Archive for July 16th, 2009
eBay: Five Free Listings a Month
Do you sell on eBay? Starting on June 16, 2009, Auction-style eBay listings submitted through the standard Sell Your Item or Simple listing form will be eligible for new pricing which includes: 5 FREE Insertion Fees every 30 days, regardless of start price of the item* The $0.00 Insertion Fee listings will have a Final [...]
Do you like fish? Did you tend the family aquarium when you were a child? Stace Bleich did, and now he’s turned his love of fish into a successful business called Aquariums by Design Inc. He designs and installs aquariums. His company also services, maintains and moves them. When he started the business on a [...]
This sounds fun. The Bow Range is an outdoor archery park located in Medford, Oregon. Here’s a video profile from a local television news station. More from The Bow Range’s website: The fun and exciting sport of 3D Archery is a form of Target Archery. 3D Archery can be participated by anyone at any skill [...]
One niche that continues to flourish is the pet industry. Everyday new business with names like “Puppy Palace” and “Doggie Dewz” popup. According the American Pet Products Association, we spent over $43 billion on our pets in 2008. Americans spent $10 billion on supplies and over-the-counter medicine. They also also spent $11.1 million on veterinary [...]
Behind Coors’ Color-Changing Beer Cans
Fortune Small Business: As an undergraduate at Cornell University, Lyle Small annoyed his housemates by spending days on end painting their Ping-Pong table in rainbow shades of ink. He brewed chemicals to create inks that changed hue when exposed to light and heat. “I got obsessed,” says Small, now 41. “I thought all printing inks [...]
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Are you looking for a green business that you can do on the weekends and that will also help you to lose weight? Do you have a bike? If so, I Pedal Ads might be just what you’ve been seeking. I Pedal Ads is a large, eye catching 4′ x 4′ mobile billboard that can [...]
Inventor Sells Better Way To Bag
TheSunNews.com: The daughter of the man who helped invent the plastic bag commonly used in grocery stores is now marketing a product she hopes will replace her father’s invention. Kristen Brown, a Pawleys Island resident who runs her own environmental consulting firm, is already selling sets of reusable plastic bags at a local Piggly Wiggly [...]
Former Chrysler Dealer to Sell Indian Trucks
One former Chrysler dealer is turning to India to fill his empty car lot: For August Russo, owner of the Lochmoor Automotive Group in Detroit, losing his Chrysler franchise pushed him to focus solely on a new franchise he’s been working on for six months. Russo has one of three local franchises to sell Mahindra [...]
photo credit: divemasterking2000 How much does it cost to start a skydiving school? Not too much, actually: Last month Matthew Fitch [a] former Navy communications officer opened No Limits Skydiving, a parachuting school. After eight years his event-jumping business had hit a plateau of about 30 appearances per year, which generated $100,000 in annual revenues. [...]
MakeUseOf.com: Ever subscribed to a podcast where the presenter talked really slow? There are countless of podcasts on the web that would be considerably better if they were presented faster. Same applies to the audio books narrated by a really slow reader. And that’s exactly where PodShifter can help. It can easily make podcasts up [...]
photo credit: pasotraspaso There’s a 98% chance your idea will have gone nowhere, and you will still be working at your job and struggling to make ends meet. What’s the difference, then, between the 98% who fail and the 2% who succeed? One answer is that successful entrepreneurs avoid the traps that stop everyone else [...]
Great Kid Invention: CircleSoap
Examiner.com: The best ideas are often ones that come out of a need. One such invention is CircleSoaps. They were invented by a 7 year old who wanted to make it easier to hold onto his soap. Q: How did you come up with the idea of CircleSoap? Carter: I was playing with some soap [...]
Remember The Customers You Never Had
photo credit: cheetah100 We have all been there before, your browsing a store just to browse with no intention on buying anything, but then suddenly you see a product with great advertising that you just can’t walk away from. On your way to the counter to pay for this product you finally realize you can’t [...]
Mom Entrepreneurs Conceive, Give Birth To Fascinating Bizs
WRAL Local Tech Wire: Who would have ever thought that making a plaster cast of an expectant mother’s belly could be turned into a work of art, let alone a business? Leave it to a female entrepreneur to conceive the idea. Tisha DeShields of Atlanta is one of 200 working mothers who have built successful [...]
Life As A Mompreneur, From The View Of One
Practical Ecommerce: I am constantly asked what I do for a living. The answer is complicated and it can be answered in many ways, but I find no one really understands what exactly it is that I do every day. My typical answer is, I’m a Mom but I also own my business and work [...]
SAHM's & The Home-Based Business
Examiner.com: Lisa Burnham and Shannon Windsor offer some guidance to the stay at home mother who is considering starting a home based business. Approximately a year ago, Burnham decided to become a Tupperware® consultant so she could help raise money through fundraisers for her Mothers of Preschoolers group and to help contribute to the family [...]
All Natural Beauty Products That Pamper The Mom-To-Be
Moms-to-be throughout Canada are taking a second look at the skincare products they are using thanks to Kate and Paul, the co-founders of Baby Bump. When Kate got pregnant she not only gained the glow that every mom-to-be seems to have but she also discovered the extra dry skin and acne that can follow. Along [...]
