Sarah J. Doyle | September 20, 2008
Those in the crafting business will love this post; however I believe the rest of us could use this information to help teach our children and grandchildren a little bit about sewing and crafting. These quick and easy projects could easily be done by middle school age children, AND give them something they would be [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | September 19, 2008
Maria Rodriguez loves to sketch dresses and tops. Classmate Briena Pocevicius thought about opening a dress shop filled with her own creations. By the end of their advanced sewing class, Maria, 15, and Briena, 17, will have made hand-tailored outfits.As Fashion Week in New York wraps up today, the Omaha Bryan High School students represent [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | September 18, 2008
Great customer service drives business, and Skype-enabled call centers make great customer service affordable. With no hardware, software or installation, you can be a mouse-click away from advanced call center capabilities that give your customers options, such as live business chat, email, toll-free support, interactive voice response, and click-to-call web integration.Skype’s service is an exceptional [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | September 17, 2008
You know times are tough when the biggest children’s clothing re-sale event of the year is not well attended.Last Saturday, my daughter, the one with almost 3 year old quadruplets and a 4 year old “big brother” went to the annual “mom to mom” sale, which is held at our local fairgrounds. This sale has been [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | September 16, 2008
Vcommerce Corporation ( http://www.vcommerce.com ), the leader in SaaS end-to-end eCommerce services announced today that www.hancockfabrics.com, the new eCommerce site of Hancock Fabrics, Inc (OTC symbol: HKFI), has gone live. In response to increasing need to find a broad and deep enterprise class eCommerce platform that would improve their order capture, order management and order [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | September 15, 2008
A small gift to a valued customer wouldn’t really sound like advertising, however it can have the same effect as advertising with much to gain for the business owner.Effective advertising (gift giving) creates awareness and maintains a positive image of your business. No customer is likely to forget where she was given special status, and will [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | September 14, 2008
I ran across a unique looking bound buttonhole tutorial at The Sewing Divas blog and thought I’d pass it along. If you would like to provide something special for your customers, this could set you apart from all the rest. I figure this would be one of those “practice a new technique before trying on [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | September 13, 2008
For a fit that flatters – use the Shape-A-Dart on commercial patterns to adjust the cup size to YOUR cup size.Why use Shape-A-Dart? Misses size patterns are made with a standard “B” cup and half sizes are made with a standard “C” cup. If you wear a Misses size pattern and wear an “A”, “C” [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | September 12, 2008
Quilting might seem like something Aunt Bea from The Andy Griffith Show would do with her friends, while dishing the dirt about the inhabitants of Mayberry. Princeton resident and former Wall Street Journal reporter Meg Cox begs to differ, however.It is anything but elderly ladies bending over wooden hoops, needles in hand.In her third book, [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | September 11, 2008
At age 12, Nancy Rosen — now Nancy Minsky — drew on paper and then created out of cotton fabric a prize-winning suit. ”(Her instructors) were astonished she did so well,” said her mom, Micki Rosen, 80, of Portland, where Minsky grew up. “If she’d made it out of wool, they said they’d have sent her [...]
