Paul King was headed to the airport in Pittsburgh in 2006 when he suffered an ill-timed communications blackout. His cell phone died and he realized he still had his roommate’s house key in his pocket, according to a story at CNNMoney.com. If he didn’t call her to arrange a return, she would be locked out […]
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Gina Roberts-Grey over WalletPop says if you couldn’t resist buying a box or two of Thin Mints or Samoas from a Girl Scout recently, don’t feel bad. These pint-sized dynamos have honed sales skills that rival those of some of the most savvy adult professionals. If fact, some Scouts sell thousands of boxes per year.
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PR-USA.net: A junior/senior level sales class in The Professional Sales Institute of Illinois State University recently donated more than $7,500 of commissions from the sale of Cutco cutlery to Homes of Hope located in Normal, Illinois. The cutlery was sold by Vector Marketing, the sole distributor of Cutco, which trained the students. The check for
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Making the leap from The Brady Bunch to entrepreneurship, Florence Henderson has started the FloH Club, a membership-based telephone tech support service for seniors, AOL Small Business reports. Henderson is definitely on to something big. The senior market is over 37 million strong in the U.S. alone and is still “a vastly under tapped market.
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Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman: With secret sauce and all, an old Anchorage favorite is storming the Wasilla chicken wing market. A week ago, Wings ‘n Things opened the doors to its newest location on the corner of Boundary Street and the Parks Highway. As the name implies, they are serving up chicken wings ranging from mild
UPI.com: A Minneapolis company is taking the female tradition of sales parties in a new, male-oriented direction with back yard barbecue events. John Schaffran, a San Jose, Calif., sales representative for Man Cave, said there are a few tricks to a successful sales party with men, including premiums for large purchases and the ever-important free
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Google is preparing an online store in which it will sell third-party business software to Google Apps customers, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal says that Google’s store could arrive as early as March with the works of third-party developers available as enhancements to Google’s office productivity software suite. It appears the store
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SmartCompany.com.au: I was in the Telstra shop getting a new mobile the other day and the sales assistant upon finding out that I was a solicitor and did international trade work took the opportunity to pick my brain. His friend intended to export nickel to China and he asked me one of the most frequently
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If you’ve been thinking about starting your own business then you are not alone, reports the Evanston Review. More and more moms are clawing their way to the top of the entrepreneurial ladder than ever before. Until she became a mother, BabbaCo‘s founder, Jessica Kim, never imagined she would start a baby product line. Dissatisfied
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Cookeville Herald Citizen: There’s a new chicken restaurant coming to town. Bojangles‘, known for its famous chicken and biscuits, has announced plans to open between two and three restaurant locations throughout the Cookeville-Putnam County area that will invest initially upwards of $6 million into the local economy, creating more than 180 new jobs. “Our target
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