Nanaimo Daily News: Colin Catton gently reassures his five-year-old dog Jack as he places him in the seat attached to his bike handlebars. Jack barks nervously for the first minute but as soon as the straps are clicked in to place, he starts wagging his tail. The seat, called the “BuddyRider,” is a bike seat […]
Queens Chronicle: Astoria residents Margarita Dominguez and Fernando Nelson (aka Fernello) use brains, beauty and talent to promote brands and liven up parties. The gig: body painting. “We have fun. We’re artistic, creative and it’s our passion. That’s why it will be successful,†Dominguez said. The twosome created their body art and marketing enterprise under
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Entrepreneur.com: To try to wow consumers, some entrepreneurs are giving their food products an ethnic twist by sprinkling in ancient spices. They’re adding everything from ginger and turmeric to more exotic spices like Shichimi (Japanese seven-flavor chili) to tickle the taste buds. “Americans love flavorful foods,” says Tammy Katz, chief executive at Katz Marketing Solutions,
Business Week: Dean Sparks is a 49-year-old farmer near Binghamton, N.Y., who for decades has relied on wholesale distributors to buy his organic eggs, milk, and cheese and sell it to stores and restaurants around the East Coast. In early April, he started experimenting with online food wholesaler FarmersWeb to sell to chefs and shop
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Despite being such a large and lucrative industry, PR carries remarkably few barriers to entry. Provided you’ve some experience, a laptop, some broadband and a working telephone, it’s possible to set up shop and get your own PR firm up and running. In fact there’s a myriad of three, two and even one-man firms out
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Wall Drug was the quintessential struggling small businesses in a dieing small town in 1936, when it stepped back and examined its intrinsic resources and realized that its key to success was free ice water: One hot Sunday in July, though, a great change swept us up. It started quietly, in the deadening heat of
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Business Week: Steve Blank pities those poor professors stuck teaching tired business plan courses. “I’d be embarrassed if I was on a faculty teaching ‘How to Write a Business Plan for New Ventures,’†says the serial entrepreneur turned business school professor. Blank is at the forefront of a growing movement of B-school professors teaching the
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Preschool has become the preference of American parents, with more than half enrolling their young children into these educationally focused programs for their many developmental, behavioral, and social benefits. Preschool is continually proven to give children every advantage by offering a developmentally appropriate curriculum, character education, health and fitness exercises, and technology education. By nurturing
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Connecting Directors: Aurora Casket Company, the largest privately owned funeral service provider, is pleased to introduce a new selection of more than 100 Pet Memorial products, which includes various collections of pet urns and beautifully designed pendants to help families say goodbye to a beloved pet. Six out of ten pet owners consider their pets
Lamp-In-A-Box was founded in 2007 by Daniel Cytrynowicz with the idea of redefining people’s experience with table lamps. The vision from the beginning was to create a fun, relevant and affordable lamp, challenging the age-old image of the sober, virtually invisible lighting object in everybody’s home. If you have a retail store or website, contact
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