Archive for August 18th, 2009
Half Million Dollar Rent for a Hot Dog Vendor?
photo credit: Valerie Everett Slate: A hot dog vendor was kicked from the curb outside New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art last week for failure to pay his monthly rent—of $53,558. Pasang Sherpa was under contract to pay the Parks Department $362,201 a year for a stand on the south side of the Met’s [...]
$12 for a Chance at Minor Riches
USA Today: North Carolina gold tends to be small flakes. The largest found at the Cotton Patch since owner Jeff Pickett took over two years ago was 8 grams — about the size of your pinky nail. At current prices, that would be worth about $240. “Anything larger than that is a heart attack,” Burns [...]
Move Over Twitter, Entrepreneur Comes Up With Tipdrop
Star Community Newspapers: Seeing that Tweeters were posting “worthless dribble,” programmer Jonathan Leger decided to come up with a site that has focus. “People were tweeting thoughts with no application, like what they ate for breakfast or that they’re walking the dog,” he said. “I wanted to have something focus on a subject matter and [...]
Good: Most people seem to be in agreement these days that simple ideas often offer the best solutions. Here’s an invention that fits the bill perfectly. Prepara has invented NASA-technology enhanced at-home plant growers that don’t need soil. Which, if you have a black thumb and an incurable love of plants like I do, could [...]
This sounds like an interesting business idea. It’s from the UK, but could be successful here, too: What is a gnat? Basically it an airplane just like the ones the big boys in the military use for target practice, but much smaller and specifically designed to be shot at with shotguns. Imagine it. After a [...]
Home Business Gardening Service Ideas
Denver Gardening Examiner: Start a home business gardening service that fits your skill set. There are a wide variety of home business ideas for gardeners. Use your green thumb to teach others how to garden. Help seniors with their gardens or simply sell your own produce. Use one of these gardening business ideas or come [...]
WAHMs Are Finding Jobs Benefit Finances and Family
TCPalm: As the economy sputters and unemployment increases, more Treasure Coast moms are working at home to bring in extra money quickly without disrupting their schedule. Jean Jannetty of Vero Beach has been a stay at home mom for 14 years. But her husband’s construction company hasn’t been doing well, so Jannetty began looking around [...]
How To Start A T-Shirt Company
Inc.: It started with a nickname. Every day, Johnny Earle would go to work at the Braintree, Massachusetts, music emporium Newbury Comics, and every day his colleagues would call him something different. “Hey, Johnny Appleseed; Johnny Pancakes; Johnny Cupcakes!” Somehow, Cupcakes stuck. That was back in 2000, when Earle was ordering T-shirts for his metal [...]
photo credit: hellfroze We always talk about all of the right moves you should make in your business, but I feel it is equally important to talk about what to stay away from and what not to do in your business. If you have a Twitter account for your company or you are thinking [...]
Getting into the Direct Sales Business
The following is a guest post by Andrew Shure, the CEO of Shure Pets. The first key step is to figure out where your passion lies. You will be the most successful when you have a passion for the industry or the product. Narrow down a few choices and then research companies by visiting their [...]
The Wall Street Journal: For small businesses looking for advice, the Internet provides an ideal consultant: the consumer. All sorts of start-ups and small companies are using the Internet to involve customers in decisions on everything from what to sell, how products look and work, how much they cost, and even how the company operates, [...]
Katydid Collections Offers Fashions That Men, Women, And Children Can Love
An average of 18 out of every 1000 pieces of luggage don’t make it to their destination on time. Furthermore, 0.075% of luggage is lost forever.* Of those misplaced and permanently lost pieces of luggage, how many of their owners would you say found inspiration for a business? I can think of at least one. [...]
