Archive for September 29th, 2009
BallStars: Putting Photos and Logos on Balls
The BallStars heat transfer system offer entrepreneurs a full-color heat transfer process that can cost-effectively produce photo sports balls. Their business opportunity comes complete with everything you need to start selling sports balls. You will be able to print photos, graphics, text, logos, and anything you can imagine right onto authentic signature-style sports balls. With [...]
Groceries in Manhattan are so expensive that one guy with a truck has started a business delivering groceries. He will go to Costco and split the savings with you. Each Non-Perishable item for sale has a “Costco” price and the “Average New York City” price for the exact same item but with Costco-sized bulk packing. [...]
Somewhere between 7 and 10 percent of the worldwide adult population is left-handed. Is that a big enough market for your products? It might be. photo credit: 22280677@N07 Telegraph: While left-handed people have been catered to by a number of manufacturers, producing everything from left-handed video cameras, wallets, scissors and pencil sharpeners, this is the [...]
Not everyone is a fan of family-friendly workplaces. About 20% of employees surveyed by staffing firm Adedco, grumbled that they often pick up the slack for co-workers juggling children and career. Add some wit to that resentment and you get TheOfficeKid.com, which offers childless workers who want to duck out early a visible excuse of [...]
Brainstorm With The World’s Experts
ReadWriteWeb: GuruStorms, a new twist on the brainstorming concept which connects you with subject-matter experts instead of with the general public. The new site lets anyone post a question along with a monetary “reward” for answers. Then all you have to do is wait for the experts to weigh in. And don’t worry – unlike [...]
Associated Press: The New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Edison perfected some of his most famous inventions is reopening with a wealth of restored material. The Thomas Edison National Historical Park has undergone a six-year, $13 million overhaul. Edison built the lab and other buildings in West Orange in 1887 and worked there until his death [...]
Big fancy wedding cakes are the center of any wedding reception. Unfortunately, they’re expensive, difficult to transport and can be easily be damaged by heat and humidity at outdoor events. One company realized this and figured out a way to profit from it. FunCakes rents fake wedding cakes. Their cake is made of foam, but [...]
Sell Advertising on Their Back
Mark Cuban, billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks has a free t-shirt business idea: I was in NY for most of the week. Every time I walked past a newsstand or street vendor it disturbed me to no end that they wore their own clothing. In particularly, their own T-Shirts. Why? Because it made [...]
Kid Entrepreneur Is Making Bucks
Gig Harbor Life: Joe Hayes is something of a boy wonder. The 12-year-old, who’s just begun sixth grade at Goodman Middle School, makes body lotions, soaps and candles that he sells at the Gig Harbor Farmers Market and online under the business name Eau du Joe Bodyworks. He’s been doing it since he was 8. [...]
Fortune Small Business: Like many retailers, Jim Hobart knows the value of a good testimonial. The online store he co-founded, AlpacaDirect.com, always offered a page full of cherry-picked customer comments raving about the site’s alpaca sweaters, socks and yarn. But recently Hobart, 47, decided to take the idea a step further: He hired PowerReviews, whose [...]
Entrepreneurs Learning Tricks Of Trade
The Dallas Morning News: Ashley Roberts had the name set: Bridal Brilliance by Ashley. She’d filed her registration and ordered the business cards. She’d even found a way to advertise “Wedding Planner” on her car door. All she needed was to learn how to become one. Roberts attends a twice-weekly wedding planning class at Collin [...]
Banking By Mobile Phone Unleashes Third World Entrepreneurial Wave
photo credit: whiteafrican The Power of Mobile Money at the Economist website discusses how banking via mobile phone is unleashing entrepreneurship in the Third World. These phones compensate for inadequate infrastructure, such as bad roads and slow postal services, allowing information to move more freely, making markets more efficient and unleashing entrepreneurship…With such phones now [...]
Out-Of-Work Architect Resorts To Sandwich Board
KOMO News: On a tree-lined street in the city’s Madison Park neighborhood filled with fancy cars and million-dollar homes, Jeff Soule stands out. “I used to live here,” he said. Soule is no longer a neighborhood resident, but he returned to his old neck of the woods in search of work. And he came prepared [...]
Top Ten Tasks You Should Be Outsourcing
photo credit: jekert gwapo TargetStars blog: In order to be successful, you have to master the art of delegation. No one makes it to the top alone because success is the result of a team effort. Again, I am not trying to talk anyone out of attempting to tackle difficult tasks, but you have to [...]
Mom/Daughter Team Discover Beauty Of Change As They Launch Their Shop
Democrat and Chronicle: Pamela Hines was passing through the Rochester airport in April 2008 when she became fully aware of how fractured her life had become. As she was leaving on business, which she did on a weekly basis, a security employee told Hines that she was in the airport so often, he had come [...]
Mom Aims To Help Kids Relax Through Her Stories
Stress is a problem that everyone faces and it can have a very negative effect, especially on children. When her son was having a hard time going to sleep at night Lori Lite came up with a solution, a bedtime story that made use of proven relaxation techniques. That first story has since transformed into [...]
