Archive for February 26th, 2010
New in the Directory This Week
One of the often overlooked sections of this website is our directory. Over 2300 different bizops, franchises, dealerships and online opportunities are listed there. Here are the new companies from this week: Business Opportunities Nichols Bronze Supply Franchises 1-800 Pack-Rat 1-800 Water Damage 1-800-DryCarpet 1800Flowers.com 1st Propane Applebee’s Bagel Factory Bubba Gump Shrimp Co Cardsmart [...]
Dust Cover For Dog Patent 3,150,641 Pneumatic Shoe Lacing Apparatus Patent No. 5,205,055 Apparatus For Facilitating Birth Of Child By Centrifugal Force Patent No. 3,216,423 Cheese-Filter Cigarette Patent 3,234,948 Photos by USPTO.
Mother & Son Keep Their Business Cooking
We’ve bought products from mom and pop stores. We’ve even purchased services from father and son businesses. But, The Augusta Chronicle wonders, when was the last time you ate at at a mother and son restaurant? Jackie McCalla and her son Clinton McCalla Jr. hope the number will be many as word of mouth spreads [...]
Business Advice From Van Halen
What if you could identify the early-warning signs of a business problem? What if, in fact, the red flags are there right now, waving at you unheeded from information you’ve already collected asks Fast Company. Your source of data doesn’t need to be high tech. In fact, it doesn’t even need to be numerical. Consider [...]
Florist Confirms Each Bouquet With e-Photo
Trendspotter Springwise reports that one of the keys to e-commerce success is to ensure that customers know exactly what they’re ordering. That has been an elusive goal for florists, thanks to fluctuations in flowers’ appearance and availability; the result is that customers must typically take it on faith that they’ll get something similar to what [...]
Trends via TrendHunter.com.
Those of you who still use the penny as currency may soon notice America’s 1-cent coin has gotten a facelift, according to a story at MSN Money. The U.S. Mint has changed the design for the reverse — or “tails” — side of the 2010 Lincoln Cent, which entered circulation on Feb. 11 (everywhere but [...]
Before I moved to the mountains, I never thought much about propane. Sure, I occasionally had to go to Walmart to swap my barbecue’s empty propane tank for full one, but otherwise all of the gas we used in our home was natural gas and was delivered via pipes under the streets. Now that I [...]
Lizard Inspires New Adhesive Tape
Keep your eye on the shelves of your local hardware store, where you may be able to find new tape from an unlikely source: the gecko, reports The New York Times. Geckos have millions of microscopic hairs on their toes, each with hundreds of tips that adhere to surfaces, with no residue left behind,” said [...]
