Archive for November 30th, 2009
Deluxe Enterprise Operations will randomly award a $10,000 gift certificate from Target Commercial Interiors featuring HON furniture and a $5,000 DeluxeBucks gift certificate to use toward logo and Web site design, promotional products and additional marketing and branding solutions. Ten second-place winners will receive $500 DeluxeBucks gift certificates. Enter by November 30, 2009. More information [...]
TCBY (the frozen yogurt stores) is holding a competition to give away a brand new TCBY franchise store for FREE. To enter you must create a video up to 2 minutes long indicating why you should win a TCBY store. Complete the application form and submit it with your video. Legal residents of the U.S. [...]
Inventor Credited With 405 Patents
Inventors are made, not born, and anyone has the potential to come up with new ideas, said Jack Mandelman, a retired electrical engineer, in a story in The Times-News. He should know. Many people have never heard of the Flat Rock resident, but every time they turn on their computer or use a cell phone [...]
Mom Uses Franchise To Cater Underserved Market
Suzanne Plafcan couldn’t find real-estate space for her Clix Portrait Studio franchise right away, reports Entrepreneur. So instead of waiting, she opened just the event-photography side of the business in March 2008. “It turned out to be the best thing I could have ever done,” she says. It allowed her to keep costs down by [...]
Woman’s Trash Is Inventor’s Lawn Treasure
Deidre Booker works hard during the planting season tending her mums, pansies and marigolds in the front yard and a garden of herbs, tomatoes, cabbage and peppers in her backyard, writes The Sun Times . So when Booker heard about the “Glam Can” — a black, 3-gallon, mount-anywhere garbage and recycling can — she snapped [...]
Cakes Might Not Be Real, But Money Is
Kimberly Aya’s career choice was an easy one. When she was just 8 years old, she started designing cakes for her chocolate-loving father–and she hasn’t stopped since, according to a story in Entrepreneur magazine. So her first order of business upon returning home to Michigan was to open a specialty cake shop. Aya started showing [...]
TerryStarbucker had been thinking about looking under rocks for several weeks lately – I always worry about complacency, and it was a perfect analogy for me. Because there’s always a better way to do something – or a better way to analyze something – or present something. The minute we think we have it all [...]
Emily Shankman of Chicago graduated from college earlier this year with plenty of hope for her career. The 22-year-old had studied vocal performance and was learning how to turn her passion for music into a paying career, reports The Wall Street Journal. As a way to get hands-on experience in arts administration, Shankman, who graduated [...]
Moms Products Go From Garage To National Distribution
The Orangeville Banner: If you want to find Chris Llewellyn, your best bet — most days — is to knock on her garage door. That’s where the Orangeville resident spends much of her time creating rustic home décor items for a national distributor. “As anyone who has a small business knows, there’s no such thing [...]
