Archive for November 16th, 2009
Fridge Locker Stops #1 Office Crime
According to a 2008 study, 98% of employees said the worst office crime was to steal food from the office refrigerator, reports PRWeb. In order to solve this shocking and growing epidemic, Locker Brand, Inc. has officially launched its flagship product:The Fridge Locker. The Fridge Locker is a high density polyurethane storage unit that conveniently [...]
Tribune Media Services has put together a list of eight reasons you should be telecommuting. 1. More than two-thirds of surveyed employers report increased productivity among their telecommuters – as much as 35 percent more productivity at some high-profile companies such as American Express and Best Buy. 2. Teleworkers typically continue to work when they’re [...]
Global Times: A gym coach in Shenyang, Liaoning Province [of China] has launched a secret sideline – by renting himself out as a punching bag for stressed women. But Lin Xiao said he has not told his family about his new sideline. He told the Liaoshen Evening Post, “It fits in well with my day [...]
What To Watch For With Work From Home Scams
photo credit: pena2 With the holiday season approaching, there are many people looking into work from home jobs to make a little extra spending money for the holidays. The problem is that the true work from home jobs can be very hard to find through all the scams and hustles that are going around. Look [...]
Grad’s Experience Transforms Her Into ‘Intern Queen’
Lauren Berger knows a thing or two about internships. The Countryside High grad, who bills herself as the “Intern Queen,” completed more than a dozen of them before she graduated college, reports TampaBay.com. Berger, 25, parlayed her intern status into an expanding brand that includes college speaking engagements, endorsements and an online site that boasts [...]
Slow Down And Boost Your Productivity
photo credit: lepiaf.geo An article was recently posted on Open Forum regarding how to boost your productivity in the work place by slowing down and taking more time for things that you have cut out of your day on purpose. It is stated that being busy is not always the best thing for your work [...]
Best Inventions of 2009: The $20 Knee
TIME‘s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting. Tens of thousands of amputees in the developing world wear an inexpensive prosthetic called the Jaipur Foot. But poor patients who lose a knee joint have few options: a titanium replacement can cost [...]
How To Market With True Meaning
photo credit: Tracy Hunter Proof is In the Results. What’s the ROI for marketing with meaning? Ask Tara-Nicholle Nelson, an Oakland, Calif., real estate broker and founder and Chief Visionary of {RE}Think Real Estate. Nelson projects the $75,000 she invested in positioning herself as an expert–empowering women to buy their own homes–to yield $1 million [...]
Course Shows Arts Students How To Become Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship programs at UW–Madison are supporting innovative thinking and actions, so says UW News. A new course, Art as Business as Art, is showing students in the arts the range of creative possibilities available to them and giving them the tools they need to advance their career goals. Art as Business as Art grew out [...]
Clock Winding Down On Patent Scams?
Relief might be in sight for retailers afraid that somebody somewhere has secured a patent covering some mundane process they regularly do in the course of selling stuff – be it the way customers swipe payment cards, their methods for collecting loyalty program data or the functioning of their Web site’s shopping cart feature, reports [...]
Teachers Raise Cash by Selling Plans Online
Kentucky.com: Between Craigslist and eBay, the Internet is well established as a marketplace where one person’s trash is transformed into another’s treasure. Now, thousands of teachers are cashing in on a commodity they used to give away, selling lesson plans online for exercises as simple as M&M sorting and as sophisticated as Shakespeare. While some [...]
Styllish Mom Nutures Baby Carrier Business
North County Times: Like countless new mothers, Robyn Collar found two hands weren’t enough. With an infant girl, Kayli, and a newborn son, Talen, Collar found herself more than 100 percent occupied. “I couldn’t change my daughter’s diapers because my son wouldn’t let me set him down without screaming,” Collar said. “I couldn’t see to [...]
