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- Moms that helped Entrepreneur Success
Yahoo News:
When Bobbi Brown was struggling to decide what to do with her life, her mother suggested a mental exercise that lead to the creation of her eponymous cosmetics business, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. Napoleon Barragan, founder of 1-800-Mattress, remembers his mother washing his family’s clothes by hand in the river, an image that inspired his [...]
- Starting A Blog for Your Workplace
KansasCity.com:
A blog ? a Web page made up short, frequently updated posts ? can be a great marketing tool.
Many business blogs notify customers of new promotions and products, answer questions, promote contests and share company news. A blog also can be a great listening tool that provides insight into what your customers think about your [...]
- European Invention Keeps American Babies Warm: Kindersack
With newborns and babies in general it can be a trick figuring out how to keep them warm in their crib without having to use a blanket, which can be viewed as dangerous. Every parent wants to make the right decision for their children and themselves.
Melissa heard about the Kindersack from her cousin who [...]
- Entrepreneur Founds Firm With Sticking Power
Toledo Blade:
Entrepreneur Randy Boudouris, 52, chose a midlife epiphany over a midlife crisis. Ten years ago, after a falling-out with his employer and a job as a print salesman, he began focusing on making money by himself.
He started MagnetNotes Ltd.
His premier product, MagneCotes, is a paper-thin magnet sheet that is fed through inkjet printers to [...]
- Shoestring Advertising?
Steve Strauss at USA Today:
I always say that being in business is like being alone in a dark room ? you know you are there, but no one else does. So how do you turn on the light and let people (that is, new customers) know you are there?
By advertising.
But too many advertising choices [...]
- Secrets Of Success: Roxanne Quimby
BusinessWeek:
Quimby, co-founder of Burt’s Bees, sold 80% of the company to private equity firm AEA Investors for an estimated $175 million.
In recent years she has launched a couple of new ventures, including an organic cotton clothing company for children, happygreenbee.com, and Seaside Partners, a real estate development firm.
Her secret to success: “After immigrating to [...]
- Chinese Entrepreneurs Coming To America
Los Angeles Times:
Liu Keli couldn’t tell you much about South Carolina, not even where it is in the United States. It’s as obscure to him as his home region, Shanxi province, is to most Americans.
But Liu is investing $10 million in the Palmetto State, building a printing-plate factory that will open this fall and hire [...]
- Work At Home For Fun & Profit
Times-Standard:
It ain’t easy to be a telecommuter. Some people dream of severing the tether to their desk and long for the opportunity to work at home. They see adventure, freedom and personal control versus the commute, oppression and lack of control that sometimes goes with a show-up job.
You need a dedicated desk, file cans, desktop [...]
- Innovative Lobster Turned Business
NovaNewsNow:
It began five years ago with a lobster claw. Roland Swift was talking to his cousin, a local lobster fisherman, when he suggested that Roland invent a machine that would make it easier to band claws. It was from that first banding machine that Morswift Machines was born. It wasn?t long before Swift realized [...]
- Postage Prices Increase On Monday
Starting Monday, May 12, the U.S. Postal Service will increase a First-Class Mail, 1-ounce letter from 42 cents to 43 cents, matching the average inflation rate. Prices for postcards, standard mail and parcels will also change.
Additional changes include Express Mail’s new zone-based pricing system, which means business owners could end up paying less [...]
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