Archive for March 17th, 2010
When a child is too sick to go to day care or school, working parents often have little choice but to stay home and miss work themselves. Not so for those who live in and around Kennewick, Washington, however, where a new company offers bed rest and supervised nursing care for kids with low-level but [...]
Long-distance relationships are difficult enough to maintain among adults, but when young kids are involved, the chances of achieving a meaningful conversation from afar tend to diminish. That’s where Readeo comes in, with a newly launched platform that lets families share bedtime stories through the web, reports trendspotter Springwise. The Chicago-based company’s patent-pending application integrates [...]
Best Money Making Ideas Are Always The Most Simple
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Design Swim Shorts, Earn Up To $1,000
From jeans to bicycles, fabrics to sleeping bags, we’ve seen a wide array of products consumers can design themselves. Lest swim shorts aficionados feel left out, however, there’s now a design-your-own site for those too—and it even rewards creators with cold, hard cash, according to a story at trendspotter Springwise. Aiming to do for swim [...]
According to a story in Forbes, after a few long nights at the bar in 2001, Jeffrey Goldblatt decided he was tired of overhearing trashy pickup lines and withering put-downs. He teetered home and set up Rejection Hotline–a phone number women could dish out to their pursuers, leading them to this voice mail: “Hello, the [...]
Could you make an entire business out of tassels? Tassel Depot has. They sell over $50,000 of tassels each month on their website! Chances are the tassel atop the graduation cap or adorning the program or the menu came from Tassel Depot, based in Deerfield Beach. The company, run by Roger Leavy and his wife, [...]
Almost Homemade Rocket Helicopter
The Swisscopter Dragonfly is a small helicopter with rocket engines on the ends of its rotors blades to make them spin. PopSci: The copter makes use of tiny hydrogen-peroxide-powered rocket motors on the tips of the blades, which replaces the traditional engine-powered rotor. Large fuel tanks surrounding the pilot allow the Dragonfly to travel at [...]
Is the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee too much of an imposition on your schedule? If so, then a new invention might interest you. Called Le Whif, the lipstick shaped product is designed to be inserted in the mouth and inhaled, delivering an instant 100 milligram caffeine hit, equivalent to a [...]
Need a new idea for a restaurant? How about World War II food? One restaurant in the UK is serving recreations of the (mostly horrible) food eating in Britain during WWII’s rationing period. BoingBoing has more.
New Biz: Smog Inspection Delivery
photo credit: 29856334@N00 There is one tiny upside to the onerous amounts of regulation that governments continue to generate: they occasionally allow smart entrepreneurs to create businesses that help people navigate through them. Here’s one such story: As Memphis city leaders try to find ways to lessen car inspection wait times like waiving emissions testing [...]
WAHM Group Provides ‘Purposeful Support’
Heather Flanagan knows the challenges that work-at-home moms face, says the Peninsula Daily News. She’s a career-certified business and life coach who works out of her 16th Street home office, often juggling the demands of her profession, a 21-month-old baby and a 9-year-old. So it was no surprise that Flanagan, a life coach for nine [...]
How to Start a Business You Can Sell
The following is a guest post by John Warrillow. Starting a new business? Follow these eight steps to build a business you can sell one day: 1. Identify a scalable product or service Scalable products meet three criteria: Teachable—you can train people or program technology to deliver them. Valuable—your customers want to buy them. Repeatable—you [...]
Most people want to be known as experts in their fields because they think that it will increase their visiblity and sales. According to the Wall Street Journal, establishing yourself as an expert serves another very important purpose: it causes you to become more knowledgeable about other aspects of your niche. In other words, it [...]
