Archive for February 3rd, 2010

New Bizop Classified Ads This Week New Bizop Classified Ads This Week

New listing this week on the Business Opportunities Weblog Classifieds. Free Electricity How To Start A Battery Reconditioning Business How To Make Money With Iphone Apps How To Start A Catering Business How To Start A Daycare How To Buy And Sell Cars For Profit! How To Start A Home Staging Business How To Build [...]

 

How to Make Money From Distracted Driving How to Make Money From Distracted Driving

Driving while texting is a growing menace. As the incidents of texting-related fender benders and worse mount, 19 states have outlawed the practice. But road texting is a tough habit to break. Seeing a big opportunity, a bevy of start-ups is rolling out services that disable and divert text and e-mail while recipients are on [...]

 

Excel in One Area: Let the Rest Come Excel in One Area: Let the Rest Come

photo credit: themacinator The following is a guest post by Aditya Mahesh. I think one problem area that a lot of small business owners run into is that they try to do a little bit of everything and in turn end up doing nothing exceptionally well. They have a general lack of focus and thus [...]

 

How Much Is Your Twitter Account Worth? How Much Is Your Twitter Account Worth?

It turns out that your Twitter followers are actually worth money. Not much, mind you, but something. Techcrunch estimates that each follower is worth about 0.9 cents (9/10ths of a cent). I’ve created a little applet to compute the value of your Twitter followers. Just enter your twitter name in the box provided. After you [...]

 

Wrist Device Rewards Kids For Exercising Wrist Device Rewards Kids For Exercising

New Jersey-based Switch2Health now offers the S2H REPLAY, a fun and innovative wrist-worn device aimed at tweens and teens that allows them to quantify their level of physical activity, according to trendspotter Springwise. In addition to displaying the date and time, the device also tracks and registers continuous, moderate-intensity activity, subdividing each hour into 20 [...]

 

Superfoods For Babies Superfoods For Babies

ABC7News: Satisfying taste and nutrition can be a tough job for many new moms. Add to that a desire to keep food choices pure and organic and it can pose an even greater challenge. One Chicago-area mom is now turning this balancing act into a thriving ‘green’ business. The St. Francis Church Moms and Tots [...]

 

Ideas For Sale, But Free Is Still Enticing Ideas For Sale, But Free Is Still Enticing

Aaron Crowe over at WalletPop has an interesting look at a company selling ideas. Many things are for sale on the Internet — books, movies, car batteries and food, among millions of other things. GenApple wants to sell ideas. Are they worth it? It depends on your interests and how much you’re willing to spend [...]

 

Tackling State Of Small Biz: Community Banks Tackling State Of Small Biz: Community Banks

President Obama knows he has to help small business if the economy is going to recover. He made four major proposals directed at small business in his State of the Union speech. Rhonda Abrams at USA TODAY takes a closer look and sees what needs to be done to make them really work. $30 billion [...]

 

Peanuts on Business Peanuts on Business

Originally published on February 6, 1963