The Niche Beat
Hail Caesar
Cocktails Anyone? Whether you drink or not, there are useful take-away lessons illustrated by a Canadian product manufactured in Manitoba. It’s Caesar’s cocktail drink packets. Transplanted Canadians know that ordering their favorite cocktail outside of their mother country is a frustrating experience. The drink can’t be created authentically outside the Canadian border due to the […]
Jan Accommodation
Free Self-Employment Resources for People with Disabilities Update: Here’s an interesting international site (British and US) 2017 for home. And many other topics included. Source:; Jane Smith http://householdquotes.co.uk/disability-accommodation-guide/ Caroline Hampton of Open educators.org has provided seeven links that include articles about personal finance, buying a car for a user with special needs, and getting into real […]
Building a Hair Care Business
Finding Their Niche In the early 1900s, while her competitors focused on products that straightened African American hair, Sarah B. McWilliams, who changed her name to Madam C.J. Walker, developed products that helped women of color to grow healthy hair. In the 1980s, Paul Mitchell and John Paul Dejoria started a company that focused on […]
Music Industry
Artistic & Entrepreneurial Pursuits Television chef and restaurateur Emeril Lagasse, an accomplished musician, turned down a scholarship to the New England Conservatory of Music in order to pursue his first love: cooking. However, he kept his love of melody alive, integrating it into his TV cooking shows by adding musicians on each program. John McVeigh […]
RoadTrip Nation
Avoiding Potholes in the Journey Each season, the PBS program RoadTrip Nation features several college students who drive a green RV across the United States. The students visit successful people in different fields and listen to their stories of how they achieved their dreams and goals despite obstacles. RoadTrip Nation helps students grappling with the […]
How a Whale Sank Writer’s Career
Herman Melville’s inspiration for Moby Dick was based in part on the real-life story of the New England whaling ship, Essex. Melville had written several successful novels and was considered a rising star when he submitted Moby Dick to a publisher, but critics panned the novel and the public wasn’t interested in the complex […]
Production Drama
Book Production After many, many, many, delays, and replacement of personnel, the interior design for Finding your Niche was completed yesterday along with manuscript proofing, which lasted into the wee hours. The ebook will be available through several online retailers once uploading procedures are completed. This entire process will take several more weeks. Overall, I […]
Professional Career Changers
Many professionals and executives have left jobs to start their own businesses in fields that have nothing whatsoever to do with their previous post. For example, the anthropology professor who started a cleaning service, or the corporate executive who began driving a lunch truck and wowing hungry street crowds with his cooking skills: gourmet Belgian […]
Spark of Inspiration
Finding Clues Georgette Heyer had her first novel published at 19 years of age in 1921. She’s considered a pioneer in historical and Regency Romance. And more than eight decades later, Salman Khan started an Internet tutoring service. The Kahn Academy was available free of charge to users in 2006. Test your fact-gathering skills by […]
How Do You Market Greeting Cards?
Faulty Market Research Despite producing line of top-quality greeting cards, and receiving excellent feedback, a new publisher discovered that her black-and-white photo greeting cards with custom written in elegiac verse were not selling. Lesson: Unless people buy samples of a test product, positive survey responses, may often be meaningless. Views: 160