Archive for October 6th, 2009
A Kit to Make Any Car Drive Autonomously
This strap-on kit that makes any car drive autonomously looks really neat. I’m sure that in five years, this is going to be as common on public streets as electric cars are now. Engineering TV: Vehicles retrofitted with the Pronto4 System can perform flexible roles in a tele-operational or semi-autonomous mode. The ProntoMimic Software Suite [...]
HULU.com: In five years, wine enthusiast Gary Vaynerchuk has transformed his family’s liquor store into a booming online business worth $60 million. In this video interview with U.S. News & World Report’s Rick Newman, Vaynerchuk provides the key to monetizing content, whether it’s video, audio or blogging.
Mom Finds Niche In Green Goods & Education
Crain’s Detroit Business: Heather Carmona has a pretty busy life. As director of the Woodward Avenue Action Association, she’s constantly working to bring new resources and tools to the Woodward Corridor. But she’s also a new mom, and if that weren’t enough, she’s a “green” entrepreneur. Carmona launched Pure Alternatives about two years ago. An [...]
2010 Branding And Marketing Trends To Look For
photo credit: doug88888 They’re talking to each other before talking to the brand. Social Networking and exchange of information outside of the brand space will increase. Look for more websites using Facebook Connect to share information with the friends from those sites. More companies will become members of Linkedin. Twitter users will spend more money [...]
The Holy Grail For Potato Farmers
Associated Press: From the fields of Idaho to tasting rooms in suburban Chicago, potato farmers, researchers and industry representatives are in the midst of an elusive hunt: finding a new spud for McDonald’s french fries. Seven years have passed since the fast-food giant last added a new U.S. potato variety to three previously approved for [...]
photo credit: Hamed Saber Weekends tend to slow down for most marketing systems on the Internet, so take full advantage of the lack of competitors and start marketing the most on the weekends. If your content is one of the very few on the weekends, there’s a good chance you will obtain most of that [...]
Free Business Education Online
photo credit: carbonnyc OnlineDegreePrograms has put together a pretty comprehensive list of more than 100 hundred places online to get a free business education. Some of their list includes: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT offers a ton of free classes from their Sloan School of Management. Michigan State University. MSU has an International Business section of courses [...]
Boost Your Productivity And Profits By 40%
photo credit: jmmcdgll In business we would all like to profit as much as we can, and so we are always looking for new ways to boost not only our productivity but our profits as well. Below are some tips on how you can boost your productivity and your profits by up to 40% that [...]
NPR Gets $3 Million For Hyper-Local News Initiative
TechCrunch: NPR has received $3 million in funding to launch a new journalism project that will focus on providing in-depth, hyper-local coverage on community-specific issues on an online platform. NPR received $2 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and $1 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The new funding [...]
Social Media Best Practices: Getting Started
The following is a guest post by By Veronica Fielding of Digital Brand Expressions. Small businesses are jumping onto the social media bandwagon to promote their brands. To help them become more savvy about this medium and avoid the pitfalls, I have put together a list of best practices for communicating via social media channels: [...]
Companies Beware: Online Defamation Is Serious
Kiplinger: Defending your business online can be a matter of survival. Companies that ignore damaging and often malicious attacks are taking a big risk. And the danger is growing as negative comments are increasingly being posted online in blogs, chat rooms, online industry forum boards and consumer protection and public service sites. Even small and [...]
Powerful Rules For Negotiation
photo credit: ol slambert Tim Berrys Bplans: I’ve never taken a negotiation course; not the ones they advertise in magazines, and not one in business school either. These rules are things I learned the hard way. Find the win win in the negotiation. You will never find yourself in business as a winner while the [...]
What You Didn’t Know About Venture Capitalists
photo credit: TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ Today’s start-up environment is a world in which entrepreneurs must be self-sufficient. Entrepreneurs cannot rely on getting outside money. A recent interview was recently done with Mike Moritz who is quite possibly the most successful venture capitalist of his time. There were several great lessons given out during this interview regarding [...]
Teen Heads To National Invention Contest
The News Journal: Inventor Thomas Edison was in his 30s when he invented the phonograph and perfected the light bulb. So there is still plenty of time for 14-year-old Jason Liu to make a mark with his parabolic reflector — or whatever else he might come up with before he reaches a more mature age [...]
photo credit: mikebaird Forbes.com: Crushing economic pressure on your business, unrelenting competition, crazy work hours, downsizing, slashed budgets, uncertainty. Almost every organization has been trying to do more with less lately, and it’s taking a toll. Executives and middle managers alike are exhausted by their brutal schedules and the intense demands on them. Business leaders [...]
Mom-Friendly Exercise Routine Inspires Business
The Star Press: August Roberson is smiling a lot these days. Not only does she have more energy, but her spirits are running high. She attributes it to the healthy lifestyle she and her husband, Jason, are leading with their daughters, Jocelyn, 4, and Madelyn, 2. At the core of it is a new exercise [...]
Business Strives To Help New Parents Make Their Own Baby Website
When Ryan Sakai and his wife were expecting their first child they wanted to make a website for their son that they could use to help keep friends and family up to date. During that process a seed of inspiration was planted within them. What originally started as a simple website for their new baby [...]
