Chicago Tribune: A Seattle outlet of the 16,000-store coffee behemoth is being rebranded without visible Starbucks identifiers, as 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea. Two other stores in Starbucks’ native Seattle will follow suit, each getting its own name to make it sound more like a neighborhood hangout, less like Big Coffee, a Starbucks official told […]
Coffee Giant Opening Neighborhood Shops In Disguise Read More »
Max Motors in Butler, Missouri, is giving away an AK-47 when you buy a pick-up truck! Here’s a video interview with the owner from CNN. Embedded video from CNN Video
Buy a Pickup, Get an AK-47 Read More »
This is neat. Do you have an idea for a board game? Check out this company: The Game Crafter is a new company that lets you build your own, fully customized, table-top games. Board games, card games – you name it, there’s a good chance these guys can put it together for you, with fully
Gerson Lehrman Group: With many companies reducing work forces, many capable people find themselves between jobs. Often times they have an idea or concept that they have been refining, but without the time to finish and take to market. The biggest mistake people make is that they invent a new product in a new product
Complementary Inventions Produce Faster Revenue Read More »
BusinessWeek: The impetus to regulate online marketing may be gathering steam. On June 18 a House of Representatives subcommittee held a hearing to take a closer look at how advertisers gather and use information on consumers’ Web-surfing habits. Up to now the government has had a hands-off policy toward online marketing, giving companies relatively free
Internet Marketing: Is Regulation Coming? Read More »
The New York Times: The Swiss postal service has started redirecting some mail from the letter box to the in-box. A program introduced by the Swiss Post in June allows subscribers to receive scans of their unopened envelopes by e-mail message and then decide which ones they want opened and scanned in their entirety, to
Delivering Letters To Your Inbox Read More »
WSPA: An Upstate mom says people stop her in airports and on the streets to ask her where she got her daughter’s t-shirt. It turns out she designed it to teach character to her two-year-old daughter Lena. Melissa Patton is the mom behind Bee-Tees. She designs t-shirts, hats, and bags with simple, inspirational thoughts: “Bee
Bee-Tee Business Booms During Rough Economy Read More »
PR-Inside: Having two toddlers can inspire many things, but for Cathi Reyes, they are the inspiration to develop products that simplify life! Our first product, the Aquabag, is a water bottle/baby bottle bag that functions as a purse. It is an insulated bottle bag that has a built in wallet and two side pouches. The
Mompreneur Brings New Meaning To Purse With The Aquabag Read More »
Cincinnati.com: With its recent purchase of high-end retail outlet The Art of Shaving, Procter & Gamble will soon control nearly 70 retail outlets, representing its biggest foray into the retail sector. For P&G, a manufacturer and marketer of consumer products, the move into retailing represents more than the experiment that previous efforts have been. It
P&G Expands Direct Retail Read More »
