Archive for June 5th, 2009

Why Didn’t I Think Of That Why Didn’t I Think Of That

Here are some unique products to amuse and inspire. The Hand Fitness Trainer Slips on like a glove, elastic bands provide resistance. Whatever happened to good ol’ tennis balls? Reversible Doormat Perfect for your bi-polar friends. LED Cord Mirror Now if I can just figure out which cable goes to what. Zipit Motorized Clamshell Package [...]

 

Lessons Learned From Bootstrapping Lessons Learned From Bootstrapping

photo credit: Damon | Photography Tim Berry recently participated in a student interview asking him about his and his wifes success in business, their secrets and the lessons that they learned throughout their 22 year’s of experience in bootstrapping. Although he felt that his answers were not as good as they could have been, he does [...]

 

Biz Resource: Free Biz Forms and Templates Biz Resource: Free Biz Forms and Templates

Make Use Of: Here is a website with an inventory of over 500 business forms and templates available in Word and Excel formats. All templates are free and can be downloaded without any restrictions. Navigate to the page, hit the download button and you’re done. To find a form or template you can search or [...]

 

Ways That People Respond To Content Ways That People Respond To Content

  photo credit: barnoid A recent guest post by Rajesh Setty describe the different ways that people tend to respond to one’s content. We all wonder after writing content who will actually read it, who will leave a comment, who is going to subscribe to the blog and so on. Below are some of the most [...]

 

MBeze Keeps Women Smelling Fresh With Deodorettes & Other Great Skincare Products MBeze Keeps Women Smelling Fresh With Deodorettes & Other Great Skincare Products

The skincare business is a tough business to break into. It is overloaded with competition and big brands. However Mary Beth Worzella has done pretty well. With a flagship product like her deodorettes, MBeze has effectively separated itself from the competition. They not only do the job but the packaging looks good too. Tell us [...]

 

SAHM Brings Hollywood Style To Louisville SAHM Brings Hollywood Style To Louisville

24-7 Press Release: Robin L. Hahn, a stay at home mother of 3 young children, changes the face of the local home party scene with Stella & Dot. The Stella & Dot look is fabulous and contemporary, and comes straight from the pages of the latest fashion magazines. “Stella & Dot is only available through [...]

 

Questions For Entrepreneurs To Ask Themselves Questions For Entrepreneurs To Ask Themselves

photo credit: Stéfan When being in business for yourself, there are so many different territories that one has to have control over, so many different decisions to make and ideas to come up with for products and services. Below are a couple questions that OpenForum feel’s every entrepreneur should ask themselves at some point. Question [...]

 

Assessing Problems And Finding The Solutions Assessing Problems And Finding The Solutions

photo credit: Foreign and Commonwealth Office When you hire a consultant to come into your business, you are basically paying them a large fee to listen to your employees and then relay the infromation to you and vice versa. Why spend that money when you can do the same thing for free? It’s really quite [...]

 

Home Biz: Personal Concierge Home Biz: Personal Concierge

Entrepreneur: This business is for someone who is supremely efficient and has the ability to make things happen. People who hire you will expect things when they want them and you need to be able to come through with not only what they want, but with a personal touch and a smile on your face. [...]

 

Invention Helps NHL Teams Keep Clean Invention Helps NHL Teams Keep Clean

PRNewswire: When life throws you lemons, go ahead and make lemonade but take it one step further and open a lemonade stand!” says Mike Antinozzi, laid-off technology worker and Founder and President of Fresh Gear by Ozone Nation Inc. Antinozzi has developed a machine that disinfects and deodorizes bacteria-infested sports gear worn in hockey, football [...]

 

The BBQ Cleaner The BBQ Cleaner

If you enjoy working outdoors, but don’t like plants enough to be a gardener, then maybe the BBQ cleaning business is for you? Anyone can take a sponge and a pail and say they are in the barbecue cleaning business. But The BBQ Cleaner offers a complete mobile business system that will help you start [...]

 

Biz Poll Results: Credit Crunch

The Wall Street Journal: Nicole Pritikin, the owner of an online knitting and yarn shop in North Bennington, Vt., was so happy with her credit card from Advanta Corp. that she praised the company in its 2001 annual report. “The checkbook is history!” she said. Since last week, though, she has switched her automatic bill [...]