Start-Up
Small Home Business Company Using YouTube Video Marketing For Big Gains
Now with the social networking websites such as YouTube and MySpace, coupled with the advances in video online technology the time required to reach a tipping point has accelerated. While Madison Avenue advertisers are looking for new ways to break through the noise smaller companies are using their creativity and low-budget production to stake out [...]
Want Your Start-Up to Be Successful? Appearance is Everything
A new report highlights the importance of making new businesses appear credible to employees and customers. The success of an emerging business depends largely on the owner’s ability to convince potential employees or customers that the nascent company is operational, according to new research. “People are likely to buy products, work for, and give money [...]
Mothers Hit The Market With Invention
Called Days Ago, the tiny, reusable counter ticks off days while it’s attached to your leftovers or fish tank by a magnet or suction cup. While feeding a baby, Debbie Stauffer and Kathleen Whitehurst came up with an invention that landed them a spot on “Oprah,†an article in Good Housekeeping and a hit new [...]
Teen-turned-entrepreneur has favorite ‘Subject’
Turning a longtime passion into a business is fairly common. But for skateboarder Corey Worrell, it happened earlier than most. The 16-year-old Colfax High junior has created Subject Skateboards, a home-based company that makes and sells boards, T-shirts, hats and buttons. Corey’s interest in skateboarding began when he got his first board, at age 6. [...]
Voice Advantage
Every business owner knows it: If you could just talk to prospects one-on-one, you could convert them to customers. Click-to-chat and click-to-call features, of course, have existed for years, but now there’s a new, more viral twist. Starting today you can test out a new service that attempts to combine the best of social networking [...]
CreditCovers: Skins for credit cards
It was really only a matter of time before this happened. For years now, we’ve all been using bank cards, credit cards, and other forms of plastic currency to buy all manner of vinyl decals and skins for MP3 players, laptops, car windows, and countless other sticky-friendly surfaces. Isn’t it about time that our little [...]
Dad-Inventor Creates New Baby Care Product
Engineer turned stay-at-home-dad creates a simple tool to help tired new parents remember the basic details of baby care. When a new baby arrives, mom and dad’s brains seem to turn to mush; lack of sleep makes it challenging to remember the simplest things. Greg Sheldon learned this two years ago when he and his [...]
