Archive for March 19th, 2009
Baby So Chic Is Transforming Plain Baby Onesies Into Fabulous Day Wear
BigNews.biz: Baby So Chic, a new trendy boutique style online store specializing in onesies for baby boys and girls. The uniquely designed clothing line is adorned with beautifully eye catching Swarovski crystals, chosen for their classy and beautiful look. The high quality crystal jewelery is from the famed Daniel Swarovski collection, which signifies Baby So [...]
Looking To Move? The Recopack Is Replacing The Traditional Cardboard Box
The average life of a cardboard box isn’t very long. They can usually last through one or two uses before they end up in a landfill. When it comes to moving, they’re not very cost effective. Spencer Brown, the founder and brain child behind Rent-A-Green Box has re-invented the cardboard moving box from 100% hard [...]
Online Sales Banned For Girl Scout Cookies
Newsweek: When 8-year-old Wild Freeborn became a Girl Scout earlier this year, she had a simple goal: sell 12,000 boxes of the organization’s addictive cookies. She wanted to earn enough money to send her entire troop (all new scouts) to summer camp in Brevard, N.C. After going door to door in her neighborhood, visiting stores [...]
Biz Resource: Free Coffee Cups
Stuff Daily: Based in Washington DC, FreePaperCups.com is a marketing firm specializing in non–traditional advertising solutions. The firm specializes in handheld branding in the office – ensuring office workers see, touch, and hold advertising messages throughout the day in the workplace. Whether a company spends $100 a month or $100,000 a month on disposable cups [...]
All Kinds Take A Shot At Online Video
USA TODAY: Media companies and people with camcorders and spare time — the drivers of popular online sites including Hulu.com and YouTube— are starting to face tough new competition for the attention of Web users who like to watch videos. Businesses, colleges and institutions are leaping into online video production as the audience for clips [...]
Time Banking Takes Off In Tough Economy
ABC News: After the recession unexpectedly sent her retirement portfolio into a nose dive, 61-year-old Judy Capel found herself forced to make cuts to her budget, eliminating home repairs like fixing her leaky kitchen sink, getting her windows washed and repairing broken shelves in the living room. “Right now, they would not get repaired,” Capel [...]
On The Rebound: Chris Hutchins
BusinessWeek: Chris Hutchins was laid off in the first week of December after working for consulting company Monitor Group for just nine months. Casting around for ideas about what to do next, he decided to build an organization to connect other people who were out of work. The result, LaidOffCamp, offers informal sessions and networking [...]
Inside Entrepreneurship: What Small Bizs Need To Thrive
Susan Schreter At SeattlePI: I’m watching the new administration’s small-business initiatives closely. Here’s my short list for leveraging the innovation and drive of America’s small-business owners. • Fire up the Small Business Administration. The Bush administration demoted the Small Business Administration from Cabinet status and closed regional SBA offices that provided a broad range of [...]
Paying Entrepreneurs To Find Right Biz
The New York Times: Jim Ellis and Kevin Taweel used a search fund to acquire a $6 million roadside assistance company with 45 employees that they built into the nation’s largest provider of insurance products to cellphone companies. While most people have never heard of them, search funds are attracting increasing attention as a way [...]
How To Take On An Established Competitor
photo credit: tinou bao Finding an establish competitor is not necessarily a reason to give up on your business idea. True, in some ways, it will make it harder. But it does prove that that a market exists for your product or service. The Netsetter has detailed six strategies to take on an establish competitor: [...]
