Archive for June 11th, 2010
Free Must Read Report for Entrepreneurs
Copyblogger Brian Clark had an amazing conversation with entrepreneur Jason Fried of 37 Signals and author Steven Pressfield and put it together into a free report. Problogger Darren Rowse called the report a “must read.” That’s good enough for me. The report is 31 pages and is called How to Have a Great Life and [...]
Buying and Selling Websites on Flippa
There are many sites to buy and sell existing websites online. My current favorite is Flippa.com. Flippa is an online auction house (like eBay) for the individual sale of web sites and domain names. Buying a prebuilt website can be a good way to supplement your online earnings, but before you buy a website, keep [...]
The deadline for Entrepreneur Magazine’s, Entrepreneur of 2010 Award is fast approaching. If you meet the qualifications below, you’d better hurry, because you only have until June 15, 2010 to enter. Entrants must have 2009 gross sales of at least $350,000, own at least 51% of the business and meet the minimum and/or maximum number [...]
Foreign knock-offs of American toys often wind up inadvertently parodying them. The low production value of a zombie-esque action figure and hilarious typos resulting from poor translation can almost make a toy more entertaining than the real version. Here are a few toys Urlesque.com collected. ‘Spader-Man’ instead of Spider-Man. I wonder if actor James Spader [...]
Instant Store, Just Add Customers
Vendr seamlessly adds storefront capabilities to any website or blog with just a few lines of code. It does that by adding a “Store” button; when clicked, it dims the background page and overlays a brightly lit store that provides customers with an engaging and fluid shopping experience. Both physical and digital goods can be [...]
Are You Afraid of Social Media?
The following is a guest post from author and marketing specialist Michael Carney. Social Media is the hottest topic in marketing circles right now and many businesses are feeling pressured to get involved with social outlets such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. Small wonder — eMarketer is reporting that social media has reached the tipping [...]
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 Alphagraphics a franchise Anytime Fitness a franchise Arbonne International a business opportunity Arby’s a franchise Baguette Express a franchise Bakers [...]
Three words can best describe Angela and Karen Samuels and the business they run together. Those words are Sexy Bolder You, reports thestar.com. The words are displayed prominently in Voluptuous, a chain of stores in Toronto that sells trendy fashions in sizes 12 to 20 and is owned and operated by the sisters. But what [...]
Accidental Ad Campaign Weatherproof found a vein of gold in the decision of Obama to use a jacket of the firm during its recent trip to China this past November and placed the ad in a highly visible place. Barack Obama is seen dressed in a black jacket with hands in the pocket, smiling with [...]
New Bizop Classified Ads This Week
New listing this week on the Business Opportunities Weblog Classifieds. Dvdnow Kiosks – Dvd Rental Business Opportunity Always Wanted To Be On The Ground Floor? An Complete Edu-tainment Business For Kids – Under $100! You Earn $1000 Commission Per Sale!! Direct Sales Professionals Increase Your Referrals With My Product $1000 Commission Per Sale New Company [...]
What You Can Learn from Small Businesses Success Stories
There is not bulletproof recipe to launching a successful business. Luck, flair, persistence and drive are some of the many factors that will make – or break a start-up. But while there is no blueprint on entrepreneurship, history has taught us that you cannot make it without the 6 factors listed below These rules are [...]
Teen Founds Profitable Ad Network
Fifteen year-old Christian Owens, founder of online advertising network Branchr, was recently named Enterprising Young Brit 2010. The Daily Mail gives the annual award to teen tycoons with startups in the United Kingdom, reports VentureBeat. Owens founded the startup, which counts MySpace as a publisher — to give you a sense of the prestige — [...]
The Florida-Times Union: When Susan Miller risked everything to help her son launch Bold City Brewery from the ground up in Jacksonville, she admits she didn’t even know if his beer was any good. She took a big risk when she quit her job and helped finance her son’s dream here. It wasn’t out of [...]
VentureBeat reports tha beverage giant Pepsi announced a new experiment around barcodes in collaboration with a startup called Stickybits. Using a barcode-reader application on a smartphone, users can scan barcodes on Pepsi products like soda cans or bottles and access videos and links hidden in the code. Users can also upload their own videos, photos [...]
Toolbox Helps Small Biz Owners Boost Online Presence
The Daily News states that logging on to Make My Cake can be very dangerous. One look at the photos on this Web site — cupcakes dripping in buttercream frosting and fluffy cheesecake topped with cream cheese frosting swirls — could make you drop everything and rush off to one of two Make My Cake [...]
New York Times Bans The Word “Tweet”
The Slate is reporting that the Gray Lady will no longer tweet. That’s according to the New York Times’ standards editor Phil Corbett, who is pleading with writers to avoid using the word in their copy whenever possible, invoking the paper’s disdain for “colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon.” There are tweet partisans: The Associated Press gave [...]
