Archive for November 22nd, 2006
Trend Spotlight: Customization
Big Idea Scoop: Merchants are waking up to a new era of customer choice. Using mass efficiencies, some companies are offering mass customization—letting customers choose product/services features and design to suit themselves. Companies have found that individualized goods command a premium. Beyond that, they breed loyalty. Research firm Brand Keys has found that 30% of [...]
Starting a Post-Retirement Business
Matt Alderton at Work.com: Popular belief mandates that retirement be spent traveling, gardening and playing golf. Many “retirees,” however, crave more than that. According to AARP research, record numbers of men and women over the age of 50 — and even 60 and 70 — are starting their own businesses in search of a life, [...]
Holiday Biz: Christmas Light Installer
Entrepreneur.com: This is a great seasonal business that specializes in providing the labor for holiday decorations. Once a year an opportunity to make excellent extra money arrives–installing and then later removing decorative outdoor Christmas lights for people who just don’t have the time or the energy to do it for themselves. Start looking for customers [...]
NaperSun.com: A Naperville entrepreneur has found a way to put a stop to wind-blown recyclables with the development of a product called the Bin Keeper. The brainchild of Brian Horwath, the easy-to-use device may soon be test-marketed by Menards stores in Naperville and Plainfield and may one day even carry a patent. “I basically took [...]
Franklin, my second-born son, is one-year old today. Happy Birthday Franklin!
Entrepreneurs’ Daily Task List
Entrepreneurs Suite101: Determining what needs to get done on a daily basis, and then doing it, is a motivational issue for many entrepreneurs, experienced or otherwise. Here is a list of entrepreneurial tasks that need to get done daily. How many have you accounted for in your time management practices? Accounting Administration Computer Correspondence Human [...]
The Right Time To Schedule Online Ads
When’s the best time of day to run online advertising? Startup Journal has the answer: Most online shopping happens on weekdays between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. and then in the late afternoon between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., largely at work, according to comScore Networks, a Chicago Internet market-research firm. ComScore analyzed online shopping [...]
