Archive for May 26th, 2010
Traditionally, companies like Google Adsense pay publishers more than thirty days after the’ve run their advertisements on the publisher’s site. Other ad networks can sometimes have as much as a 100 day lag between the time that they say you’ve earned money and when they send it. This delay can really hamper the growth of [...]
A few interesting links I’ve posted to Twitter today: A Rebellious Teenagers Guide To Starting A Lawn Care Business 13 Bad Excuses For Not Starting Your Business Quirky Crowdsources Your Product Ideas into Reality Start A Handyman Business Reuters: For some, oil spill a business opportunity FedEx restores flight hours to pre-recession levels Ouch: The [...]
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 companies we’ve posted about this week: 7-eleven a franchise Anytime Fitness a franchise Arbonne International a business opportunity Baguette Express a franchise Bakers Delight a franchise Baskin Robbins a [...]
Library Of Congress’ Hidden Twitter Room
The Library of Congress recently made headlines by announcing an unusual acquisition: every public tweet ever sent on Twitter. Cleverly, it made the announcement by Twitter — and the interest brought the library’s servers to a standstill, reports WalletPop. In the humming computer stacks in the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library, preserving digital [...]
According to trendspotter Springwise, catering to consumers who don’t want the hassle of buying ingredients and following recipes, Cocktailbox is a London-based venture that offers ready-mixed cocktails freshly made by a professional bartender,and home delivered in fridge-friendly boxes. Launched in October, CocktailBox takes online orders for four popular cocktails—margarita, mojito, cosmo and strawberry daiquiri—and dispatches [...]
Making DVDs Out Of Old VHS Or Slides
PatriotLedger.com: Janet Gilmore launched VideoKin in January 2009. Her firm, which she runs out of her house, takes old VHS tapes, slides, and photos and uploads them into DVD format and video montages. Gilmore graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a major in film and later worked at Boston-based Pieces Production [...]
New Bizop Classified Ads This Week
New listing this week on the Business Opportunities Weblog Classifieds. This Guy Helped Me Build A Team Of 2, 000 People In 4 Months Free Training To Market Online 1 0 0 % P R O F I T – I N S T A N T P A Y There Are 3 Easy Ways [...]
It seems that there’s a unique restaurant business idea inside of every geopolitical crisis. Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. The food is served out of a take-out style storefront, which will rotate identities every 4 months to highlight another country. [...]
Popular Science’s ‘Garage Invention’ Awards 2010: OneBreath
‘Garage inventors’ is a term used to describe individuals or groups of inventors that create independently. They are not on a salary or salary/incentive basis, paid by their companies to invent; they work alone, on their own or in small groups, generally in someone’s garage or other part of the home. Popular Science recognizes the [...]
Online Athens: As a wife and mother of four young girls ages 11 to 2, Oconee County native Chastity Shepherd considers herself an expert in children’s clothing. Shepherd’s experience in buying kid’s apparel for her own brood and a desire to embark on an entrepreneurial career prompted her to open Butterfly Kisses, a retail consignment [...]
Bloomberg Announces Funding, Calls For Startups In NYC
“Small businesses are the future of America,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in NYC. ReadWriteWeb reports that Bloomberg described New York City as “the place to come” for entrepreneurs and startups, announcing that the city-sponsored NYC Entrepreneurial Fund had made its first investment in local startup MyCityWay. Bloomberg [...]
Summit To Focus On Young Entrepreneurs
In four weeks the G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit will be bringing together various entrepreneurs, academics, government officials and youth entrepreneurship organizations to help promote global youth entrepreneurship. The Summit, taking place in Toronto, Canada June 20-22, 2010, will assemble delegations from the G20 nations to identify and examine the issues impeding young entrepreneurs around the [...]
Google’s Free Pac-Man Logo Costs Bizs $120+ Million
Last week, the Google logo was turned into an actual game of Pac-Man and we all took breaks to play. The Rescue Time Blog took a hard look at Pac-Man D-Day and compared it with previous Fridays (before and after Google’s recent redesign) and found some noticeable differences. We took a random subset of our [...]
A Westwego, Louisiana, man says he has the answer to capping that pipe gushing beneath the gulf, reports NewOrleans.com. Warren Gilbert is a hydraulic specialist. He developed this device he calls a crimper. Using hydraulics he says his machine can be retro fitted to work under water. The key is getting the crimper around the [...]
photo credit: Editor B During the past couple of years as we have tried to fight our way through the recession, we have all been aware of the unemployment sky rocketing. What some of you may not know is just how many are actually unemployed long-term as well as the groups that it is most [...]
What Your Lawyer Isn’t Telling You
photo credit: Kamal H. We all have heard the jokes about lawyers over the years but what we haven’t heard is how our business lawyers withhold information from us, which is ironic given the fact they stand by that saying “no withholding information”. Look below for some interesting and shocking details that your lawyer is [...]
Part Time Jobs Don’t Have The Same Signal
photo credit: Philip Rood Photography It used to be that when you accepted a part time position, you would move into a full time position when one became available. Normally companies hired in part time positions only on a sort of trial basis to make sure you were a good fit for their company, and [...]
