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Mom knows best when it comes to kids and Rachel Brian is showing the world that they also know best in business. Especially if that business caters to the needs of a child.
Online, as well as offline, Rachel continues to grow her business, Mod Mama. Her shop is family friendly, something that her [...]
Billboard:
With CD sales dropping fast, the music business is exploring nontraditional ways to expose consumers to recording artists. Among the new sales and marketing vehicles are Tara Leigh Music Party and musicShop.
Both launched in November to target female music buyers. Tara Leigh is part of House Party, an Irvington, New York, company that stages Tupperware [...]
The New York Times:
A New York couple is betting on the idea that at least one thing is recession-proof: demand for a convenient and clean public toilet.
SitOrSquat, an ad-supported Web site and mobile application created by Danika Landers and Jonathan Glanz, delivers a handy listing of public bathrooms, from the ones at Starbucks to Saks [...]
Many individuals have been able to earn, at minimum, a part-time income by selling their handmade creations through websites like Etsy. It has given both men and women the opportunity to take something they enjoy and turn it into a small business. It also gives some parents the opportunity to stay home with [...]
Any parent of a young girl can tell you what it’s like to go through hair clips and ties, all in an attempt to help pull the hair back or dress it up. In most cases, those cheap clips and ties end up lost because they just won’t stay in like they are supposed [...]
Fort Collins Now:
Once a stay-at-home mom, Debbie Stinar filled her time with crafting, traveling to as many as 28 shows a year to sell her hand-made goodies.
Her daughter, Tracie Rydgren, got involved too, traveling the circuits through Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska, which kept them both away from home more than they liked. In 2001, they [...]
NBC Newschannel 6:
Mecinna Price is a local inventor who has turned a simple idea into a multi-million dollar business. Thursday morning she appeared on the Today show to talk about her invention and get some good advice.
She started her company with an $80,000 loan from her father-in-law and was on the Today show to talk [...]
Los Angeles Times:
Painting a jungle mural from a kit in the bedroom of her new twin grandchildren was giving the artist in Patricia Newton a pain in the neck.
Why was the lion frowning? What was with the toucan’s backward ankles? And, darn, that monkey was ugly! The former Walt Disney Imagineering designer couldn’t help but [...]
nwlanews.com:
For most people, juggling is difficult. For 20-year-old Ashley Carpenter, she juggles raising her daughter and running her own thrift store.
Those who stop by Beautiful Bowtique will find a shopkeeper that looks fresh out of high school holding a baby while haggling with them.
“I’ve always been an entrepeneur. Ever since I was little, I [...]
Market Watch:
Approaching the winter of this nation’s economic struggle, Jen Groover, fashion entrepreneur and creator of the handbag company Butler Bag LLC, credits her industry success going into the holiday season by adapting to the trend of consumers creating more worth for what they’re wearing.
Brand evolutionists like Jen Groover are meeting this need by providing [...]
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