Archive for December 10th, 2009
Small Bizs Are Finally Getting Into Facebook
American Express OPEN recently did a survey of 763 small business owners of companies with fewer than 100 employees and found that nearly 60 percent of their members feel challenged when finding innovative ways to market, but only 10 percent are even marketing through online social networks like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.com, according to a [...]
Renting a video from Redbox has always been cheap. The video rental company with the now ubiquitous red kiosks in supermarkets and other retailers charges $1 to pick up a disc, as long as you return it on time. But now one clever entrepreneur has figured out how to make it even cheaper, reports The [...]
Forbes has an interesting story about how much money you would save if you skipped Christmas. The single biggest category of Christmas spending is gifts. This year the National Retail Federation projects that spending on gifts will drop only slightly, after a dramatic decrease of over 30% during the 2008 holiday season. According to the [...]
Holiday Cards For Bacon Lovers Everywhere
Artist Mike Geno created a Christmas tree using only uncooked bacon strips, according to a story in The San Francisco Food Blog. The result is an eerily apt representation of the holiday perennial, with ribbons of fat filling in for strands of garland ? It’s even garnished with a tiny bacon star. Geno has committed [...]
Google Sues Work-At-Home Scammers
CNNMoney reports Google filed a lawsuit against Pacific WebWorks and other unnamed defendants for allegedly using the company’s name and colorful logo to promote fraudulent work-at-home money-making schemes. Thousands of people have been tricked into sending payment information and being charged hidden fees by questionable operations,” Google said in a blog post. The search engine [...]
GPS Collar Helps Owners Find Lost Pets
Trendspotter Springwise reports that GPS technology is enabling all kinds of new products and services on mobile devices, so why not on “mobile” entities of the four-footed kind? Pets, that is—many of whom have a tendency to roam at least as much as the average cellphone user. Enter SpotLight, a new solution that uses GPS [...]
Web Design Biz Gives Mom Balance
Firstcoastnews.com: When Melissa Rolli was laid off last December, she didn’t let it get her down. Instead, the mother of three young boys returned to school, and started her own business. Rolli, a student and mother who lives in Julington Creek, likes to bake and play with her three boys, who range in age from [...]
Parents Pay Less, Kids Play More With Educational Game Rentals
If you wanted to rent a game for your playstation or xbox, you never had to look much further than your local rental store. However, if you wanted to rent a game for your child’s v.smile, you were out of luck. That is, until now. Thanks to Jenny Scheidle and Christy Baker, the mom entrepreneurs [...]
