Well, we made it through another Black Friday sale. It was a busy week, but successful and very well worth it. We increased sales and also took advantage of a few ourselves. I hope you all received some great deals as well, but more importantly I hope that you had a great Thanksgiving with your friends and loved ones.
We take pleasure in announcing that Correda Rizer, the owner of Custom Flipz, is the recipient of the 10th Small Business Grant. With her impressive enthusiasm for providing affordable housing with a "custom" fit that accomates people of all financial backgrounds, she impressed our regulars and stood out amongst many other small business owners. Congratulations on her well-deserved win.
We take pleasure in announcing that Megan Dean, the owner of Moth Attack, is the recipient of the current Small Business Grant. With her impressive enthusiasm and love for building and designing custom steel bicycles and components, she instantly grabbed the hearts of our regulars and stood out amongst hundreds of other small business owners. Congratulations!
For small business owners, the new world order of social media can seem intimidating, if not confusing, but that is no excuse not to explore it. When Social Media can offer very powerful marketing tools that are often extremely affordable, and in many cases FREE, how can you afford not to? We here at WOMbeat! have built social media into our overall strategy, and the payoffs have been tremendous from day one.
First of all, let me say how excited we here at WOMbeat! still are over the Idea Café “Innovation & Originality Grant” win. Not only did this win help us see a tremendous growth in traffic to our site, but we continue to get more coverage because of it. In fact, last week we were one of the guests on a talk-radio program called the Ceo Lounge. Listen for yourself here
WOMbeat!, an online source of recommendations for local businesses from people you know and trust, and an enterprise sparked by a dream, is the winner of the latest Idea Cafe grant. Congratulations! WOMbeat! submitted their nomination in November, and during the month-long voting phase of the grant they emerged as the leader, with 25.66% of the votes. They are followed by another exceptional business, PALS with PAWZ, who got 20.86% of the votes.
The poll for deciding the winner of the Idea Cafe Innovation and Originality Grant has been online for almost a month now, and we have received a significant number of votes. Below you can see the current distribution of votes. Trends are starting to appear, with one company pulling ahead as the strongest candidate for winning the grant, but there is time until January the 15th for the overall picture to change. See the preliminary results below.
Leah Larson and YALDAH magazine won the previous Idea Cafe grant back in September. Now, the magazine has won the Well Fargo's Someday Stories contest (and $100,000), after receiving more than 28,000 votes. Leah started working on YALDAH magazine when she was 12, targeting an audience of Jewish girls.
We at Idea Cafe are proud to have selected her as a winner for the Kent Capener grant, and hope her story will be an inspiration to entrepreneurs of all ages. Read below for an exclusive Q&A.
Well, we made it through another Black Friday sale. It was a busy week, but successful and very well worth it. We increased sales and also took advantage of a few ourselves. I hope you all received some great deals as well, but more importantly I hope that you had a great Thanksgiving with your friends and loved ones.
We take pleasure in announcing that Correda Rizer, the owner of 
