Archive for March 29th, 2010
Affiliate Program: TextAlert4U
TextAlert4U is an SMS-based mobile advertising service that enables you to send unlimited advertising text messages to an unlimited number of subscribers – on a bulk broadcast basis – any time you want, as frequently as you like, with no per-message charges and no phone company fees ever. The owner of the company sent me [...]
Womans History Month Highlights The Impact Of Latina Entrepreneurs On US Business
The Hispanic population is one of the largest and fastest growing minority groups in the US, so it comes as no surprise that Latina entrepreneurs are making a strong impact on US business, says My Latino Voice. Accrediting women for the work they have done opens doors for other women to follow their lead. Lisa [...]
Signs Urge Onlookers To Keep Fingers Off Baby
After Kimberly Levine had her son she soon learned just how much strangers like to look at and hold babies, says The Palm Beach Post. As sweet as their intent was, she also didn’t want just anyone walking over and touching her child. Inspired by the “baby on board” signs that people hang in their [...]
United Shipping Solutions is a third party provider of transportation services. They are one of very few companies with a contract to resell both small parcel and freight services. They are currently seeking people to become Independent Sales Agents to run their own transportation business in major markets throughout the United States. This is a [...]
Niche Biz: Dating for Gardeners
Cultivateadate.com (Cultivate a Date) is a dating website for people with a shared interest in gardening, horticulture, botany, and the environment. From the site: The newest and freshest way of finding people with a common interest in the world of flowers – in its widest connotation, anything botanical whether it be as basic as having [...]
WebSafety: Keeping Kids Safe Online
The following is a guest post by Gail Wallin. WebSafety launched in 2009 after several years of product development. Developed by a group of concerned parents, law enforcement officials and today’s top software engineers, the result is a company with advanced technology that empowers parents to protect their children in the cyber and cellular worlds. [...]
You Can’t Keep A Vintage Toy Entrepreneur Down
Carin Shaw refuses to let high rents or a tough economy stop her from launching her vintage toy shop, says Mountain Xpress. Vintage Childhood is devoted to the toys, books, quilts, decor, and dollhouses and miniatures that have made generations of children (and collectors) happy. She decided to rent a small permanent building at the [...]
According to a story in BusinessWeek, in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Shaun White’s incredible snowboarding performance stands out. Shaun had already won the Gold Medal before he did his final jump. Even his coach told him: “Shaun, we have achieved what we came here for. You can take it easy now.” What did White [...]
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: Franchises Café Jubilee Cool Cycles Ice Cream Lenard’s NakedPizza Pal4Pets Two Small Men With Big Hearts Moving Co. Xpresso Delight Dealerships ClearView Invisible [...]
photo credit: caveman_92223 BusinessInsider: If you want to start a company and are working on new ideas, here’s how I’ve always done it and how I recommend you do it. Be the opposite of secretive. Create a Google spreadsheet where you list every idea you can think, even really half-baked ones. Include ideas you hear [...]
This looks interesting. Got a great idea? Let your Fans decide! Post your idea on our Wall, and a video, too if you’ve got a lot to say. Make a difference in the lives of those trying to make a difference by “Liking Up” the venture you feel are worthy. You just might make the [...]
Video: Best Homemade Used Car Sales Video
Is this video the best homemade used car sales video ever? via Autoblog.
Alyssa Ettinger at DIY Life discovered teacher and artist Liz Dickey, whose shop features curious clocks crafted from parts of old bicycle gears and reclaimed textiles. They’re so innovative we just had to learn more. She made her first clock quite by accident: her boyfriend had lots of bike gears hanging around and she was [...]
The Rise of Saturday Landlords
The following is a guest post by Brian Davis. Anyone who’s tried to sell a piece of real estate in the last three years has likely had a lengthy, dispiriting selling process, filled with compromises and sacrifices. Prices dropped, mortgage lenders tightened up, would-be buyers lost their jobs, others postponed buying to shore up their [...]
The billboard systems provide a new unique outdoor advertising format to reach audiences in any coastal location or waterfront event. “It’s the only product of its size and kind that works. It’s never missed since you have no visual competition out on the water” says Peter Fleck of Sliders Inc. Mitsubishi, McDonald’s, Disney, and Red [...]
Toys That Inspired Scientific Breakthroughs
Scientific American reports advances in science and technology can launch from unassuming springboards. In 1609 Galileo tweaked a toylike spyglass, pointed it at the moon and Jupiter (not the neighbors), and astronomy took a quantum leap. About 150 years later, Benjamin Franklin reportedly used a kite to experiment with one of the earliest-known electrical capacitors. [...]
Get Better Visibility On Google
USA TODAY’s Jefferson Graham interviews Google engineer Matt Cutts on how to get your site to the top of Google with 5 basic, common sense SEO tips.
Will you buy an iPad when they become available this week? Yes No Waiting for reviews and comments from users View Results Photo by Apple.
In this excerpt from the book Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession, Dave Jamieson explains how baseball cards first became seen as promising investments, setting the stage for a decade of speculation and overproduction: Around the mid-1970s, a small cabal of serious baseball card collectors grew wise to the fact that their [...]
Seven Tips for Those Considering a Consulting Franchise
photo credit: lirneasia The following is a guest post by Miles Lee. As more and more corporate executives lose their jobs or go into early retirement, business-to-business consulting franchises are becoming more and more popular. All it takes is a search for business coaching, cost containment, factoring, internet services, financial services, to name a few, [...]
