Archive for August 12th, 2009
You Can’t Just Build a Better Mousetrap
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Ralph Waldo Emerson may be one of America’s most influential authors, poets, and philosophers, but judging by this saying, I understand why he wasn’t a successful entrepreneur. Better mousetraps are built every day, but waiting for the world to line up [...]
In The Shark Tank has a good recap of the first episode of the The Shark Tank: Tod Wilson of Mr. Tod’s Pie Factory was first info the tank, he needed money to expand his business to meet demand. Although he ran a profitable retail pie business over 50% of his business came from wholesaling [...]
Reuters: We’ve all heard of summer camp, boot camp, even fat camp. But how about a camp for young women with a knack for business? That’s the idea behind Girls Inc. Corporate Camp for Entrepreneurs, a week-long workshop held earlier this month in New York City for 20 girls between the ages of 15 and [...]
Do The Yellow Pages Really Benefit You?
photo credit: How can I recycle this I recently came across an article posted on Small Biz Survival suggesting that the yellow pages really don’t serve as much of a purpose for small businesses as they used to. The days of people relying on the yellow pages to find a company or service are coming to [...]
Fortune Small Business: Shri Thanedar’s job is to help companies beat the competition. His secret? Chemistry. Take Devro, a Columbia, S.C.-based sausage-casing manufacturer that was losing business to a rival with a shinier product. Devro called on Thanedar, whose firm, Chemir, does chemical analysis and manufacturing. After paying Chemir $7,000 to reverse-engineer the competitor’s product, [...]
How To Find the Right Business Opportunity
A reader wrote: How do I find the business opportunity that’s right for me? Unfortunately, not all business opportunities were created equal. Some businesses opportunities are better than others and you may be better suited for one, more than the rest. How do you decide which business opportunity is right for you? Ask yourself these [...]
photo credit: electricnude Below are some recession indicators that you may never have thought would be a sign that we are in a recession, but when you sit down and think about each one of them, they make a lot of sense actually. Movie rentals at home are up more than before. More people are [...]
Remember Where You Parked Your Car…..
Wisebread: Creativity, frugality, and, on occasion, desperation can inspire innovative uses of your phonecam/digital camera. For example, if you have trouble remembering where you parked your car, especially when you are traveling to unfamiliar places, take a photo of the car in its space and the location signs. Here are some more uses: • Capture [...]
Inventor Cooks Up Top-Notch Cutting Board
Inventors Digest: When you walk into Joe Casale’s design studio, one of the first things you notice is a bulletin board filled with sketches. “When I get an idea for a new product, I do a concept sketch and post it on my bulletin board,” he says, “so I can think about it and let [...]
Inmates Selling Jailhouse Fire Hot Sauce
Wallet Pop: Calling it “murder on your taste buds” and “lethal,” jail inmates in Florida are making and selling jailhouse fire hot sauce to the public as a way to add some spice to their food and add a little revenue to the inmate canteen. “It packs more heat than the heat,” is one line [...]
Getting Your First Customer Takes Work
Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY: In virtually every business, the first customer is the hardest to land. While the Starship Enterprise may go “where no one else has gone before,” customers follow where others lead. If you’re a consultant, prospects want to know who your other clients have been. If you’re a dentist, you’re going to [...]
Mompreneurs Are Building Empires
Atlanta Metro News: Like any small business owner, Tanya Primo-Jones spends many hours a day managing inventory, making sales calls and minding the finances of her home-based company, Primo Activewear of Alpharetta. Unlike most, she does it with three young boys underfoot. Primo-Jones is a mompreneur. She is one of an unknown but, observers believe, [...]
Gluten-Free Has Never Tasted Better
If you’ve ever had a gluten-free cookie and you were left unimpressed, it was probably because you didn’t buy it from the Helping Hands Bakery. While they are recognized as the maker for some of the best gluten-free cookies available on the market, that isn’t all they have to contribute. As the mother of 3 [...]
