Archive for June 3rd, 2009
A new pizza vending machine will cook an entire pizza with fresh ingredients, flour, water, tomato sauce and ingredients in less than three minutes.
In this global world there is an enormous demand for people to communicate in multiple languages. Language Champs is a system and methodology for teaching a second or third language that is currently being implemented in schools and centers located in Australia. The languages offered include English, Chinese, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian [...]
BabySteals.com Allows Parents To Stock Up For Less
Anyone parent and parent-to-be is likely to know what it is like to prepare for a new baby. The preparation alone can be tiring but the cost isn’t much better. Babies tend to be expensive but, thanks to a website called BabySteals.com, new parents and parents-to-be simply need to visit the website at 9am every [...]
Health Insurers Refusing To Change Policies
photo credit: Todd Huffman One of the biggest problems today is the number of uninsured individuals in this country. Many small businesses can not even afford to offer insurance to their employees because of the cost, which in turn makes it impossible for the individual to afford it on their own as well. Larger insurance [...]
Entrepreneur: Keyword research is incredibly effective for market research because the main reason people use search engines is to find solutions to their problems. And people with problems might be willing to pay money to solve them. But there are so many ways of expressing the same problem. “Cat food” could also be “cat treats,” [...]
Kelly Ripa (from Live! With Regis and Kelly) is teaming up with TLC and HSN to find women with great ideas and prototypes. If you have a brilliant product and a working prototype, TLC and Kelly Ripa want to help you manufacture, market and sell it on the Home Shopping Network They are seeking women [...]
How To Handle Difficult Employees
photo credit: mackenzienicole These difficult people harass you and others, ask too many self-explanatory questions, neglect details, distract you and repeatedly challenge you and others. Even worse, when they interact with customers, vendors and people lower than them on the corporate hierarchy, they can be grouchy, impolite, condescending, uninformed, misleading, inappropriate or simply wrong. Do [...]
Here’s an interesting idea out of India: ATV. Basically it’s a business opportunity TV network that is run on late night Indian television as an infomercial. Their advertising and sponsorship PDF is here.
Weird Invention: Treadmobile When you imagine walking on a treadmill, you don’t envision yourself your traveling anywhere, right? The inventors of the Speedfit Treadmobile obviously don’t think inside your box, because they’ve invented a treadmill that travels! See the video below.
10 Ways to Promote Your Online Business
photo credit: Jesse757 If you have a home-based internet business you need to get the word out and attract people to your site. There are several ways to do this. Just remember to have a budget and stick to it. Make a plan and do something every day to promoteyour business. It is a competitive [...]
Green Irene Joins Direct Selling Association
Green Irene a popular eco-friendly network marketing company we’ve written about in the past, has been approved as an official member of the Direct Selling Association. Green Irene, a national eco-consulting company, completed a one-year rigorous approval process culminating with the approval of its membership by DSA’s Board of Directors. DSA is a highly regarded [...]
5 Tips For Entrepreneurial Students
Savvy Auntie: 1) Save for your dream. It’s coming I started my company on the small inheritance my late mother had left me when she passed away 20 years ago. This was the savings I would nuture and grow and one day, when the time was right, finally put towards my dream – whatever that [...]
Entrepreneur: In many parts of the country, this business tends to be seasonal, but you can find ways around that. Rent a storage unit and offer to store people’s bicycles over the winter after you do a tune-up and any needed repairs on them. If you want to cater to the Lance Armstrong wannabes, you [...]
Recession Fuels Frugal Mommy Bloggers
photo credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com Breitbart has an important story about the rise of the Frugal Mommy Bloggers today. The recession is clearly fueling the popularity of mother-oriented blogs that focus on penny pinching. But it’s difficult to estimate how many there are because many female bloggers who used to limit themselves to such areas [...]
photo credit: ttarasiuk Now this is an interesting idea. Juridica Capital Management invests in lawsuits. The investing companies say that because they do not take control of the lawsuit from the company and lawyers waging it, their most important task is identifying cases likely to produce a substantial return. That means, for example, rejecting claims [...]
Inc. magazine is getting ready to start their 4th Annual Best Lemonade Stand in America contest. If you’re between 5 and 12 and live in the United States you can enter your stand starting on June 18th. So find the perfect spot, taste test those recipes, build and paint your stand, and craft your pitch, [...]
‘Work At Home’ Jobs That Really Work
ABC15.com: The hottest Google search right now is “work at home.” Experts warn many work at home jobs are scams, but some are legit and could work for you in a down economy. “I love working at home,” said Treena Scism who works from home for VIPDesk.com. Scism works as a virtual concierge of sorts. [...]
GDP Hints Recession Is Moderating
Reuters: The U.S. economy shrank slightly less in the first quarter than initially estimated, while corporate profits rebounded, according to government data on Friday that pointed to moderation in the recession. Perceptions that the worst of the 17-month-old downturn was over pushed consumer confidence to its highest in eight months in May, and a report [...]
