| Reinventing The Shower: RoboShower Posted: 22 May 2012 04:30 AM PDT 
SFGate: The RoboShower™ is rectangular in design with over 20″ double-wide adaptable and one-of-a-kind head. This is to ensure that practically anyone will be able to receive adequate coverage of water flow while showering. Inventor, Mr. Audie Norr, did however keep a host of body types and sizes in mind with the design, and equipped the RoboShower™ with the ability to go from rectangular to a triangle shape to allow users to be able to manipulate the RoboShower™ to best fit their coverage needs. The RoboShower™ also comes packaged with a shower Extension Arm and plumbers Thread Seal tape for security and mounting. The colors of choice for the RoboShower™ are silver and blue. RoboShower™ inventor, Mr. Audie Norr, had two primary goals in mind when designing the RoboShower™. He wanted to provide the general public a shower system that gives options for waterfall coverage with the ever growing differentiation of body sizes of consumers today, as well as provide a shower system that was eco-conscious by saving on overall water usage.
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| Franchises: Lil’ Angels Posted: 22 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT 
The Commercial Appeal: Entrepreneur magazine recently named Lil’ Angels among its Top 500 Franchises in the country. It was the sixth time in a row the business was identified in the listing. The business, which partners with 78 of its franchises across the country to provide photography of children in day care and similar settings, got its start in 1996 and was based in Memphis until 2010. Since that year, the corporate office has functioned in space near Kroger at 6831 Crumpler in Olive Branch. Lil’ Angels holds its franchise schools offsite, however, most recently at a hotel meeting room. The budding entrepreneurs don’t have to start out professionals to be part of the Lil’ Angels family of home-based studio franchises. In fact, owners prefer a clean slate on which to write.
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| Entrepreneur Reviving An Old Craft In India Posted: 22 May 2012 03:30 AM PDT 
Women’s eNews: Jan became interested in namdas during a research project on declining crafts while getting her master’s degree at the Craft Development Institute in Srinagar, Kashmir’s summer capital. As part of her research, Jan was required to introduce innovations to increase the marketability of Kashmiri namdas. So instead of using local wool, she used 100-percent merino, a type of sheep prized for its wool quality. She also used dyes free of azo compounds, a chemical used in dyes for its vivid colors, so they wouldn’t be harmful or bleed. “You can hand wash our namdas,” she says. “They won’t lose their color. You can even vacuum them, things you can’t do with the ordinary namda you find in the market these days.” For embroidery, she opted for a superior thread and a style called crewel, often used on curtains.
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| Today in Entrepreneurial History: May 21 Posted: 21 May 2012 10:30 AM PDT 
On this day in in 2000, Mark Hughes, the founder and CEO of Herbalife died. Herbalife is a global nutrition, weight management and skin-care company who’s products are marketed through a network of 2.1 million independent distributors. In February 1980, Mark Hughes began selling the original Herbalife weight management product from the trunk of his car. Hughes often stated that the genesis of his product and program stemmed from the weight loss concerns of his mother Joanne, whose premature death he attributed to an eating disorder and an unhealthy approach to weight loss. His goal was to change the nutritional habits of the world. His first product was a protein shake designed to help people manage their weight. He structured his company using a direct-selling, multi-level marketing model which attracted thousands of distributors (Herbalife Independent Distributors) who sold its products door-to-door or through word-of-mouth, without relying on commercial distribution in retail stores. The company’s slogan, “Lose Weight Now, Ask Me How”, became a marketing theme for distributors, featuring heavily on badges, flyers and posters. Early methods to recruit distributors included seminars, which would feature distributors giving health and weight loss testimonials on the Herbalife products and a keynote address by Hughes. By 1982 Herbalife had reached USD 2 million in sales and had expanded into Canada. Mark Hughes died at age 44 of an accidental overdose. via Wikipedia. 
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