Archive for April 20th, 2009
Real-Estate Investing Is For Soccer Moms
PR Newswire: If there is anyone who should seriously consider investing in real estate it is America’s army of Soccer Moms. “These extraordinary women generally have what it takes and need what it provides” so the assessment of authors and women real-estate investors S.A. Philipp and Barbara Heil-Sonneck. “The biggest threat to America’s Soccer Mom [...]
Momprenuer's Business Continues To Flourish, Despite Recession
PRWeb: A single layoff turned Nicole Dean’s one-income family into a no-income family over night. After that experience she decided to take control of her earning potential and started an online marketing business. That was back in 2001. Today Nicole Dean is not only running her online business successfully but is able to hire 12 [...]
CNNMoney.com: EMotion’s flagship product is the “BFF<3 necklace,” a wireless communication device that takes the form of a fashion accessory for the tween set. The necklace uses radio frequency to communicate with other necklaces within a 1,000-foot range, sending coded messages though patterns of lights and vibrations. “We saw this market as very underserved,” says [...]
Putting Twitter’s World To Use
The New York Times: The first reaction many people have to Twitter is befuddlement. Why would they want to read short messages about what someone ate for breakfast? It’s a reasonable question. Twitter unleashes the diarist in its 14 million users, who visited its site 99 million times last month to read posts tapped out [...]
Start Up: Green Dragon Pest Solutions
Fortune Small Business: In 2007, Green Dragon secured enough funding to begin production of its all-natural roach poison. CEO Jay Mullis formally launched the company in January 2008 and has since gotten a federal Environmental Protection Agency license to sell his boric acid formula. He’s now introducing his product into the market on a state-by-state [...]
Top Marketer Trends In Social Media
Website Magazine: It shouldn’t surprise anyone, but a new study surveying 900 marketers shows that marketers are heavily invested in social media, to the tune of 88 percent using at least one social outlet. What is a little surprising is that 72 percent of respondents claim they have only been using these resources for a [...]
Extra, Extra! Homeless Save Newspapers
The New York Times: Newspapers produced and sold by homeless people in dozens of American cities are flourishing even as the deepening recession endangers conventional newspapers. At many of them, circulation is growing, along with the sales forces dispatched to sell the papers to passers-by. The recession has hardly been a windfall for these street [...]
