Archive for February 23rd, 2010
Excitement about the approach of the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan, due March 17, is inspiring ever more dramatic calls for greater high-speed Internet connectivity in the United States, reports arstechnica.com. This month, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski declared that the agency wants 260 million Americans hooked up to 100 Mbps broadband by 2020. Not [...]
Last Chance for My Free Twitter Ebook
Have you picked up a copy of my free ebook How I Create Traffic and Revenue from Twitter? If not, you should immediately go download a copy, because on March 2nd it won’t be free anymore. The price will be going up to seven dollars at noon on Tuesday, March 2nd. Here’s that link again: [...]
Mom Makes Sense Of Your Unorganized Mess
Look around your home office. What do you see? If you’re anything like Pamela Meyer than what you see is probably in need of a little organization, reports 9News.com. Then Meyer stumbled upon Angela Cody-Rouget, a professional organizer who runs a business called Major Mom. Cody-Rouget started the company in 2006, after serving 14 years [...]
Heck with a better mousetrap. Jason Lucash, 26, is busy inventing compact products that help people listen to music. The Danville Express News reports that Rock-It, developed by Lucash, is a gadget that allows music fans to use any household object as a speaker – it’s the “first ever portable vibration speaker system,” explains Lucash. [...]
Mailbox Forwarding: Manage Your Mail Online
Mailbox Forwarding is a service that allows you to have your paper mail available to you at any time from any where in the world. They provide you with a unique street address and box number that you can have all of your mail sent to. When a piece of mail arrives, their staff will [...]
Baby Planning Bizs Grow Despite Recession
It’s a niche still in its infancy. According to the National Baby Planner Association, about 60 businesses in the U.S. and abroad now identify themselves as baby planning companies, reports AOL Small Business. Within the last several years, the growth of baby planning seems to have followed the niche started by the explosion of the [...]
Freelancers: America’s New Workforce
Founder of the Freelancers Union Sara Horowitz explains why the self-employed are a bigger factor in today’s economy in this report from CNNMoney.
Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day
According to a story on Mashable, new stats released by Twitter reveal that users now send out more than 50 million tweets per day. That means every second, 600 tweets fly through Twitter’s network. As reported two weeks ago, Twitter saw more than 1.2 billion tweets in January, or around 39 million tweets per day. [...]
The British & International Franchise Exhibition
Are you a European looking for a franchise? A number of franchisors and franchising experts from Hungary, Norway and Spain to India, the USA and Mexico will be exhibiting at The British & International Franchise Exhibition in London on Friday 19th and Saturday the 20th of March 2010. As the only London exhibition endorsed by [...]
The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) will host its annual March Madness for the Mind showcase of student innovation in San Francisco on March 27, 2010 from 10:00 to 2 p.m. PST at the Exploratorium® in the Palace of Fine Arts. PitchEngine reports the event is an opportunity for the nation’s top Excellence [...]
Dealers Wanted for Beautiful Aquariums
Fish are beautiful, but conventional fish tanks are very ugly. Aquavista owner Scott Yen set out to build an aquarium that looked more like a painting. What he came up with was the Aquavista 500, a 6.6-gallon tank that is roughly 4 inches thick and hangs on a wall, secured by a steel bracket. “The [...]
How-To Make Money With How-To Products
If there is one thing that Manuel Rose has learned from his business, MMR Productions, it is that there is plenty of money to be made from how-to products. Of course, how-to isn’t all they know how to do. They can serve you whether you need one of your family videos converted to DVD or [...]
