Archive for May 2010
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 [...]
Serendipity struck in the winter of 2006 on a chairlift above the slopes in Snowbird, Utah, when a Red Bull energy drink exploded in Brian Levin’s backpack, soaking his lunch. Levin chowed down on soggy beef jerky that now came with a tangy kick. A new snack was born: caffeine-enhanced dried meat. According to Forbes, [...]
A Bill Of Privacy Rights For Social Networks?
According to dowloadsquad.com, with all the recent privacy issues that keep cropping up in the various social networks, it’s no surprise that people are looking to find a way to protect users in a more proactive, permanent way. This week, the Electronic Freedom Foundation got more deeply involved by posting a proposal for a Social [...]
North County Times: Hebert and his partners didn’t set out to clean up the ocean. A longtime angler, surfer and former tugboat captain, Hebert, 41, spent much of his life on the sea. While working at Pacific Tugboat Services with his friend Griffith, 62, he started tinkering with stretches of boom —- floating plastic tubing [...]
E-Commerce Spending Is Booming
AppScout reports that research company ComScore released its Q1 retail e-commerce sales estimates and found that online retail spending neared $34 billion for the quarter, up 10 percent versus a year ago. That strong acceleration represented the first time growth rates reached double-digits since the second quarter of 2008. The report found that growth was [...]
Inventor Thinks Outside The Square
The Southland Times: A Lochiel man’s ingenuity has helped to work out how to get a round bale to roll over in a square cage, solving the smallholder’s problem of feeding out baleage without a tractor. Fencer Kevin Cairns spent about a year designing a method for one person to load a 750kg bale of [...]
It’s clear that baseball isn’t just fun-and-games — it’s billion-dollar industry, after all — but the line gets mustardy when the job at hand is producing 10-foot tall foam hot dog costumes. At Olympus Flag & Banner, there is no shame in knowing how the sausage gets made, reports AOL Small Business. The Milwaukee-based company [...]
Tech: Another Healthcare Reform
When you think of health care reform you immediately think of government intervention in the healthcare market, right? But there is another “reform” underway that is more of a transformation: decentralized innovation fueled by low cost computers, digital sensors and the web. The NY Times reports: The trend promises to shift a lot of the [...]
Popular Science’s ‘Garage Invention’ Awards 2010: EverTune
‘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 [...]
Tao Xiangli a young man from Beijing with an unusual hobby and a keen interest in nautical salvage. has built his own submarine!
A Second Look At Shirts My Way
You might remember our interview with Shirts My Way from 8 months ago. If not then let me refresh your memory. Shirts My Way sells customized dress shirts. Through their website you are able to decide what type of material, cut of the neckline and a few other features that you would like, creating a [...]
Huggies Offers Money To Mompreneurs
AOL Small Business asks who better to help mompreneurs than a diaper company? Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies recently announced the launch of the Huggies MomInspired Grant Program, which will provide mothers with up to $15,000 total in seed capital and business resources to help turn their business ideas into reality. In order to be eligible, companies do [...]
The Best Industries for Starting a Business In 2010
You have survived the recession. Now what? If you have ever had the urge to start your own business, now may be a good time jump in, according to Inc. They’ve put together a list of the most promising industries for startups: To help identify the most promising industries for start-ups, a team of Inc. [...]
Are You a Small Business Super Hero?
BatchBlue Software, provider of the BatchBook social CRM (customer relationship manager) for small businesses and entrepreneurs, today began accepting nominations for its third annual Small Business Super Hero contest, which celebrates companies that are making great products, providing excellent service and are champions for their clients and their community. The competition, which is running simultaneously [...]
Google Reveals Adsense Revenue Split
Google has finally disclosed the percentage of revenue it keeps from publishers running its Adsense system which places ads alongside content on sites like this one. AdSense for content publishers, who make up the vast majority of our AdSense publishers, earn a 68% revenue share worldwide. This means we pay 68% of the revenue that [...]
Via the Twitter Blog, Twitter has just announced that they are banning all third party ads: Why are we prohibiting these kinds of ads? First, third party ad networks are not necessarily looking to preserve the unique user experience Twitter has created. They may optimize for either market share or short-term revenue at the expense [...]
Kevin Costner Helps To Fight Oil Spill
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According to Apple’s latest commercial, “iPad goes anywhere” — anywhere, that is, except for Yankee Stadium. Yahoo Sports confirmed with the stadium that the iPad falls under its “no laptops” security policy and patrons won’t be able to enter the ball field with one in their possession. Spacekatgal tried to bring her iPad in to [...]
Dating Without The Creepy Strangers
According to a story at CNNMoney, Katherine Woo was hanging out with two former PayPal coworkers at her San Francisco loft last spring, brainstorming business ideas on the sofa. Then one got distracted by a cute girl on Facebook. Who’s that?” Brian Phillips, 35, asked. Skye Lee, 38, peered over his shoulder and shook her [...]
Solarpreneur Pins Hopes On The Numbers
chron: Shan Hussain, 26, a recent graduate of the entrepreneurship program at University of Houston’s C.T. Bauer College of Business, created a solar-powered address panel now sold at hardware stores such as Bering’s and Buffalo Hardware Co. The goal, according to Hussain, is to branch out, create more solar products, then get them in major [...]
Popular Science’s ‘Garage Invention’ Awards 2010: Groasis Waterboxx
‘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 [...]
Stroll Around San Clemente Using A Board Game
The Orange County Register: Ever wanted to play a board game about San Clemente? Beth Yamamuro, a language teacher and mother, designed the game to test people’s knowledge of the city. Players spin a dial that lands on one of four categories: eat, shop, play or live. Players then draw a card related to the [...]
Finding Profit From Investing in Workers
Giving pay incentives to low-level workers and investing in their health and well-being can increase companies’ productivity and profits. Moreover, listening to the suggestions of low-level workers can go far to save companies money, reports The New York Times. Those are among the findings of a six-year international study led by Jody Heymann, who is [...]
The Entrepreneurial Itch To Be Green
StarTribune.com: As a Target executive, Joseph Mudd helped small companies pursue business opportunities with the giant retailer. That experience triggered an “entrepreneurial itch” that inspired Mudd to start his own company, which he launched in 2008 after 13 years at Target. “I knew once I left corporate America, I wanted to do something on my [...]
How To Lose $1.6 Million In Just Six Hours
According to AppScout.com, e-commerce site 6pm.com, a sister site to Zappos.com, accidentally priced all of its products at $49.95 on Friday, costing the company $1.6 million. “This morning, we made a big mistake in our pricing engine that capped everything on the site at $49.95. The mistake started at midnight and went until around 6:00am [...]
According to Trendhunter.com, the Bokashi Pet Cycle Fermenting System is one part gross and one part genius. This innovative creation from Lawrence Green turns your pet’s crap into nutrient-rich soil. Why throw away pet waste when you can use it to help your garden grow? The Bokashi Pet Cycle is simple and easy to use. [...]
Start Your Business And Keep Your Relationship
photo credit: batega Many new business owners often make the mistake of taking their new adventure far beyond what is necessary. They spend every waking moment on their new company, they are often gone for extended business trips, long working hours because they don’t want to trust anyone else to take care of things, and [...]
photo credit: Matt loves kicks As a new business person, it is vital that you realize how important your start up is to your company. The first impression and how strong you come out of the gate is very important to your businesses future. Below are a few tips on how you can start off [...]
photo credit: geishaboy500 OpenForum.com: You don’t always have to slash prices to stay competitive. There are many great ways you can add value to your goods and services at little or no cost. Learn how to keep your customers coming back while your competitors discount themselves out of business. Try extending your business hours so [...]
According to Inc.com, saying thank you for a job well done can pay huge dividends. A survey by the International Association of Administrative Professionals and OfficeTeam found that, while managers ranked promotions and cash bonuses as the two most effective ways of recognizing employee accomplishments, workers said they actually preferred an in-person thank-you or having [...]
By building win-loss analysis into your sales tracking process, you can learn important lessons about your sales force, your value proposition, and your key competitors, reports Inc.com. Consider putting together a questionnaire for clients and would-be clients to discover in which categories your company excells and in which it falls short. But don’t ask reps [...]
The Slow Death Of The Landline
One out of four households in the U.S. is now wireless-only. ReadWriteWeb has the latest statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of wireless-only households continues to move up slowly. In the first half of 2009, 22.7% of all households had cut their landline and today this number is closer [...]
It’s never been a better time to think about turning your hobby — that thing you’re passionate about doing — into a viable, money-generating business. In fact, according to a recent consumer survey conducted by the software-maker Intuit, about one in five people (17 percent) have actively worked on starting their own business in the [...]
Inventors Rush To Stop Oil Gush
BP’s busted pipe continues to gush crude into the Gulf of Mexico. The resulting slick is now poisoning shores. Brace yourself for goo-covered pelicans, belly-up alligators, wasteland that was marshland. According to Inventors Digest, inventors from across the country have inundated BP, the U.S. government and, yes, Inventors Digest, with ideas on how to stop [...]
How Many Calories Do You Burn While Tweeting?
Yep, there’s an app for that! TweetCalories, is a novelty web app that shows you approximately how many calories you’ve burned over the last 24 hours by tweeting, reports Mashable.com. The app works by assuming several factors. For example, it’s figured that the average word length in a tweet is about 6 characters. It assumes [...]
Bar Sound Bubble What a bubbleheaded idea. A college student in Scotland came up with a solution for chatty pub patrons who can’t hear their friends – the sound bubble. It’s a clear plastic helmet that covers everything but the ears and mouth from the neck up and eliminates background noise. Handerpants Fingerless Gloves If [...]
Celebrate National Small Biz Week
Next week the nation’s top entrepreneurs will come together in Washington, D.C. and virtually via the Internet for a three-day celebration of National Small Business Week, hosted by the SBA from May 22-25. With a theme of Driving America’s Economy, this year’s event is sponsored by some heavy hitters in the world of business innovation [...]
chron: A lot of little girls had Easy-Bake Ovens. But not many of them turned that initial interest in concocting tiny cakes into a full-fledged baking career. Adria Carter is one of those whose early adventures with batter eventually led to a grown-up desire to create cookies, brownies and cakes. “From the time I was [...]
Anyone who’s gotten to know a child knows how incredible they can be. Sure, they blurt out embarrassing observations in public, but that’s because they don’t filter their thoughts. And yes, they occasionally ruin wallpaper with crayons or finger paint, but that’s because their creativity knows no bounds. Woman’s Day found these examples of children [...]
Quest Turns Into MultiMillion Dollar Biz
Billings Gazette: Kim Ormsby was supposed to be a corporate executive or a veterinarian. What she was not supposed to be was the inventor of a new kind of cloth diaper that has catapulted the growing industry forward or the founder of a natural-infant-care company that has grown explosively each year since she started it [...]
