I had not heard any negative comments on the Stores On Line program out of Utah so I decided to give them a try to set up a web site. I went to one of their seminars and got caught up in their spiel and their supposed success stories and I forgot a cardinal rule to always think it over before committing. Read more
A Groupon sweets deal turned sour after the 'Need a Cake' bakery placed an ad for 75-percent off a dozen cupcakes. Those baked goods orders turned to ten bucks instead of the regular forty. But the experience nearly shut down a business spending almost $20,000 to fulfill102,000 of the desserts. Read more
Apparently it's not the "growing city with a hometown feel" that Midway, Georgia, advertises as its city slogan: Three kids trying to raise money to visit a local water park are busted--the girls' lemonade stand shut down, forced to close by the Midway city's police chief. This is serious: The Chief cites health concerns. Where did that lemonade come from? Read more
If you think farming is centered around cows, sheep or vegetables, you're in the wrong country: The small Chinese village of Zisiqiao breeds 3 million snakes per year in farming that uses even the reptiles' gallbladders. The snake sales all started as a bit of entrepreneurship, from a man who used to hunt venomous snakes in China's mountains. Read more
There is a market for everything and the industry for the afterlife hit the U.S. spotlight when Costco Wholesale decided to introduce coffins as part of its online offerings for sale. Read more
No word on whether TSA plans to ban the new “fig leaf” underwear--designed to block that "junk" and privates at airports currently being displayed in images of new "naked Read more
Who can resist a kids’ lemonade stand? Apparently, health inspectors. It seems there’s no “American Dream” in one Oregon county—where health inspectors have forced closure of a small girl's lemonade business at a local arts fair -- shutting down the kid's enterprise despite backing from vendors. Read more