Stock mket shutting down with what are being called glitches. Blishers are experimenng with business mode and other variables in an effort t to st relevant and keep ad revenue cong i in. The head of more magazine teaches us that reinvention is not only possible but comfortable, especially if you can get the first lady profitable, especially if you can get the first lady on board. The magazine industry, people feel like has been in a bit of turmoil ever since the recession. More keeps gwing in readers impact, visibility. What are you doing . Y have e to keep knowing out there, trying, reinvent. I have reinvented t the magazine three times now. This is the latest incarnation. We wento a bigger size, better paper, more in depth lifestyle coverage much more visual. You have to keep moving. Business is changing fast and faster the creave side of that you have to keep up. If you sit back and think its going to come to you, good luck. I would say lot of the crisis that theagazine industry has
You ght be temedo takeer simply at face value o on e fact she is the glamorous mom on t plplaygroundnd. Dont be fooled, Susanna Quinn is the crereator oa new app calls e generating bigig numbs the veluxe generatiting big numbers. Weat down with this workg mom to find out how she turned her concept into a business making money and making waves. Susanna quinn, welcome to washington business report. You have been a big name in washington for many years. Now you are getting attention for a new reason, a startup called vluxe. What is it . Susanna t is fitness and Beauty Services delivered to your home at market price. Rebecca you were literally on the playground thinking about what busy moms needed and came up with this idea. A lot of us have good ideas but we never create a business. Talk to us about this started because it is the perfect example of an agreement organic startup. When did the idea come to you . Susanna my husband says i am a problem solver. I built a real estate biness to s
Washington Business Journal Rachel Kronowitz and rosie alnherring, nnifer nyczconr. We have had youn the show. Rachel, i have known you so ng and nev got to have you on the show. You are part of the big mentoring program inashington. Jennifer that is the s setup to talk to you. The biggest mentoring program is under the auspices of washington business journrnal tell uwhatt is. It is called mentoring monday. It is march h 30. It is basically kind of likee speed dating but for mentors. You will have a chance to meet with 40 topnotch women arnd the area and have seven minutes apiece beforore the bell rings and they move on, to get their tips and insights. Some people think that washington bususinesreport is affiliated with washington Business Journal. I am not here to promote this has we are in a professional alliance. Are different news organizations, dififferent owners, we are just big fans of washington business jouournal and one of the things i like is that your newspaper does so much
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Further after todays show, but first,t was a busy week in business new here is a look at what you need to know. On wall worrisome week street with the dizzying drop on thursday, the dowalling to points as investor concern grew as tensions grow in the ukraine and problems in china. And the showdown continues. We fight for o freedom, we fight for our independence, we fight for our sovereignty, and we will never surrender. Also this week, president obama signed a memorandum directing be Labor Department to change rules on overtime pay. The president criticized rules meant to protect higher paid executives from qualifying for overtime but are now being used to prevent even lower wage workers from qualifying. It is not matter what you do, if it is physical work like stocking shelves, it is not matter iyoure wororking 50, 60, or 70 hours a week your employer does not have to pay you a single extra dime, and i think that is wrong. It was a Bipartisan Group in the senate have reached an agreem