June 4, 2013

Niche Biz: Restoring Cars

HudsonStarObserver.com: You need to find your niche in life, It doesn’t matter what it is and it doesn’t matter how much money you make,” said St. Joseph resident Doug DeRosier. DeRosier has definitely found his niche. He has worked on body work and paint jobs for automobiles for over 42 years. Though he has been […]

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Nostalgia Is A Profitable Market

Columbus Dispatch: Two area dealers of antique and vintage good say business is good these days despite the nation’s sluggish economy and jitters about jobs. Janet Phillips opened Feathers, an antique store in the Oregon District, in 1978. Her inspiration for opening the business came from her love for old movies and fashion from the

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Niche Biz: Hobby-Shop

Manila Standard Today: For Natalie Kaw, the hobby of scale modeling is an art that needs to be preserved and promoted among today’s youth. She remembers that as a teenager, scale modeling gave her so much joy she eventually decided to make it a part of her life. Kaw is the owner of JMN’s Hobby

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Animal Print Fashion Niche

Telegraph.co.uk: Sharmadean Reid says that she adores animal print so much she’d ‘even wear it to a funeral’. The owner of the WAH nail salon in east London, as well as a style blogger and trend consultant, she grew up in Wolverhampton and would spend hours as a girl in the library hunting down books

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Seasonal Carpetting

Cassandra Daily: Fickle minds sometimes face commitment issues when choosing their homes’ color schemes. To help prevent palette regret, German artist Siren Elise Wilhelmsen has designed a color-changing rug that reacts to seasonal temperatures. The wool Season Carpet, which Wilhelmsen has dubbed a “soft thermometer,” is dyed with three heat-sensitive color pigments that shift in

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