Archive for April 22nd, 2009
Reader Mailbag: Start A Retail Biz?
Joan writes: How much money (do I need) to start a small retail business? What are the pros and cons I should be looking out for? You could start a retail business for as little as $10 or as much as $1.5 million for a national fast food franchise. Other questions to consider are do [...]
Tampa Tribune: Even when they’re off, many of your home office electronics are adding to the total of your power bill. Conserve energy and save money this Earth Day by switching off electronics and using less energy. But truly turning off the power isn’t as easy as flipping a switch. Many household electronics, known as [...]
Mompreneurs Looking To Increase Profits & Free Time Now Have FSM Magazine
WebWire: Women’s intuition is powerful but often overlooked. Pair it with business savvy, an eye for detail and a little humor and you have FSM, a magazine for all the mompreneurs out there juggling a business and family life. More than 90 percent of the Moms who have acted on at least one tip in [...]
CNNMoney: Nine million elderly Americans experience chronic falls, often leading to hip fractures and, occasionally, to death. Treatment currently only occurs after a fall, as there is no widely available way to diagnose poor balance in the elderly. IShoe plans to manufacture free-standing and mobile devices that detect balance deterioration, allowing those at risk to [...]
Invention Helping Seniors Get Plugged In
The Washington Post: Two young inventors, with the help of hands-on testing at a retirement community, have created a device that they say might change the way older Americans get news and entertainment. Using modified MP3 players, computers and large touch-screen monitors in high-contrast colors for people with impaired vision, Charles De Vilmorin and Herve [...]
Fortune Small Business: Sweetriot produces chocolate treats for the health conscious and fair-trade fanatics – “rioters,” as CEO Sarah Endline calls them. You may have seen the bite-sized tasties in Whole Foods, where Endline has seen 100% sales growth each year since 2005. Lately, the brightly colored tins designed by local artists have started popping [...]
A Better Bottled Drink Dispenser?
photo credit: Etwood Loyd Schutte has described an interesting idea on the Resource Action Program’s Green Living blog: We’ve all seen the vending machines in supermarkets that allow you to refill big 3-5 gallon bottles of water and some even refill the smaller 1-5 liter size, but how about a vending machine that not only [...]
Pet Entrepreneurs Earning Big Bucks
suite101.com: Despite those cheering pictures of Bo, the Obamas’ new puppy, there’s nothing soft and cuddly about the pet industry. It is worth billions annually, a fact not lost on countless entrepreneurs who have started pet-related companies. In some cases, all that’s needed is a stove, a sewing machine or a willingness to walk or [...]
The Wall Street Journal: Next year, the organization that oversees the Internet will start selling rights to an unlimited number of new top-level domains — the suffixes like .com that appear at the end of Web-site names. Domains likely to appear include those that take their names from popular subjects, types of businesses and geographic [...]
Niche Marketing Tips For Business Success
photo credit: zenera The following guest post is by Alisa Johnson. Recession and business are not the best of bedfellows, but there’s a certain kind of business that does do well no matter how bad the economy is in general. And that’s a niche business, one that offers exclusive services and products to a targeted [...]
