Archive for May 5th, 2009
photo credit: simiant A reader wrote: I want to start a website and sell something online. What should I sell? Any advice? If you want to start an online business and sell something, you should sell a digital product, because physical products have two real problems: Unless you manufacture the product yourself, someone else will [...]
Niche Micro Biz: We Shoot Bottles
How’s this for a very niche microbusiness: a photographer that only takes pictures of bottles. They only photograph bottles — nothing else. You send them your bottle and they shoot it and then clean up the resulting image in Photoshop and then make it available on their servers for you to download. Simple as pie.
Google’s Tips For Entrepreneurs
photo credit: Yodel Anecdotal Google recently did an article giving tips to all of you entrepreneur’s and people thinking about becoming entrepreneurs. Given the fact that google has been called the mother load of all search engines, I think it wise to take a read of the goals they mentioned. ● Don’t settle. It’s better [...]
photo credit: aloshbennett When your getting ready to start your own business, you realize there are a million and one thing’s to do before it’s all said and done. So naturally you want to tackle as many of these tasks at once so that you get them accomplished faster.Web Business Freedom posted a very interesting [...]
photo credit: atomicjeep Is it time for your company to do away with the Monday morning meetings, checking up on employees, reports, statistics on employee performance, etc? In a recent new book regarding a new era of work, it is suggested on Open Forum that it’s time to do away with old business practices and begin [...]
As a followup to Rich’s earlier post about making money from the swine flu, here’s the story (in his own words) of how one fast acting entrepreneur went from an idea a few H1N1 related t-shirt designs to being profiled Forbes magazine in under a week: Last Monday, the 27th of April, I noticed the [...]
Inc.: TakeLessons.com, an online service that connects music students with its instructors in more than 400 U.S. cities, is having a very good year. The company enjoyed increased same-city sales ranging from 12 percent to 28 percent each quarter of 2008 versus 2007, and 2009 looks even stronger, says CEO and founder Steven Cox. Thanks [...]
photo credit: John Kratz Joel Spolsky has written a profile of an Willy Wonka-esque retail store called B&H in New York City. It is a 70,000 square foot super store devoted to cameras and video equipment, like a Cabelas for cameras. Could you do something equally imaginative in your business? B&H opened in 1973, and [...]
Small-Business Credit Sees Thaw
The Wall Street Journal: Many small-business lenders are seeing signs of a thaw in the secondary market for loans backed by the Small Business Administration. That is spurring more lenders to originate new loans — and more small companies to apply for them. In February, the latest month for which figures are available, 35% of [...]
Invention Allows For The Perfect Goatee
Any man who has ever spent the time trying to shape his goatee will know how much work can go into it. The slightest mistake can completely destroy the look. While all men with a goatee might understand this, it took one man to build a device to solve the problem. His name is Scott [...]
After Son’s Birth, Mom Trains As Midwife
Chicago Tribune: Kate Mazzara has a passion for birth. The resident of Livingston County’s Hartland Township and mother of three has helped bring dozens of babies into the world throughout her career as a midwife, a job she chose to pursue after having her first son in 1993. “I had a baby, and I fell [...]
Gemini Greetings® Voted One of Top Leading Moms in Business
Gemini Greetings® announced today that it has been recognized as one of the top 200 mom-owned businesses in StartupNation’s 2009 Leading Moms In Business Competition (http://www.startupnation.com/leading-moms-2009). The competition, sponsored by VerticalResponse, recognizes the achievements of mothers across the country who run outstanding businesses. Gemini Greetings® is a unique company providing greeting cards and gifts for [...]
Making Money With The Swine Flu Virus
H1N1 or more commonly known as Swine flu is sweeping the country. You can’t turn on a news channel without hearing of a new outbreak. Well, some entrepreneurs are jumping on the bandwagon with swine flu related merchandise. A check today at Cafepress.com shows over 47,000 products dealing with the influenza. CafePress.com is an online [...]
Oregon Company Finds New Recycling Niche
Washington Energy Services: An Oregon company is hoping to carve an interesting new niche for itself in the recycling industry, according to recent reports. According to the Statesman Journal newspaper, Agri-Plas is using a new process developed by Oregon State University graduate Kevin DeWitt that can break down old plastic and turn it back into [...]
Inc.: As consumers slash their budgets and newspaper subscriptions continue to slide, more people are turning to the Internet for coupons. That’s good news for entrepreneurs leading the charge to move coupons online. According to a recent survey of 4,500 women by Burlington, Massachusetts-based online ad network Burst Media, coupon usage is up, and more [...]
