Archive for February 10th, 2010
QuikDine: Surfing the Web and Eating Out
QuikDine is a restaurant delivery business opportunity out of Missouri. Unlike most other restaurant delivery businesses in small towns, they offer you the ability to order your food from different restaurants via their website. As they explain it, they combine two very popular and widely practiced activities: surfing the internet and eating out! I recently [...]
Does your dog need to get out more? Could she use some more socialization? The Zoom Room is a dog agility training center and canine social club franchise that might be just what she’s looking for. Zoom Room specializes in dog agility training, including weave poles, A-frame, tunnels, jumps, dog agility walk, teeter totter, and [...]
To stand out, sometimes all it takes is a little trade. A cab driver in New York and a cab driver in London have traded cabs, the NY Times reports. The cabs stand out amongst their peers and didn’t really cost the drivers anything. Behind these cab-out-of-water foreign fleets is the relationship between two men [...]
Grow Your Biz By Teaching Others Your Biz
For years, copywriter Allison Nazarian watched potential clients pass her by. Again and again, she heard from business owners who needed copywriting services, but who didn’t have the money or inclination to hire someone to provide them, according to a story at Entrepreneur. Then, about three years ago, she figured out a way to get [...]
Stimulus Cash At Work: Carpet One Commercial Flooring
From fighting forest fires to laying carpet in day care centers, CNNMoney.com takes a look at what some small businesses that got stimulus-funded contracts are doing with taxpayers’ dollars. Carpet One Commercial Flooring in Cheyenne won a $75,000 stimulus contract to update the flooring in a day care/child development center at nearby F.E. Warren Air [...]
The DVDNow Kiosk is a DVD rental vending machine similar to RedBox. DVD rental machines are very popular with consumers, but they’re still relatively new. I live in California and have only seen a couple. According to DVDNow, their primary competitor Redbox is primarily targeting the large national or regional big box stores. There are [...]
Alco-Buddy Alcohol Breathalyzer Vending Machine
Alco-Buddy is wall mounted, vending machine-like alcohol breathalyzer. It is designed to be installed in bars and restaurants. The machine is about the size of a payphone. After the user inserts cash or swipes his credit card, the machine dispenses a straw from the bottom. The user them inserts one of the straw into a [...]
Quirky Makes it Real, Makes You Money
It was just an idea tossed around the dinner table a few months ago, reports ABCNews.com. Jenny Tyler, 32, was out with three iPhone-toting friends who wished that their phones had a camera flash like Tyler’s BlackBerry. So, throughout the evening, the group played armchair inventor and came up with the concept of an iPhone [...]
“Gadget Nation” author Steve Greenberg presents offbeat innovations.
How Local Economies Benefit From Big Sporting Events
Local economies are historically the biggest victims of recessions. When the market takes a turn for the worst, it is local shopkeepers, restaurant owners, hotels and other merchants who feel the squeeze most personally, reports Mint.com. Accordingly, most cities are eager for any economic stimulus they can get. Over the years, one of the great [...]
Inventor 911 At The Housewares Show
The International Home + Housewares Show is March 14-16 at McCormick Place in Chicago, with a special pre-event “Inventor 911 educational day as well as an Inventors Corner area, according to a story at Inventors Digest. Inventor 911 is an education and networking event for inventors and entrepreneurs. Featuring topics of special interest to those [...]
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Mom’s Salon Keeps Daughter’s Dream Alive
Just a few years ago Cheryl McMillan lost her daughter, Brittney Redd, to cancer. While her daughter was going through chemotherapy they had to struggle just to find the right style of hairpieces that would work the best. It was then that she made her mom promise that when she opened up a salon of [...]
