Small idea turns into big business for Dallas girl

[WriteDown]

Source: Dallas Morning News

If there's a tween girl in your household, chances are you've heard of the latest rage: magnetic bottlecap necklaces. <snip>

As their popularity grew, Maddie's sister, Margot, now 8, got involved. The two girls and their mom, Diane Bradshaw, would pull up stools to their granite island and make each bottlecap themselves. As they worked together, their mom says, they bonded even more, the best part of the whole experience. <snip>

So when sales reps the Klein Group approached Ms. Bradshaw, and Learning Express picked up the product nationwide, Ms. Bradshaw realized they were at a turning point.

Maddie's novel idea has now blossomed into a booming business, with 15 employees in Dallas, four sales reps and 30,000 bottlecaps being sold each month in 500 stores nationwide. They got a copyright on Snap Caps, which is patent-pending. M3 (Maddie, Margot and Mom) Girl Designs is now a limited liability company.....

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/DN-nh_bottlecaps_1123gd.ART.State.Edition1.1f6c75b.html

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Pretty cool and a national trend.

[wellst0nev0ter]

1. Ah, The New Pog

I wonder how long this one will last.

[WriteDown]

3. Its like a modular necklace...

Seems cool to me :).

[nolabear]

2. WTG Mom

Sounds like just the right combination; a good, fun idea that might make some college money for a smart young woman, and a mom that's also smart enough to know when enough is enough. Nice story. I have no idea what these things are, though, and that surprises me. I usually know what tween girls are into.

[ksimons]

4. as I lean in to my hard drive and erase it... oops j/k

[RushIsRot]

5. I have been making something similar for several years.

I wish they sold as well as those necklaces.

[NJCher]

6. cute

BTW, what is BFF?



Cher

[truthisfreedom]

7. Best Friends Forever (just asked my GF yesterday about that)

[Thothmes]

8. In a year or so, she will be demonized as one of those evil

rich, that should be taxed out of existance.

[SpiralHawk]

9. The kind of whine one might expect from a republicon homelander

rather than a reality-based American

[Winterblues]

10. Maybe they should apply for a government bail out while they are still a corporation

Or LLC, basically the same thing..