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Mom Starts Online Toy Rental Service

The Associated Press:
After scouring the Internet to fill her house with only the best toys for her infant twin sons, Lori Pope hated to watch the clutter build as the boys lost interest.
If you can rent movies, video games and even handbags online, she thought, why not toys?
That’s the idea behind Baby Plays, a Web-based […]

10 Small Biz Technologies That Just Plain Work

Business Week Online:
There are things in life that just work as promised. Refrigerators. Clock radios. Flattery. Children’s Motrin. FEMA. Velcro. Blue jeans. Big Macs. “Seinfeld.” Jack Daniel’s.
As a small-business owner, I’m happy to say there’s also technology that consistently works. None of it is as good as, say, a Big Mac, but there’s a bunch […]

Greeting Card Designer Finds Niche Market

Burlington County Times:
Walk down the greeting-card aisle at the new CVS Pharmacy on Route 130 and you’ll come across a rack of cards designed by a former township resident.
John Erving started designing greeting cards 13 years ago after the company he worked for was purchased and moved him from an outside sales position to a […]

New Law Will Help Small-Biz Owners

Air Force Times:
President Bush signed into law an expansion of small-business help for veterans and reservists.
The bipartisan initiative, now Public Law 110-186, creates new grants and loan programs aimed specifically at small businesses harmed by mobilization of reservists who are either owners or key employees, and it extends help for small-business owners, including veterans’ business […]

Turning Your Invention Into A Biz

Fortune Small Business:
Q: I invented a new way to produce electricity for which I am about to seek a provisional patent. If I get the patent, I know that there are potentially millions of dollars that could be made with my invention, but I don’t know where to go from here, and financially I am […]