Be My Guest

We were introduced to the Be My Guest webpage during an interview we conducted a few months back.   The concept of operating a business at home is always unique to us being that you have to have an entrepreneurial spirit, and a creative idea that appeals to the consumer. Our first contact with Gina was though an email we had sent her after visiting the Be My Guest website.  I wanted to get more information about her product...

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A Cut Above...

Stew Leonard's is an iconic supermarket, offering the largest selection of foods and goods.  It also offers a level of service that no rival can match.  This Featured Story is about the uniqueness of an individual, and how one encounter can change the coarse of history.  It was two days before Thanksgiving 2013.  A Yertip.com Facebook Fan, posted this photograph with a short, but very important message.  "Well, ...

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The Retail Market

How do you know if the shoe fits?  It's a cliche, we know, but you really do have to try them on before you buy them.  Or do you?  We had to ask Meghan in the Shoe Department at Mickey Finn's in Berlin, CT. So what's the deal with all these cowboy boots?  How do people get their feet into those and how do they get em' out? "We have this tool called a boot jack.  You step the heal into the u-shaped mouth and place...

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Pink Elephant

Capturing the moments of a child's first years of life are so important.  It rings true when the term "in the blink of an eye" is phrased.  Finding the right place, more importantly, the right people for this job takes a stroke of luck.  The opportunity knocked at our door, by word of mouth at the right moment.   The Connection This story started one evening at a local restaurant, where by chance I had met a couple...

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Captain's Log

Do you know a "Jack Of All Trades?"  We do, and he has the skills to achieve anything he wants.  He's not a baker or a candlestick maker, he's a marketing genius and the captain of his own vessel. Gary Torello is a Haddam, CT resident and small business owner, operating 2 different full time businesses:  QGM, LLC; a web development and marketing firm that specializes in helping other businesses succeed, and Central CT Marine...

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