CHARLESTON, SC November 25, 2008
/24-7PressRelease/ -- Leslie Haywood Founder and President of Charmed Life Products LLC, inventor of Grill Charms has been recognized by StartupNation (http://www.startupnation.com) as one of the top businesses in its annual Home Based 100 competition under the category of Most Innovative.
Many of the StartupNation Home-Based 100 submissions revealed that business owners are bucking the current economic downturn and finding business success in these tight times. Historically some of today's most well known businesses started in a downturn, including Microsoft and General Electric.
"The 2008 ranking shows that the home-based business is more relevant than ever. The current recession has spurred a new wave of home based businesses as a response to loss of jobs, the need for supplemental income and the sheer passion for blazing your own trail and running your own show," said Rich Sloan, co-founder of StartupNation.com, one of the leading small business networking and advice websites. "Home based businesses are the biggest block of all businesses in existence and we expect numbers to grow ever greater as extra bedrooms, kitchen tables, basements and garages become host to the innovative thinking and pursuit of success by millions of Americans."
"As a first time inventor and entrepreneur, it's truly and honor be recognized by such an amazing organization like Startup Nation. Especially in this economy, a lot of business owners are wondering if what we are doing is "right". This gives me the validation to know that I must be." Says Haywood.
The StartupNation Home-Based 100 highlights 10 top-ten lists making it not just your ordinary business ranking. From the wackiest, to the most innovative, to the best financial performers - this unique and diverse list highlights the home-based businesses that usually go unrecognized, but still play a vital role in the economy today. The ten categories for 2008 include:
• Best Financial Performers
• Most Innovative
• Boomers Back in Business
• Greenest
• Yummiest
• Wackiest
• Grungiest
• Recession Busters
• Most Slacker-Friendly
• Most Glamorous
In addition to StartupNation staff, judges for this year's Home Based 100 ranking included Adam Lowry, co-founder of Method Products, Howard Behar, former President of Starbucks North America, John Jantsch, founder of Duct Tape Marketing, Mel Robbins, host of Make It Happen radio show.
The full results of the Home-Based 100 ranking are available on StartupNation's website http://www.startupnation.com/homebased100.
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About Leslie Haywood - Leslie Haywood is Founder and President of Charmed Life Products, LLC, inventor of Grill Charms . Haywood was a stay-at-home to two daughters until April of 2006 when a very spicy light bulb moment thrust her into the entrepreneurial ring. Despite a diagnosis of breast cancer in June 2006 and a bilateral mastectomy in August 2006, Haywood launched her product Grill Charms November of the following year. Since the debut of Grill Charms , Haywood has appeared multiple times on CNBC's "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch", on Charleston ABC affiliate Channel 4 "LowCountry Live", NBC Channel 5 affiliate in Chicago and many more. She has numerous publications such as Inventors Digest, Fancy Foods and Culinary Products magazine, Parenting Magazine, newspaper features, and radio and pod cast interviews to her accreditation.
About the Startupnation's Founders - The Sloan Brothers
StartupNation co-founders and "chief startupologists," Rich and Jeff Sloan, are two of the country's leading small business experts and ran their business from home for eight years. The Sloan brothers speak frequently at entrepreneurial forums and act as sources for top media venues nationwide. They are authors of StartupNation: Open for Business, published by Doubleday, and provide their insight online at http://www.startupnation.com. The Sloan brothers are regularly quoted and featured in media such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune Small Business, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX News and many others.
About Charmed Life Products LLC
Leslie Haywood is available for interviews, for details please visit the "news" page at http://www.grillcharms.com
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