02-11-2006, 12:08 PM
Quote:Two Maryland online retailers  Comfort1st of Columbia and frednecks.com of Frederick  are far from being in same league as Amazon.com, but they have fashioned a growing business model built on doing most of their own online marketing.
Comfort1st.com has grown from a part-time endeavor specializing in selling razors that grossed ÂÂin the thousands almost six years ago for partners Zack Mond and Mitchell Hyatt to a full-time corporation with 10 employees annually grossing in the millions and selling a full range of consumer goods, Mond said...
On a smaller scale is frednecks.com, which features Frederick-related T-shirts, bumper stickers, baseball caps and the like. The business is a part-time endeavor, with âârevenues ... enough to cover costs and a small profit,â said founder and operator Michael Cross...
full article: http://www.gazette.net/stories/021006/bu...1914.shtml