Archive for August 24th, 2006
Want a Free Televsion Ad Campaign?
Spot Runner launched a sweepstakes this week giving local businesses the opportunity to win a complete television advertising campaign, including: an ad of their choosing from their library personalized to your business $5,000 worth of television airtime a consultation service with one of our media experts and a portable DVD player. Entering the sweepstakes takes [...]
Smaller Colleges Bypassing TV For Web
Associated Press: When Yale football coach Jack Siedlecki goes on a national recruiting trip, he hears the same questions over and over from parents.”They always want to know, ’Are you on TV? Can I get the games?’” Siedlecki said. The answer is usually, “No.” The big TV networks simply aren’t interested in the little Ivy [...]
Tours Based on Entertainment Finding A Niche
Redding.com: A ride through the countryside on a magical train, an elaborate banquet and a visit to an ancient castle that doubles as the site of a school for witchcraft and wizardry. Sounds like the stuff of books and movies. Actually, it is. Beyond Boundaries Travel, based in Colorado Springs, Colo., is at the forefront [...]
Have What It Takes To Start A Business?
USA Today: What attributes suggest someone’s a good candidate to start their own business? A college degree doesn’t hurt, though dropping out didn’t stop Bill Gates from launching the world’s biggest software maker. Being rich would solve the problem of startup financing, yet Sam Walton got his start in business on not much more than [...]
Springwise: Sophie & Sophie is a Dutch wine for women. Actually, it’s not quite wine, but a wine ‘refresher’ made from wine (51%), dealcoholized wine (31%), and grape must (18%). Must is the juice of freshly pressed grapes, before it’s fermented into wine. Which leaves a drink that tastes like semi-dry wine, but only contains [...]
Make Millions Transporting Kids Luggage
Unusual Businesses Ideas That Work: This week, thousands of kids will be returning home from summer camp — without suitcases, duffel bags, tennis rackets, or even their dirty clothes. Much of the baggage will be delivered back to their homes by small firms that have made a business of transporting campers’ bags to and from [...]
