Archive for March 17th, 2009
Hello Baby Helps New Parents Ease Into Parenthood With Their All-In-One Shop
In a niche that we generally find many mompreneurs making there mark, Trevor Ginn is making his. What do they have in common? Parenthood. Trevor is a father and the founder of Hello Baby, an UK-based business which sells everything you could need for your baby, from clothing and bedding to strollers. Anything a new [...]
photo credit: aloxe Last year in there was an enormous surge in bicycle sales with the high gas prices and everyone switching over to more efficient ways of travel. So Mr. Graves, an Oregon bike store owner stocked up on winter equipment expecting sales to be the same. However, sales have dropped quite a bit [...]
photo credit: Rob Lee A recent article by Brian Neale stated that during this current recession, your first sales meeting of the new month should revolve around selling the products and services to your consumers that make their lives easier. This is a huge plus in your companies book as people everywhere right now just [...]
MinnPost: Inspiration for Matt Desmond’s latest font struck him while browsing vintage Russian weaponry at a Minneapolis gun show. There he came upon an artillery box of bandoleers featuring a font from a bygone era. The typeset was hastily stenciled and spray-painted blue. Gritty and original. Just his style. An iPhone picture, and a few-clicks-of-a-mouse [...]
photo credit: kozumel Thinking of launching a popcorn related business opportunity? According a report on American Popcorn, popcorn really pops in a down economy: A fourth generation business American Popcorn, the makers of Jolly Time has survived the Great Depression and several more recessions after that. “We’ve kind of been through the tough time at [...]
photo credit: @MSG The fact is that franchise companies still want to grow; and many individuals are still chasing the American Dream. Both groups realize that the lack of available credit is hampering their ability to make this happen. Solutions exist, but they often require some out-of-the-box thinking and aggressive efforts on everyone’s part. Third [...]
Unusual Soaps Keep Mom's Business Alive
KJCT8.com: A Whitewater mom is beating the odds in this tough economy. She turned a hobby into a successful business by making unusual products that are now sold world-wide. Kelly Devries makes special soaps that look like pickels, bacon and eggs, doughtnuts, hot dogs, and even dentures. The gentle hand and body soaps come in [...]
The Kangaroo Club Mompreneur: Talita Feuerstein
examiner.com: Why did you decide to open the Kangaroo Club? The idea for Kangaroo Club was born during the last months of my pregnancy. I had been doing the “office job”, and I realized I was unable to unwind and enjoy my family at the end of a stressful day. The minute my son smiled [...]
Entrepreneurs’ Secret: Smarts, Guts, and Luck
Harvard Business: Great entrepreneurs share and need SGL: Smarts, Guts, and Luck: Smarts The best self-made entrepreneurs possess outstanding street smarts, intuition, emotional and conceptual intelligence as much as–and often more so than–book smarts, analytics, and managerial intelligence. It is why founders are usually very good getting companies to a certain level, but usually less [...]
On The Rebound: David Jones & Ed Basconi
BusinessWeek: David Jones and Ed Basconi had worked together at an electronics production plant in Johnson City, Tenn., since the early 1980s, weathering three different owners: Texas Instruments, Siemens, and EPIC Technologies. But with production moving to Mexico, Jones took a buyout in 2007, and Basconi is one of a handful of employees staying on [...]
‘Pajama Mom’ Helping Jobless Online
NBC29: As employers shed jobs across the U.S., one web-savvy woman is helping others find success from the comfort of their own homes. Leslie Truex, the self-named “Pajama Mom” has spent the past 10 years living and working online operating her own website. “I would search the internet for work-at-home jobs and I would share [...]
Tax-Time Tips For At-Home Workers
CNN: It is at least 1,000 pages long. It costs $787 billion. And it’s as thick as two telephone books. The size and scope of President Obama’s stimulus package is staggering. But for many Americans who work at home, their concerns about the package can be reduced to one question: What’s in it for me? [...]
