Archive for November 10th, 2009
Turning A Million Dollar Idea Into A Million Dollars
If you have a million dollar idea and need some advice on how to get started, a new book and an inventor’s conference may be your ticket to booming business says 9News.com. The Hoola Hoop, Crocs, Post-it Notes, The Snuggie – all simple ideas that turned into millions of dollars for independent inventors and stimulated [...]
Reuters had an interesting story about a guy who makes $85,000 per year selling ad space on a T Shirt! His business is called, appropriately, IWearYourShirt.com. And that $85,000 per year has a nice ring to it. Think you could do something like this? When you look at his pricing (no more than $365 per [...]
An ATM For Recycling Consumer Electronics
Trendspotter Springwise is reporting that of the 140 million cell phones sold in the US in 2007, only 10% were recycled, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. That leaves a mounting pile of e-waste to deal with. Offering a solution is EcoATM, an automated reuse-and-recycle machine that makes it easy and financially rewarding for [...]
Nominate Your Favorite Local Business For A Free Commercial!
You can nominate your favorite local business for a free commercial! What will that winning commercial look like? Try this one on for size: You can see the page they created for it here: Cullman Liquidators
Mom-Inventor Creates New Stroller Shade
A mom who is using her life savings to set herself up as an inventor is ready to release her first product – the Snooze Shade writes The Surrey Herald. Cara Sayer, 37, says the product aimed to make mum’s lives easier, by providing a removable shade to attach to prams (strollers). The idea came [...]
PR.com is reporting that Atek, Inc. is making a timely flu season introduction of the Touch-Stick, a key-size implement used for hygienically pushing, tapping, and signing store keypads, ATM machines, elevator buttons, gas pump buttons, and other publicly touched electronic devices. The patent-pending Touch-Stick features a flat round tip for pushing mechanical buttons, a cleverly [...]
20 Entrepreneurs Give Inspiration
Business Week has a great article on How 20 Business Ideas Were Hatched In my experience, learning as much as possible how other people do things lets you find the “model” that most directly fits your own needs and personality. Finding models, examples, case studies about ideas and procedures that worked are worth seeking out. [...]
How To Stimulate The Economy Using Your Brain
photo credit: L_Family With the current economic situation, many business owners are taking it upon themselves to publicly complain about how the stimulus money is being spent, complaining about how some companies are getting stimulus money when they don’t deserve it. All this is doing is wasting their time when they should be out there [...]
General Mills Invites Inventors
Reuters is reporting that General Mills is extending an invitation to scientists, researchers, engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs around the globe to visit the company`s new innovation portal. Visitors to the site can find opportunities to partner with General Mills on initiatives across the company`s extensive portfolio of leading consumer brands. The new G-WIN innovation portal [...]
USPTO Unveils Fast-Track Patent Plan
Inventors with two or more patent applications pending at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office can have one of their patents fast-tracked – “jumped to the head of the line,” in the words of USPTO director David Kappos – provided inventors abandon one of their less pressing applications, reports Inventors Digest. The move is part [...]
How do you change people’s behaviors? Make it fun. Watch this video and see why after one change, more people took the stairs than the escalator.
Mompreneurs Juggle Kids & Commerce
Cincinnati.com: They fix lunch, shepherd the kids to swim lessons, do the laundry and somehow find the time to create businesses. They’re Mompreneurs, entrepreneurial moms who walk the tightrope between family and business, looking after the kids and the bottom line at the same time. Maybe it’s the economy, but moms on a mission to [...]
