing materials, launching direct marketing promotions and building an [...]
How Captain Kangaroo Saved Play-Doh
Mental Floss: Back before it was Play-Doh, everyone’s favorite squishy clay was actually a wallpaper cleaner used to clean soot off of walls. But when people switched from using coal burning furnaces to oil fueled ones in the ‘40s and ‘50s, demand for the product evaporated. Kutol, a manufacturing company in Cincinnati, was watching their [...]
Springwise: Planning a wedding may be a time-consuming task, but any bride who elects to take her husband’s last name after getting married soon learns that the process of making that name change can be nearly as laborious. Enter I’m a Mrs., a new site that gives Canadian women an alternative to navigating the myriad [...]
Will Talk of a Depression Lead to One?
photo credit: mugley In a recent survey, it was shown that more than two thirds of consumers said they expect the recession to last for five more year’s! That is a long time when you think about our current situation extending to that length of time. With all of the talk about the recession turning [...]
Inc.: Green Mobile started in 2004 basically as an eBay hobby, when 24-year-old founder and CEO Brian Laoruangroch realized he could buy old phones and resell them for a profit. He soon built his own website to market refurbished phones; his brother Brett, like Brian a University of Missouri student, joined him and took charge [...]
photo credit: WTL photos Here’s an idea that I didn’t think would pop up in a small town Maine: a topless coffee shop. On Tuesday morning, a small sign hung in front of the log cabin-style building, listing the hours: 6 a.m.-6 p.m. The outside windows were covered with promotional posters for New England Coffee. [...]
Microfinance In USA About To Explode?
WalletPop: How would you like a couple thousand dollars to start your own business or keep it afloat? What if you have the idea for a business but lack a network of support and training to get started? If you have a business, or want to start one, with five or less employees then you’re [...]
Growing Up In Recession Can Shape Child’s Future
The Wall Street Journal: K. Esther Szabo was a small child when the recession of the early 1970s sent her family’s fortunes into a tailspin. Her father, an economist, struggled to find work, and her mother worried about paying the bills. The family eventually filed bankruptcy. The tensions at home put a permanent mark on [...]
