Archive for August 14th, 2007
Edmunds Gaming Google On Chevy CUV
From Jalopnik Google’s a mysterious thing in the auto webiverse. If you’ve got a good story it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll end up on top of the search giant’s search pages. Sometimes it’s so important to get ahead of the rest of the pack, you’ll do some very strange things. Like for instance Edmunds. Photo [...]
Aflac Attempts To Target Small Businesses
From PR News Wire. One of Fortune 100 companies, Aflac has launched a new advertising campaign to woo small business owners. In the first phase of the campaign, the radio advertising spot shows the small businesses owner’s life in a funny way. The ad spots are then followed by 30 second Aflac small business tips. [...]
Communication is Very Important For AT&T
From Ads of The World This is an amusing and smart print advertisement campaign launched by Alestra AT&T to promote its telephone services in Mexico. The campaign clearly focuses on the importance of communication in human life by showing some interesting examples of consequences from history pages that took place due to lack of communication. [...]
From Tech Crunch Video sharing site VideoEgg has shifted tactics to become at least the fourth company to act as an ad network for Facebook applications, reports TechCrunch. VideoEgg operates as a tool for the self-publishing of videos, monetizing those videos through ads, since its founding in 2005. Now it is positioning itself as a [...]
Cyberchondriacs Include 160 Million People
From Harris Interactive The number of people who have used the internet to search for health-related information has increased from 53 percent in 2005 to 71 percent currently, bringing the number of US adults who have searched for health information online to 160 million, according to Harris Interactive. That’s an increase from 136 million “cyberchondriacs,” [...]
From Ad Punch Fiat had recently launched this clever print advertisement campaign to promote its cargo van, Ducato. The campaign clearly aims at bringing out the increased capacity of the van. The advertisements are showing Fiat Ducato behind warehouse and huge container that gives impression that they constitute the rear end of the van consequently [...]
Why China Is Our Greatest Friend
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Struggling Young Mom Began Restaurant Chain
The Indianapolis Star: Ruth’s Chris Steak House got its start in New Orleans, led by Ruth Ann Udstad Fertel. It was 1958 when Fertel’s husband delivered a bombshell. He told her he was leaving. To support her two sons, she took a position as a lab technician at Tulane University Medical School making about $10,000 [...]
Baby Service Gives Mom Quality Time
Lower Hudson Online: With many Westchester families needing two working adults just to make ends meet, finding the time to set up a nursery and surf the Internet for the best midwives is a challenge. With this idea in mind Vera Kessler started Nursery 101, a baby consulting business that serves the Lower Hudson Valley [...]
11 Tips for Better Meetings in a Public Place
We often need to have a business meeting in a public place. Whether because we work at home and don’t have the space, or because we’re traveling and giving a number of presentations on the road, meeting outside of the office can be an excellent idea. But what if you are in charge of this [...]
The Big What If: What if Money Was No Obstacle?
The following guest post is by Siim Einfeldt of Business Advice Pro. The world is full of different business opportunities for you to learn from. It’s always a good idea to see what successful entrepreneurs are doing and then copy them. That’s how many new business ideas have been generated – by copying. But there’s [...]
Seattle Times: The birth of her daughter 10 years ago rekindled Juleen Murray Shaw’s interest in nursery rhymes, and she was struck by similarities between the rhythm of those verses and the cadence of various forms of dance. “I thought wouldn’t it be wonderful to use dance as a background for nursery rhymes?” said Shaw, [...]
Oprius: Organize and Build Your Business
Oprius is a new web-based CRM (customer relationship manager) for network marketers and direct sellers. It’s like Act, but better suited to it’s niche, and like 37Signal’s Highrise but more practical. Oprius will be launching to the public at 5PM on August 17th. Business Opportunities Weblog readers can access it early and get a jump [...]
Three-Year-Old Invents New Toy
Springwise: Entrepreneurs vying for a share of the children’s market should look out—your competition just got harder to size up! Three-year-old Mia Bergman is being credited with inventing a new product for fellow pint-sizers that could well be a hit in toy stores. Mia’s mother, along with her business partner, decided to capitalize on the [...]
How to Draw StumbleUpon Users Into Your Blog
ProBlogger: The potential for StumbleUpon to send traffic is often under-estimated, particularly by new bloggers. Unlike digg and del.icio.us, an item doesn’t need to become popular before you see immediate results. One or two votes can bring a hundred or more readers — more than a new blog might see in a day. StumbleUpon users [...]
Seven Tips For Everyday Inventors
Seattle Times: 1. You gotta believe: “The main thing is, when you have an idea, act on it, and it can start snowballing.” 2. Hit a trade show: “Get yourself to a trade show in whatever your industry is. It’s eye-opening. You can see what’s out there, how ordering works, who the key players are.” [...]
Independent Inventors Conference
USPTO: Top officials from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, successful inventors and entrepreneurs will headline the agency’s 12th Annual Independent Inventors Conference. The event will be held September 14-15, 2007 in conjunction with North Carolina State University, College of Textiles and the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation. For full story and registration [...]
$ 9.95 Extra Income On Almost Every Ebay Auction
LowAuctionSeller: Ok – What if you are selling bird feeders? The auction closes and you send an email to the customer with payment and shipping information. The last paragraph of the email says, “Would you be interested in my book, How To Attract Songbirds To Your Yard? You can read about it by Clicking Here.” [...]
How To make $9.95 Extra Income on Almost Every eBay Auction
LowAuctionSeller: Ok – What if you are selling bird feeders? The auction closes and you send an email to the customer with payment and shipping information. The last paragraph of the email says, “Would you be interested in my book, How To Attract Songbirds To Your Yard? You can read about it by Clicking Here.” [...]
Entrepreneur Daily: Researchers have found that preschoolers are already being influenced by advertising, specifically from the Golden Arches. Dr. Thomas Robinson of the Stanford University School of Medicine found that preschoolers said burgers and fries tasted better when they came in McDonald’s wrappers instead of plain wrapping, even though the food was from the same [...]
From Consumerist Today Mattel expanded their lead paint recall to include 253,000 die cast “Cars” toys. In addition, Mattel expended a 2006 magnetic toy recall to include about 7 million other toys. Poorly constructed magnet toys have been the cause of several injuries and at least one fatality. When the toys break and magnets fall [...]
United Airlines Takes 45 Minutes To Fix Plane With Duct Tape
From Consumerist How long does it take for United Airlines to get a maintenance crew over to your plane so that they can “fix” something with duct tape? The answer is 45 minutes, not including the time it took to “de-plane” the passengers. Reader Ryan writes to Graham Atkinson of United Airlines (from Dulles, where [...]
