Archive for February 4th, 2010
We have a new advertiser in the sidebar. The Local MugSHOTS business opportunity is a local niche periodical that every other week publishes a magazine of 200 current mugshots of locally wanted fugitives, recently arrested, and missing children. I asked the owner, Max Cannon, how he got into the business: I started this business in [...]
University Finds Free Online Classes Don’t Hurt Enrollment
According to a story at arstechnica, free online courses aren’t sapping enrollment numbers—in fact, they’re actually helping to spread the word. Those are the preliminary findings out of Brigham Young University, which experimented recently by granting free access to a selection of its distance learning courses. Though further study is needed in order to see [...]
Tackling State Of Small Biz: Zero Capital Gains
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. Zero capital [...]
R/C Cars Are Wallet-Size Wonders
Cravable has a look at THE hot toy for Christmas 2010. Mattel’s super-small “Stealth Rides” aren’t making their official debut until the Toy Fair later this month in New York. They’re about the size of a credit card and the width of a cell phone, and with the push of a button they unfold into [...]
Build A Walking Work Station For Under $20
Back in January we showed you a $479 desk that you could place over your treadmill so you could walk while you worked. Jenny Evans over at LifeHacker demonstrates how to build a treadmill work station quickly and on the cheap. You should be able to pick up the supplies to make this slick treadmill [...]
Small-Biz Owner Takes His Case To The Top
Last week, one entrepreneur had the opportunity to ask President Obama a question that no doubt has been on the mind of many others. The venue was a town hall meeting in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday, the day after the president’s State of the Union address, reports The New York Times. Thank you. My name [...]
My Free eBook: How I Create Traffic and Revenue from Twitter
My first free ebook of 2010 is live. It’s entitled How I Create Traffic and Revenue from Twitter. Download it now.
Small Business or Potential Business?
A reader wrote: Dear Dane: A proposal: let’s change the name from “Small Business” to “Potential Business”. Let’s redefine it as the seed of an enterprise that will become a business no matter its size. By business understanding a unit which produces profits by delivering a product. An enterprise could be or not a business, [...]
Looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for the mechanic in your life? Japanese online-retailer Rakuten is selling the V3 Car Mania set of chocolates from Frantz Kobe Sweets. Via Inventors Spot who ads: “Inside each Italian Red gift box you’ll find faithfully cast in high-quality chocolate a monkey wrench, 2 spanners, pliers, a nut [...]
What do you get when you take away the alcohol and violence associated with pirates? You have The Pleasant Pirate, a whole new take on beachwear. You won’t find any skulls or rum here, what you will find is a happy pirate that enjoys the beaches. There is no pillaging, just spending time with good [...]
White Goat: A Paper Shredder That Makes Toilet Paper
The White Goat is a device larger than two refrigerators, will shred you business documents and convert them into toilet paper. Let’s just hope it gets out all of the staples…
