Archive for July 28th, 2010
Garage Sale Purchase Worth $200 Million?
Rick Norsigian, a goateed 64-year-old maintenance worker who has spent most of his life living in the same house on a quiet street in Fresno, has long had a penchant for collecting antiques. His hobby may have paid off in a big way. The Fresno Bee reports Norsigian and his attorney announced that 60 glass [...]
Sauceaholics’ Recipe For Success
According to The Florida Times-Union, the barbecue sauces, salsas, mustards and rubs are on the shelves. Now the owners of Sauceaholics just have to hope for business. They opened the small shop in Lakewood, Florida, last week. It’s a simple operation by most business standards – one employee and 900 square feet of jars and [...]
The Happiest Entrepreneurs In Canada
According to a TD Canada Trust survey and BIV Business Today, the top five happiest entrepreneurial cities are Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. Overall, high satisfaction levels associated with owning their own business were the main reasons for small business owners having a more positive attitude than those who work for someone else. About [...]
Re-energizing Your Day, Every Day
Numerous research studies show that our bodies operate by 90 minute rhythms during the day. When we’re awake, we move from higher to lower alertness every 90 minutes. Matthew E. May at OPEN Forum says we should try to get things done in bursts of intensely focused activity, interspersed with periods of rest and recovery. [...]
Michelle Staley is watching her online business grow while receiving and offering a helping hand to fellow moms at the same time reports The Fort Morgan Times. She received her first shipment of her Busy Breathers backpacks in December 2008, but has learned more about marketing in the past 1-1/2 years, she said. She’s added [...]
Americans Still Trimming Daily Expenses
One unanswered question posed by this recession is, will we return to our previous buying habits once we believe that it is over? A new Harris poll does nothing to clarify it for us, because it shows that we continue to look for more frugal alternatives in our day-to-day spending. WalletPop reports that one way [...]
Hats Off To 97 Year Old Milliner
Lula Mae Reeves is a 97 year old entrepreneur and the first African American woman to open her own business in downtown Philly reports 6ABC. She became a milliner in the early 1930s making hats and lots of them. “The more I made, the more they liked them.” She opened her first hat shop on [...]
Who first coined the phrase, “Necessity, the mother of invention?” George Farquhar Emily Dickinson William Shakespeare Thomas Edison William Ramsay View Results The answer : Irish poet George Farquhar, 1677-1707. Photo by imagi-nation.com.
Inventor’s Journal: Katherine Huck
Rich Whittle talks with inventor Katherine Huck about her kids’ creative construction product, the Fort-A-Ma-Jig.
Often times when owning your own business it becomes clear that you are bringing in a ton of money/profit, but you are not able to hold onto as much of that profit as you hoped you would. Why is that? Well, this happens for a number of reasons. Look below for some possible reasons and solutions [...]
In a recent article located on Bizbox it was stated that there is money becoming available for small businesses out there more and more each day. This is due to a number of reasons: Small businesses are realizing that we are coming out of a huge recession and therefore there are not as many companies searching [...]
