Archive for September 24th, 2009
Innovative Vending Solutions, the company behind Mobil-Tee-Vending, also has a baby product vending machine. Innovative Vending Solutions is looking for owners of our newest machine, the Baby Station. This machine is a technologically advanced vending machine that will dispense impulse baby products for parents/guardians on the go. The machine will dispense products such as diapers, [...]
How ‘Horrendous Failure’ Led To Rock Band
CNNMoney: Video game developer Harmonix just launched the wildly anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band, uniting one of the most popular video game franchises ever made with history’s biggest rock band. The collaboration is the work of a 320-employee company now owned by MTV. But it wasn’t so long ago that Harmonix’ founders — Alex Rigopulos [...]
Customised Cookies, Baked To Order
Springwise: Toronto’s Sweet Flour Bake Shop, lets patrons design their own baked treats and eat them fresh from the oven just two minutes later. More than 15,000 possible combinations face Sweet Flour customers, who begin by choosing the cookie dough base they’d like: original, peanut butter or oatmeal. From there they can choose from among [...]
Not Every Customer Is A Good One
photo credit: Mirko Macari I’m sure you have heard the timeless saying of “the customer is always right”, this usually implies that the customer is not necessarily right, however, you don’t want to loose them or create bad word of mouth advertising through them so you comply with their wishes. Entrepreneur.com: Of course, there’s a [...]
PioneerLocal.com: Jeff Niemiec just wants everyone to think pink. Toward that end Niemiec, owner of Pink Inc., turns out thousands of pink flamingos a year at his Morton Grove plant. They are the kind of plastic birds you can see decorating lawns across the country – pink plastic bodies, painted beaks and metal legs. Niemiec [...]
photo credit: orinrobertjohn The SBA needs a table that runs 37 pages plus footnotes just to define small business. via Jeff Cornwall who added: “This is just one small example why we don’t need government steering our economy and making decisions about economic winners and losers.”
Annoying Facebook People That You Don’t Want To Be Like
photo credit: Rennett Stowe The most annoying thing to me about Facebook is probably the endless quizzes I get invited to take and games I get asked to play. I’m kinda busy for all that. The “Mafia Wars” game seems to be particularly popular with people I know. I don’t know what it is exactly [...]
Ask Before You Redo Your Website
photo credit: Stuart Frisby If your contemplating taking the time and paying the money to have someone completely redo your whole website, there may be some thing’s that you should think about, consider, and ask before you give the final go ahead to redo everything. Redoing your website is a great idea, but it is [...]
Inc. Magazine Lemonade Stand Winners
Inc.: Meet the next generation of entrepreneurs! This year’s contest winners proved that they have what it takes to run a successful business, from hours spent peddling lemonade on the beaches of New Hampshire to the elaborate details that went into constructing their lemonade stands. Weekly Winner: Kamalani and Brayden Fielder, Ages 9 & 6, [...]
Has Your Work Taken Over Your Life?
photo credit: notsogoodphotography One of the interesting things about coaching is how much you learn about yourself in the process of working with clients. Many of the executives I coach are facing the same issues as me, albeit on a much larger scale: they are in a perpetual state of overload and stress from [...]
Entrepreneur: Losing is never fun. When you invest significant time and resources pursuing a deal and it falls through, it’s frustrating – and invariably causes some self-reflection. Here are 10 guidelines you can apply to your own loss analysis: 1. Interview internally and externally. 2. Choose an objective individual to conduct the interview. 3. Don’t [...]
photo credit: Mariano Kamp Open Forum: You rely on referral sources. Note I said “rely on.” Building a network of referral sources and having them recommend you to their friends and family, these are always good things. But relying on them is a big mistake. That’s because you pass control of your own destiny on [...]
Inventor’s Digest: Inventor Web sites are a way to get good information. The trick here is to be sure you have found a trustworthy site. The invention scammers often have slick, professional Web sites that lure unsuspecting novice inventors in with offers of free “invention kits.” This is information that is free on the USPTO [...]
A Look At Working From Home Through A WAHM Vetern
examiner.com: I’ve been working from my home for about nine months now, and still figuring out the ins and outs of this new situation. As it turns out, one of my neighbors has been working from home for over 12 years and has some great insight on how it works for her. Here is my [...]
Your Pro Kitchen Helps Food Entrepreneurs Get Their Business Cooking
Started by a mother/daughter team, Your Pro Kitchen offers Florida food entrepreneurs a chance to start their own professional food business. They also offer classes that will help you get your feet off the ground while you wait for your permit to be approved. Unfortunately they are limited to Florida at this time but hopefully [...]
