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Bad and good cupcakes in Atlanta

Cliff Bostock of Atlanta’s Creative Loafing looks into overturning unhappy cupcake memories and talks to the owners of Atlanta’s new Cupcake Factory:
I went to a birthday party when I was a kid where amazingly repulsive cupcakes were served. I got very sick and hadn’t been able to eat another without feeling queasy until I encountered […]

Little lemon flower cupcakes

flower cuppies Originally uploaded by freakgirl
From freakgirl: vanilla cupcakes with lemon buttercream frosting. fondant cutouts with edible pearls on top.
Original post by Rachel and software by Elliott Back

Niche Biz: Online Image Cleaner

Reuters:
Job hunters perfecting their resumes for that dream job are being urged to also polish their online profile — and clean it up if need be, with a new breed of companies emerging to help mold Internet images.
A study of 1,150 hiring managers by Careerbuilder.com found 26 percent of managers admitted to using search engines […]

80% of Your Business Should Come From 20% of Your Customers

This is a guest post by Nicole Taylor from Home Business Online Opportunities.
Have you ever heard the expression that eighty percent of your business should come from twenty percent of your customers? This is not an equation I am pulling out of thin air. It is an established business theory and the home businesses that […]

Small Publishers Unlock Niche Markets

The Courier-Journal:
Film and television director/writer Josh Becker never thought his first book, “The Complete Guide to Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking,” would get a lot of attention from big-name publishers. The title, which was aimed at a niche market, would find better reception at a small independent company, Becker reasoned.
His New York literary agent had different ideas. […]

Moonjar Moneybox

Seattle Times:
What’s the best thing to do with money: Spend it, save it or give it away?
The ideal answer, says Eulalie Scandiuzzi, is to recognize the importance of all three. That’s why she created colorful children’s banks with three compartments: spend, save and share.
Too many families, she said, either don’t talk about money at all […]

Dog-Gone Good Entrepreneur

Crescent News:
At least two nights every week, Hicksville resident Kimberly Collins heads for her kitchen to bake delectable homemade treats.
The mouth-watering flavors include Peanut Butter, Crunchy Munchy Wheat, Beggars Beef Bone and Herb Woofies.
The treats are edible by humans, but Collins’ preferred customers are dogs and cats.
Known as Kim’s Gourmet Pet Treats, the business started […]

Busy Mom Invents SippiGrip

Seattle Times:
At first, Jake Crevin knocked his plastic tumbler off the high chair accidentally, but eventually it became a game: See how many times Mommy will pick it up. On outings, he’d toss it out of his stroller, and it would get dirty, or simply lost.
First, Sari Crevin sewed a fabric strap to keep the […]