Child Care Center Shines in Southwestern Wisconsin

Brenda Allbee opened her first Bright from the Start child care center in Platteville in December 2005. In just two years, Allbee launched a second center in Cuba City and plans to open a third in Boscobel in June.
Allbee credits her success to her exceptional staff and the strict standards and policies she has [...]

Kathy Gendel: Success in the Undergarment Business

Ever watched QVC? One of QVC’s best selling products is Breezies Intimates, a line of undergarments created by Kathy Gendel. Breezies Intimates is a wide range of undergarments sold exclusively by QVC.
What sets the Breezies apart is the patented fabric used in panties and bra linings. More than underwear-as-sexy-objects pitch like Victoria Secret, Breezies positions [...]

Menus that Talk

Menus that Talk is a Florida company with an exciting new product that elegantly addresses a host of restaurant ordering issues. Using the cleverly designed device, diners turn a paper menu into an auditory experience including words and music. Buttons are grouped by course and labeled with easy to see identifiers. A boon to the [...]

Combine motherhood with a high tech online business

Having worked for two years for a streaming video provider, Cary had accumulated enough experience in the field to know what services could make a difference to consumers. She realised there was a gap in the market for safe and affordable video streaming for consumers and small businesses and ‘Mydeo’ was born.
The business was financed [...]

Vanessa Phillips Surfs the Web to Unprecedented Success

Vanessa Phillips’s company, OutSec Limited, provides online digital transcription.
Vanessa PhillipsVanessa enjoyed a successful career in banking and eurobond sales before deciding to move into a more exciting position. Selling space for various London publications, she relied heavily on the cooperation and participation of her sales team, who had much lower standards than herself. To avoid [...]

Shakara Ledard Not Only Models Clothes, She Designs Them

Shakara Ledard’s label “ROXS” offers a new brand of luxury street clothing, all sporting her wildly original trademark style. With its rock, punk, funk and urban influences, ROXS (pronounced “rocks”) is aimed at hip younger women, aged 22 to 35, who are more interested in creating their own style than following fashion. The clothes are [...]

Her Love of Horses Turned into a Successful Retail usiness

Chloe Giles runs Gee Gee Images, which specialises in Equestrian Event Photography and Equestrian Themed Jewellery. She operates an online shop which allows customers to purchase additional photos, bespoke personalised photo art products, and her equestrian themed jewellery. Read more about Gee Gee Images and a special offer for everywoman members.
Chloe GilesChloe has always had [...]

Kerrie Keeling Transforms Disaster into Design

Kerrie Keeling’s company, A Woman’s Touch Limited, offers a variety of home improvement services including Interior Design, Project Management, plumbing, tiling, plastering, and flooring.
Kerrie is business-minded leader. Graduating from Leeds University with honours she followed the traditional path entering the field of Investment Banking at JPMorgan.
With her high credentials and expertise, she quickly ascended the [...]

From Nursing Needs To Big Business

The Go! Pillow is quickly becoming a well known product amongst many parents. Made by a mom who was just looking to solve her own needs, she soon found that their was a market out there for her nursing pillow and got the help she needed to become the business she is today. Sold under [...]

Computer Moms Business

Have you ever wondered how and why a business developed into a franchise? Every company is different but we recently chatted with Georgia Jones, Founder of Computer Moms, the highly successful computer mentoring service that helps everyone from the small business to the stay at home mom learn everything from how to turn on a [...]

Kate Moss Cloth Business

Moss is another model-turned-designer. The supermodel’s fashion line launched with British retailer Topshop in May, and the collection was a huge hit. A second line of summerwear went on sale in June, and a fall collection is planned for late summer. According to Topshop, Moss is involved in the designs and draws on her years [...]

M by Madonna Design Line at H and M

The Queen of Pop teamed up with low-cost high-fashion retailer H&M in March to launch M by Madonna, available in H&M stores in 26 countries. Madonna serves as model, pitchwoman, and designer for the line, which she described as “casual but naughty, sensible but sexy.” The partnership began last year when the Swedish clothing chain [...]

Christy Turlington and Her Nuala and Sundari Biz

Christy was aged just 13 when she was discovered whilst horseback riding by photographer Dennie Cody who sent her photos to a local model agency. She signed with a small San Francisco agency and did small assignments during school holidays. She later signed with the Ford agency but decided to finish her education (at Monte [...]

Jennifer Lopez and Her Sweetface Fashion

From lemon liqueur to clothing lines to real estate development, celebrities are launching their own businesses from scratch, instead of simply licensing their names to the highest bidder. We take a look at what 20 stars started and where they are now.
The singer and actress had long dreamed of starting a fashion line when she [...]

Bikini Business

Thales Panagides was born in Ames, Iowa, but he’s far from there now. He calls home base his apartment in the beachside city of Fortaleza, Brazil. He’s become the largest independent distributor of authentic Brazilian bikinis in the world. He sells in 41 countries and has sold at least one bikini to customers in nearly [...]

Estee Lauder - Classy and Feminine Sales Lady

The early part of the Estee Lauder biography is a mystery. Voting records has her birth date recorded as July 1, 1908, whereas her family says she was born in 1906. She was born as Josephine Esther Mentzer, the youngest of nine kids to immigrants Max and Rose Schotz Mentzer. Her family called her Esty [...]

Earning $10.000 per month on eBay

Special correspondent Lisa Di Clemente recently spoke with Janieruth, a successful eBay entrepreneur of 10 years. Janieruth’s store on eBay is gorgeous and filled with stunning antique goodies. Many readers would like to learn how to successfully run an eBay store, and as it turned out, Janieruth had some excellent tips and pointers. Enjoy this [...]

Escape from Cubicle Nation

Nearly a decade after quitting a corporate-consulting job to start her own business, Pamela Slim started this blog to help other professionals switch to sole proprietorship. She says many of the cubicle dwellers she used to advise griped about their jobs, but were too afraid to try their hand at being entrepreneurs. For this reason, [...]

I Discovered That I’m The Toughest Boss I’ve Ever Had…

What a hard-driving boss! * What free time? * What about your health?

I’ve been self-employed for over 13 years now as a professional meeting facilitator and organization development consultant, and I’ve had several hard-won lessons over the years.However, 4 of the most important lessons I’ve learned have taught me a lot about:` who I [...]

”Back up everything” Story

The purpose of my telling this story is to help others. I wish someone had told me this when I started in business.Three little words that can save you a lot of heart ache and work are, ”Back up everything”. Back up your files, your mailing list, your important information etc.When you back up, do [...]

Gift Ideas Business

In two days it will be one year since I quite my job after 26 years of service to help care for my elderly father. The first six months, I devoted my time almost exclusively to his needs and enjoying his companionship. This was especially important to me since my Dad suffers from dementia.After six [...]

Nancy Jarecki: Success with an Unconventional Beauty Product

The best business ideas sometimes come from the most seemingly mundane problems — and providing the means to address them.
Nancy Jarecki was in a hair salon Rome when she noticed that some women after having their hair colored would linger at the door, only to leave when given small doggie bags. Asking one of the [...]

Girl Power

By Chuck Salter

Late last year, Ian Moray stumbled across a cotton-candy-pink Web site called Whateverlife.com. As manager of media development at the online marketing company ValueClick Media, he was searching for under-the-radar destinations for notoriously fickle teenagers. Beyond MySpace and Facebook, countless sites come and go in the teen universe, like soon forgotten pop songs. [...]

Great Business Ideas Can Come From The Most Unlikely Places.

Tiny works of art have proved to be big business for York woman Meagan Gardiner who turned her card-making hobby into a profitable venture.
Meagan was working as a high school teacher when she began making wildflower cards at home in her spare time. It was not long before she established a part-time business, “Cards [...]

The Errand Runners

How often has your day been so busy, that you’ve run out of time to pick up the shopping or the dry cleaning? Joanna Gilmour knows how that feels which is why she came up with the solution - her successful home based business, The Errand Runners.
The Errand Runners offers a range of services including; [...]

Loaded Brush - An Innovative New Party Idea

Imagine walking into a party filled with blank easels, painting implements and lots of music. Since April 2007 this has been the newest craze sweeping offices and parties around Perth, thanks to Cellina Prosser’s unique home based, “art jamming” business, Loaded Brush.
Cellina started her working life as a high school teacher and loved watching teenagers [...]

The Remarkable Founder of a Mail Order Catalog Business

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” This quote from an unknown author best exemplifies Lillian Vernon, the remarkable founder of a mail order catalog business that bears her name.
Lillian Vernon started her multi-million dollar business in 1951 on her kitchen table and pregnant with her first child. Since then, the [...]

Niche as a Freelance Copywriter

Every Web site needs content. An e-commerce site needs product descriptions; online publications need articles; company information site needs write-ups; and sales oriented-sites need sales copy. Content is the one constant requirement of every Web site, whatever its purpose may be. Some site owners write their content on their own, but many require the help [...]

Bizymoms Website Started as a Tool to Promote The Book

Liz Folger, founder of Bizymoms.com , parlayed her experiences and knowledge in finding opportunities to earn money from home into a successful book and website. She wrote her book “The Stay-at-Home Mom’s Guide to Making Money from Home: Choosing the Business That’s Right for You Using the Skills and Interests You Already Have” to share [...]

The Web Has Revolutionized The Wedding Industry

The Web has revolutionized the wedding industry, allowing couples to create their dream weddings online. From choosing a wedding gown to selecting a photographer to deciding a wedding registry, brides can plan their weddings right from their own computers.
Jenny Lefcourt is one of the first visionaries who saw the potential of the Web for [...]