Archive for April 2010
Each woman wanted to find a way to express their creativity while placing success in their own hands, says the Redding Record Searchlight. Here they share why they launched their own businesses and the lessons they have learned along the way. Kimberly Woods was 28 when she opened The Kimberly Nicole Boutique in Redding in [...]
It’s soccer’s newest utility player: A ball called the sOccket generates and stores energy as players kick it, then provides energy at home. reports Readers Digest. Fifteen minutes on the field captures enough energy to power a small light for three hours and may help people in developing nations replace kerosene, a leading cause of [...]
It all started with a mom and her son. A fear of the dark and of nightmares had left Debbie Glickman’s son a little uncomfortable as he was transitioning from his crib to a big bed. Aware of the calming properties that lavender holds, Debbie went looking for a spray that she could use on [...]
Why Do Your Competitors Have More Business Then You?
photo credit: luc legay Often times we see that our competitors are lapping in the luxury of big business while we maintain just enough to keep us afloat. We then begin questioning this fact, why do they have more business then we do? I recently came across an article located on Retaildoc.com that covers the main [...]
What To Consider When Choosing Your Domain Name
photo credit: HH-Michael OkinaDojo.com: Your domain name is an important part of every online business as it helps to establish your online presence and gives you a place in which to direct potential customers. Having your own domain name also lends instant credibility and shows that you are a serious business owner, rather than someone [...]
The Value Of Social Media Ads?
Measuring the value of social media ads. Nielsen and Facebook recently formed a partnership to learn more about consumer habits and reactions to ads on social media platforms. That partnership has just spawned its first report, which draws on surveys of 800,000 Facebook users and over 125 different ad campaigns according to TechCrunch. Intent for [...]
Young App-rentice: Jonah Grant
Fast Company takes a look at four App developers with major ideas. All age 16 or younger, they’re part of a generation raised with multi-touch and social media, and they’re cranking out profitable ideas for new devices and platforms as fast as manufacturers let them. Today: Jonah Grant: The Ideas Man, 14, Chicago, IL When [...]
When was the last time you laid out in a hammock to relax? What about your dog or cat? Sometimes our pets just want to ‘hang around’ as much as we do. An entrepreneur has come up with a new small animal hammock that can comfort your pets while they rest in their cage, reports [...]
Use Your Local Flea Market As Biz Incubator
When your hobby – be it block-printing stationary, crafting goat-milk soaps, or designing up-cycled lighting fixtures – shows enough promise to justify renting a stall, selling at a local flea market could be worth a shot, says Inc.com. Most street fairs and markets have a very low barrier to entry: You’ll need transit, a table, [...]
After an accident took the life of her husband, Jennifer Drake didn’t back down. After making a conscious decision to stay in the town they had lived together in she has since gone on to create a business in his memory, reports the Times-Gazette.com. To cope with the grief and to memorialize her husband of [...]
Cool Invention: Misa Digital Guitar
A 26-year-old Australian designer has invented a brand-new way to be a rock star, reports Readers Digest. The Misa Digital Guitar’s fret board looks like a traditional six-string’s-but with no strings attached. There’s a touch pad where the sound hole normally is, and instead of plucking or strumming strings, you tap, drag, or brush the [...]
One entrepreneur hopes that Canadians are ready for a new way to bond with their dogs — using a story book, reports The Gazette. Jenan Mujkic, director of marketing and development at Ideas Inc., will be promoting his new book on CBC’s Dragon’s Den, a TV program that gives inventors an opportunity to pitch their [...]
Say it ain’t so. Drivers in the United Kingdom had better stay under the speed limit, because the traffic authorities are watching… from outer spaaaaaace. According to The Telegraph, an American company called PIPS Technology has developed a system that uses two cameras on the ground and one satellite in orbit to catch speeders. The [...]
If these California parents have their way, paying for a babysitter may soon be a thing of the past. As the Contra Costa Times explains, the rise of babysitting co-ops could mean your kid with the entrepreneurial streak needs to consider another after-school business. With three children younger than 6, date night could’ve easily run [...]
Everyday Edisons Executive Producter Louis Foreman, Patent Attorney Michael Neustel, Successful Inventor Linda Pollock, Patent illustrator Jack Smith, Patent Agent Don Kelley, UIA President Warren Tuttle and many other industry experts will be on hand to give valuable tips and advice to help you get your ideas to market. You don’t want to miss the [...]
TimeSheet Automatically Tracks Your Time
If you track how you spend your time, sometimes the tracking is more tedious than the doing. Lifehacker reports the free app TimeSheet automatically logs your tasks based on user-defined rules, so you can spend more time working and less time managing. TimeSheet can be useful for just about anyone looking to see specifics on [...]
More than 2,500 attendees are expected at Response Expo, the Inventors Pavilion, May 11-13, in San Diego, California. This show gives exhibitors the unique opportunity to get in front of the target audience needed to manufacture, license and market their product. Learn More Here. Photo by Response Expo.
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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 Brown Bag Party Chews-4-Health EZ Spices RedHotVend Time Plus Payroll Wish You Were Here Franchises 911Restoration Batteries Plus Benetrends Dogs Love [...]
Mistakes In Your Copy To Stay Away From
photo credit: Unhindered by Talent Copy Blogger: Content is king, but if the king looks like a toad, no one will know he’s royalty. On the one hand, your blog theme might be drop-dead gorgeous. But if your writing isn’t compelling, readers won’t stick around to read it. The number one mistake that people make [...]
Hotel Features For Business People
photo credit: kevindooley When in business it is sometimes required that you travel to strange cities. As if this wasn’t a pain to begin with being away from home and familiar ground, imagine being stuck in a horrible hotel room that makes you even more uncomfortable! I have put together some features that you [...]
How To Sell In A Buyers Market
photo credit: karlfrankowski Today has proven to be most definitely a buyers market as the economy is still quite rocky to most of us. Buyers have more power than sellers as they are only buying products that are absolutely needed by them and their family, rather than going out and impulse shopping or shopping their [...]
Use Dry-Erase Marker For Reminders
Task lists are great, but sometimes you want a reminder that’s right in front of your face to be absolutely certain you don’t forget something on the way to the office. Use a dry erase marker to leave yourself a mirror-note. Lifehacker reader ayellen shared a great, if unconventional, use for dry-erase markers: I write [...]
Northern Cheapskate is reporting that HP.com has added some new courses to its ever-growing collection of free online education. These free classes are a great way to learn a new skill or pick up a few new tips and tricks. The courses are self-paced and open for 1-2 months at a time. While enrolled in [...]
Unique products to amuse and inspire. Carstache. Make your car look like Magnum PI. Shark Fin Ice Cubes. Best effect with Bloody Marys. Fruit Jackets. Tuxedos coming soon. Pet High Chair. Have a kid already! Photos by carstache/buzzfeed/holykaw.
According to a story at Dayton Daily News, lots of people know that libraries are great places to get free books, movies and more but fewer are aware that libraries provide needed support for businesspeople. From free Wi-Fi access for those professionals who are constantly on the road, to business related workshops for entrepreneurs thinking [...]
Got A New Invention? We’ll Publicize It!
Sometimes inventions just need a little push, a little publicity to get them noticed by the public or investors. That’s why last year Inventors Digest launched Under the Radar, a section in the print version that features new and nascent inventions that have yet to take hold in the market. Precious few publications offer inventors [...]
Branson’s Call To Green Entrepreneurs
British billionaire Richard Branson marked the “official” launch of his latest green initiative, the Carbon War Room, speaking to hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors and students about the importance of businesses going green, reports Forbes. During a three-day conference, “Creating Climate Wealth,” at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, Branson and six other founders of the [...]
Sometimes it is simply amazing what someone can come up with from the comfort of their own garage, reports Public Radio International. In garages, basements, a Quonset hut and even NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, home inventors are creating amazing things in the 21st century. “I think some of the advantages that amateur inventors have over [...]
Who says technology is just for the young? The Oregonian says a video of 99-year-old Virginia Campbell receiving her first computer – an iPad – has gone viral on YouTube. The woman loves books, but glaucoma makes it difficult for her to read. You can enlarge the print, and it has a much brighter screen [...]
While all of the fighting and action is happening inside the AFC cage, Sarah Johnston is keeping a close eye from the outside reports the Anchorage Daily News. Johnston, a 27-year-old single mother and former mortgage broker from Wasilla, took over the Alaska Fighting Championship three years ago. As a woman, she’s an unlikely cage-fighting [...]
Benjamin Franklin still appears on the $100 bill, but he’s got a few new bells and whistles alongside him, reports The Washington Post. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke unveiled the redesigned C-note, which includes new security features designed to weed out counterfeit versions of the most copied piece [...]
Dancing To The Tune Of A Franchise
A world-class dancer, dance instructor, and entrepreneur from southern Florida, Moshe Rasier has recently turned his business, Aventura Dance, into a franchise opportunity. Success is nothing new for the 28 year old entrepreneur; Rasier has won over the tough critics in success as a business man, dancer, choreographer, and producer, and worked with Cirque du [...]
Keeping Earth Day Revolving Year-Round
Today is Earth Day and millions of people across the country will be participating in environmentally conscious activities. By tomorrow, many of those same people will likely be tossing cigarette butts or fast food wrappers out the window of their car. According to a story on Tampa Bay Online, Scott Harper, the county’s solid waste [...]
What can you do for Earth Day? Anything that is meaningful to you and planet Earth, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. You can start with simple changes in the home, in the garden and on the road. Take a look at these money savers for greening your home. 1. Fix faucet leaks 2. Seal drafty [...]
Cash For Appliances Offer Earth Day Savings
More than four months after states first started rolling out their appliance rebate programs, Earth Day is seeing those efforts reach their peak, reports KTVU.com. Since December, when Delaware became the first state to launch its Cash for Appliances effort, 35 states have followed suit. Of those, nine have already exhausted their funding, including five [...]
Celebrate Earth Day With Green iPhone Apps
Apple’s iPhone would have seemed a super-futuristic gadget in 1970, when fiber optics were a new invention and Americans celebrated the first Earth Day. USA TODAY offers up 5 iPhone apps to help you go green: FindGreen: Search more than 56,000 green and sustainable businesses to make everyday choices that will reduce your environmental impact. [...]
Teen Mows Down The Competition
Any entrepreneur would love to have their customers hunt them down instead of having to go out and find them. While that isn’t a realistic approach for most, it seems to be working quite well for Corey Hall reports the Orange County Local News Network. Hall, who lives in Brea, recalls being about 5 years [...]
Recycle Your Old Cell Phone This Earth Day
Tech News Daily suggests that instead of planting a tree for Earth Day this year, consider recycling that old cell phone taking up space in your desk drawer. All of the major U.S. cell phone carriers have recycling programs, and your discarded phone could end up being of use to someone else. The Environmental Protection [...]
3D Printer Makes Buildings Out Of Sand
If you’re still trying to figure out the art of sand castle building, stop right now and take a look at what as you beat. While 3D printing isn’t exactly new, I think it is safe to say that buildings just simply weren’t possible before now. However a printer called the D-Shape, invented by Enrico [...]
What Have We Done In 40 Years?
Before 1970, when the first Earth Day occurred, no federal laws barred companies from releasing toxic chemicals into the air and water. Today, that seems almost difficult to imagine. As people celebrate Earth Day’s 40 anniversary today, USA TODAY takes a look backward and shows how much environmental progress has occurred. In the animated video, [...]
Business Has Kids Cheering ‘Hooray’
How do you get young preschoolers to learn? By making each lesson something fun. Hooray For Books is a franchise that makes learning fun. Using fun themes, stories and hands on projects, kids are able to use their imaginations to the max. However the founder, Mary Murphy, didn’t start out with a business in mind. [...]
Google Wants To Be All Up In Your Biz
Local Business Center, the service that local businesses use to hand a virtual shingle from within Google Maps, is being renamed Google Places, reports Fast Company. Along with the name change, Google’s added a heap of new features to help firms connect with potential customers. As well as simplifying the way businesses connect with Place [...]
Here’s our iPad story for the day. Paul Stamatiou caught this photo in Atlanta. Could this be the start of an iPad line of fashion wear? Somebody call Flavor Flav! Photo by Paul Stamatiou.
Cloud Computing Can Help Small Biz
Cloud computing is one of those classic disruptions to a business that over time becomes part of the fabric for a how a company operates, writes Alex Williams over at ReadWriteWeb. You can either get into it now and be a leader or wait and join with the rest of the masses. That’s not to [...]
All new moms have the urge to stay home with their child right before they have to go back to work. Then there are some women like Sidney Miller that find a way to do it and still make a living too, reports 12 News. After she got married, and got a fabulous mixer, she [...]
Pour water on a typical greeting card and you’ve got a soggy mess. Do the same to a Postcarden, and you’ve got the beginnings of a miniature garden. According to DailyGrommet.com, Postcarden creator Aimee Furnival had an idea to re-think the greeting card and in a way that is stylish, playful, completely unexpected and yes, [...]
Advice From An ‘Accidental Entrepreneur’
Some things in life simply happen by accident. Call it fate or call it good luck but Brent Bahler simply calls himself an accidental entrepreneur, reports the Marshall Democrat-News. He defined an entrepreneur as someone “who has possession of a new enterprise, a venture, an idea; someone who assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks [...]
Fast Company reports about an invention that might eliminate almost all of the wasted space in a cardboard box. How brilliant is this? Designer Patrick Sung’s Universal Packaging System is meant to precisely fit anything that needs shipping. The individual cardboard sheets are scored with a triangle pattern that can either be fitted to an [...]
Sunshine is a full service grounds care franchise opportunity. No matter where you are, no matter the season, there is always something that needs done. From lawn care to snow removal, this is the perfect business opportunity for any outdoorsy men or women that like to get their hands dirty. The actually story behind the [...]
