Archive for November 25th, 2009
Entrepreneurs Adding Side Bizs
Harmony Kaiser has a salon, but has been spending her days off driving to a lab in Beaver County and making deliveries to retailers, reports The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Kaiser is ignoring the economic downturn and pouring her extra funds and time into launching new businesses on the side, even as she keeps her day job. [...]
Wish you had a little more money in your wallet these days? Who doesn’t? CNNMoney reports while the Great Recession is over by most accounts, the Great Income Squeeze lingers on. You’re more likely to have had a pay freeze than a pay raise over the past year; and the average bump up for 2010 [...]
Inventor Pins Hopes On Hot Dogs
Everything about the Hotdog Ez Bun Steamer seems easy, from the idea — a warm, steamed bun makes for a better dog — to the steamer itself, which looks like nothing more than a round, wire grate with a hole in the middle and some crude handles at the side, according to a story in [...]
Best Inventions of 2009: Tank-Bred Tuna
TIME‘s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting. At 8:47 a.m. on March 12, fish history happened in Port Lincoln, Australia. A tankful of southern bluefin tuna — regal, predatory fish prized for their buttery sashimi meat — began to spawn, [...]
Older Operators Make Mark On Franchising
Prior to the economic downturn, Eric Diaz was managing a department that handled futures systems for Merrill Lynch in New York, reports Reuters. Today he’s a full-time pet groomer, riding around Hudson County, New Jersey in a tricked out Mercedes van replete with two 65-gallon water drums, a hydro tub and a host of shampoos, [...]
I just had to share this bit of wisdom I found on the 800ceoread blog. “If someone asks you for money in exchange for the secret to getting rich, it means the secret is to ask people like you for money.” Dan Kennedy
South Florida Moms Create Their Own Opportunities
The Miami Herald: Moms, some recently downsized, are finding niches in all kinds of unique areas. I met Joan Alini, a laid-off school teacher who sells aprons packaged in pie boxes. Crazy? You may think so, but she’s found her target audience in schoolteacher friends — and she’s making money. I also met Mary Pat [...]
Waterproof ‘Bubbles’ For All Labeling Needs
Like many great mom entrepreneurs before her, Michelle Brandriss’ business began out of frustration. She was looking for a customizable kids label that would fit her specific needs and found herself unsatisfied with the options available. Instead of settling for something that didn’t quite fit what she wanted, Michelle leaped into action and created Name [...]
