Archive for the 'Profiles' Category

These 2 sisters mostly work from home to create commemorative beads from rose petals. It’s amazing the jewelry they create using rose petals!
Read more at the Courier Journal on “Rose Riveters”
Their website:Remembering With Roses

Second Edition Starting a Collection Agency, How to make money collecting money

Bedford, NH - Michelle Dunn has been nominated for a New Hampshire Business Review 2007 Business Excellence Award. This award acknowledges Michelle’s accomplishments in New Hampshire and her community. The New Hampshire Business awards recognize the imagination, industriousness, innovation and achievements of people [...]

Maggie Serrano is an entrepreneurial massage therapist to be sure.
She was donating neck massages to raise money for a sick friend and I have to tell you she did an excellent job doing deep tissue massage to work out some kinks in my shoulders.
Because local ordinances make it unprofitable to build her own in house [...]

Dragon Slayers’ Guide to Life: Via Dane
Going from over a decade of salaried work in a licensed profession where I had a clear role and status to full-time self-employment in a profession that is a bit like the Wild West was not without it’s challenges.
If you are an entrepreneur or considering making the leap, here [...]

From Niche Geek
Roderick Romero has made a thriving business out of our love for leaves–he makes treehouses. It sounds like a gig for aspiring entrepreneurs in elementary school, but Romero isn’t building structures out of old plywood, cardboard, rope and hope. His tree homes can cost as much as $60,000, and they attract clients such [...]

Update 01/15/2008: Invesp oringially launched as a virtual assistant and writing company. Since then there have been major changes. They’ve completely switched gears by offering online marketing consulting and conversion optimization services, rather than virtual assistance.  Please consult them if you’re in need of ONLINE MARKETING CONSULTING AND CONVERSION SERVICES ONLY. They are no longer [...]

Though his mom’s a school teacher, this teen dropped out of high school with his mother’s permission to pursue full time video gaming. Within a few months he signed a $250,000 contract.
He tutors aspiring gamers for $65 per hour!
Read the entire story at  the Palm Beach Post 
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Cindy Cullen has been working at home for the last 5 years, though admittedly she gets out of the house once in a while to teach a class at the local community college. Even her husband works at home. How did they do that? I thought you might want to know while announcing her new [...]

People who’d LIKE to consult with an interior designer often don’t because of the cost.
Working from home allows Interior Designer Mary Bokovoy to keep her prices affordable according to the Tigard Times… 
“I like to first see what people can do with what they already have. Sometimes it’s just a matter of rearranging things they have [...]

She plays plays the flute but never imagined that repairing flutes and piccolo’s would change her life and create a new home business!
New flutes retail for up to $2500. She repairs and sells old flutes for up to $1900.
To repair and return flutes or piccolo’s she charges $60 per hour and doesn’t estimate repair costs [...]