Archive for October 2nd, 2009
Just because you can get a patent doesn’t mean you should. Dad Saddle Patent awarded: 2002 Patent says: “A number of devices have been devised for carrying infants and young children. Such devices often are not appropriate or useful for carrying larger children. Nor are known conventional arrangements adapted to support a standing child.” Jacques [...]
Google Offers Easy Translation Service
CNET News: Google is offering Web publishers a free tool for providing translation services on their pages. Lots of big companies based outside the U.S. offer English-language versions of their Web site with a click of a button, but Google’s new service actually detects the home language of a visitor to your site and offers [...]
CNNMoney: Johnny Valdene and Travis Hollman were running a toy company that sold $6 million in marshmallow shooters every year. At a trade fair in New York City they saw an attendee collapsing from what looked like a heart attack. Paramedics later told them that the man had in fact suffered an anxiety attack — [...]
Twitter’s New Tweets For Small Biz
Inc.: Twitter is open for business. The social network isn’t charging anybody for anything yet, and isn’t making any money — apart from the $100 million in venture financing it recently raised. But the San Francisco, Calif., start up is headed in that direction, with plans to offer paid commercial accounts later this year. Over [...]
Website Magazine: Those in the real estate market and those interested in buying and selling domains might find this noteworthy. Domain registrar and hosting provider GoDaddy released some statistics that indicate a surge in the registration of domains named after street addresses. Comparing 2005 (the year the housing bubble burst) to last year, Go Daddy [...]
Selling Graves Near Dead Celebrities
Metro Lyrics: The price of grave-plots close to Michael Jackson’s tomb have already sky-rocketed since the King of Pop’s funeral. A sales rep at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, says plots around Jackson’s have already shot up by up to US$3,000 each. Forest Lawn had been selling the plots in the mausoleum for [...]
Mashable: Even though Microsoft has blasted us with advertising for their new search engine Bing, we still use Google. Wednesday, we asked how often you used Google. Over half, 55 percent said they last used Google 5 minutes ago, 18 percent said 1 hour ago, 24 percent said 1 day ago and an unbelieveable 3 [...]
Generating Word Of Mouth Advertising
photo credit: oskay We all know that in business one of the best forms of advertising is through word of mouth. Many people rely heavily on what friends, family members and other random people tell them regarding a business, if someone they know love a particular business they will almost definitely go there themselves, if [...]
The Not-So-Tiny Little T-Shirt Company
Don’t let their name fool you, the Tiny Little T-Shirt Co has placed their shirts in approximately 100 locations with some more in the works. However, that wasn’t always so. It was August of 2007 when they attended their first trade show and started selling their “Life.” t-shirts. Within a few short months it became [...]
A Look At The Mom Behind Organically Hatched
Examiner.com: Examiner: What is your business all about? Shaheen: We sell the best organic baby products including eco-friendly diapers, BPA free baby bottles and feeding accessories, bath and body products, organic clothing, toys and so much more! You can find us at: organicallyhatched.com Examiner: What is your favorite product that you make or sell and [...]
