DailyCamera.com: On any weekend, you’re likely to find Bridget Lane baking cookies. But her cookies are a little more complex than the average chocolate chip treat and not just because they’re gluten free. Lane’s cookies got their start in a special situation and have grown into a business designed to nourish those in special situations. […]
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Fortune Small Business: A year ago Kris Drey couldn’t care less about Twitter. With 13 years of Web site experience, Drey is no technophobe. He serves as vice president of product marketing at Fliqz, an online video-hosting service with 20 employees in Emeryville, Calif. But when he first skimmed Twitter, the popular micromessaging service launched
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Entrepreneur’s StartUps: You’ve got a great idea and a plan to turn it into a business. Now all you need are customers–and to get them, you need to spread the word about what you’re doing. One problem: Your marketing budget makes your grade school allowance look like a princely sum. Get Profiled In 2007, when
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Worcester Business Journal: Ah, the joys of working from home. No battling the rush hour traffic. No rushed lunch breaks. No crammed workspaces surrounded by sterile, gray cubicle walls. Sounds like a worker’s paradise, doesn’t it? Be advised, it may not be as easy as you think. The following advice, provided by Linda Novey-White, a
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There’s not a lot of time left to enter Forbes’ 2009 “Boost Your Business” Contest. If you’re interested, you’d better get cracking. Forbes.com, home page for the world’s business leaders, invites entrepreneurs to enter its third annual “Boost Your Business” small business contest. Contestants can now submit their entries at www.forbes.com/byb. In the first round
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photo credit: Jim Doran Keep and eye on this, there’s either a real opportunity here in a few years, or a monster movie in the making. Mother Nature Network: It’s not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at May’s Canadian Science
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Physorg.com: The study by Sara Mednick, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego and the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and first author Denise Cai, graduate student in the UC San Diego Department of Psychology, shows that REM directly enhances creative processing more than any other sleep or wake state. “We found that
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TheLedger.com: In an unusual twist, many moms are finding themselves in a new scenario: seeking work-at-home arrangements driven not by flexibility – think soccer practices and piano recitals – but as the best option to supplement family income. With a surge in male breadwinners out of work, mothers are selling jewelry out of their kitchens,
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The Houston Chronicle: You’ve heard the adage that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is? That definitely applies in the world of government grants. The government just does not give out money to open a “regular” business like a restaurant, bookstore or car wash, with no obligation to pay the money
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photo credit: Jesse757 A new post up on Dgital Photography School offers four tips for improving the photographs you use on your online store. They are: Turn Off the Flash Remove Distracting Elements Utilize Simple Staging. Employ Creative Use of Depth of Field to Highlight Product Detail
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