Archive for June 2010
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 Actioncoach a franchise Alphagraphics a franchise Anytime Fitness a franchise Arbonne International a business opportunity Arby’s a franchise Avon a [...]
New Bizop Classified Ads This Week
New listing this week on the Business Opportunities Weblog Classifieds. File Bankruptcy For Free Without An Attorney Completely Free Online Business – No Financial Investment Ever! Earn Cash From Your Website Or Online Business – Completely Free If You Have A Pickup Truck Or Van, I Can Show You How To Make $40 To $100 [...]
Mobile Billboards Changing Advertising Game
There’s been a tectonic shift in advertising in which competitive advantage requires innovation, and AdHitch mobile billboards are it. Most ad mediums are nothing more than megaphones. They are powerless without a voice, or more importantly, amplified ideas that engage an audience. But now you can take your message wherever your audience might be, with [...]
According to Trendhunter.com, North Tyneside, England, is taking a novel approach to economic depression by putting up fake business fronts. North Tyneside has been devastated by the down economy, losing 140 businesses, which has led the town to take some drastic measures. And by drastic, I mean genius! The removable fake business fronts are used [...]
Entrepreneur Tackles The Gulf With Oil Absorbing Foam
Cape Cod Times: Scott Smith knew he was not crazy. He was quite certain that a product developed by his Hyannis-based company — an oil-absorbent foam called Opflex — could be useful in cleaning up some of the oil that has been oozing into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month. But it [...]
Giant-Screen Social Games For Crowds
There’s no doubt sports matches and other large events offer advertisers the potential of an engaged, enthusiastic crowd of consumers; how to make the most of that potential, however, is much less clear. Trendspotter Springwise reports that Finnish Uplause has developed a series of social games for use on giant stadium screens that aim to [...]
According to CNNMoney, BP’s oil spill is an expensive disaster for the Gulf Coast, but it’s turning into a gold mine for entrepreneurs. Hundreds of parody products are now on sale across the Web, taking aim at BP’s sunburst logo and “responsibility” pledges. There’s tote bags and buttons on Etsy, coffee mugs on Zazzle, and [...]
TwinCities.com: When Bill Eggert takes his new invention out for a spin, it looks like an elliptical exercise machine that escaped from the health club and is rolling down the streets of St. Paul. That’s what the 48-year-old inventor has essentially created: an elliptical trainer with wheels. The St. Paul resident has had jobs ranging [...]
There are plenty of jobs you can take over the summer, but some of them cater to a student’s schedule better than others. To help, Money College created a list of ideas for summer jobs. These are suggestions to get you started in your search. 1. Landscaping. Get your hands dirty this summer, along with [...]
iNotePad – The Cheaper iPad Alternative
Red Ferret reports that Shed Simove has created the iNotePad, a sixty page paper notepad with an acetate front sheet and hardboard back. The iNotePad features three styles of page: vertical lined, horizontal lined and blank. This means the iNotePad can be used in all orientations…and is widely compatible with all kinds of hardware, including: [...]
The Bike Before The Big Kid Bike
One of the hardest things to teach a young child is balance. You can place them on the bike and teach them how to peddle but most kids need time before they are able to remove those training wheels that keep them from toppling over. However, the Strider PREbike hopes to eliminate that problem by [...]
Should You Be Increasing Your Prices?
photo credit: geishaboy500 There is lots of speculation lately in businesses regarding correct pricing. Since the economy seems to be slowing getting better and more and more of your loyal customers are returning closer and closer to their older shopping habits, many of us are wondering if it’s time to re-consider our pricing structures. Below [...]
photo credit: kevindooley OpenForum.com: When comedian Steve Martin declared, “Let’s get small,” he could have been coining today’s consumer mantra. Across the nation, shoppers are shifting their purchases to small and local businesses. One great way to go local with your business is by doing the three goodness rules. Do good for yourself obviously because [...]
photo credit: ckaroli Many business owners wonder how they can get a little inside information regarding their competitors such as their products, services, prices and more. I have put together a small list of some very helpful tips on spying on your competitors that I recently came across while reading an article located on Forbes.com. [...]
How Are You Going to Profit From the World Cup?
I just asked on Twitter: How are you profiting from the World Cup (for a post I’m working on)? How about you?
One evening in a Manhattan bar in February 2003, childhood friends, Ira Liran and Michael Kirban, were speaking with a couple of girls they had just met from Brazil. When asked what they missed most about their country, one of the girls, without hesitation, answered “agua de coco.” Coconut water, she explained, is the most [...]
Bubble Wrap Saves Energy In The Fridge
Like most kids Jared Mann enjoys playing with bubble wrap. Thanks in part to his ingenuity and the Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventor’s, Jared is also the creator of an energy-saving device made using bubble wrap. Jared was awarded second place in the Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventor’s, and received a $5,000 savings [...]
Daily Stack is time management tool created by designers Sebastian Rønde Thielke and Anders Højmose. Designboom reports the simple design allows users to help track their work flow by creating physical representations of their tasks. The design consists of a small base and a series of wood blocks that each have a different colour and [...]
Author Offers Advice For Baby Boomers
KansasCity.com recently interviewed mompreneur and author Mary Beth Izard about her book titled, BoomerPreneurs. She offers advice to baby boomers that would like to start their own businesses. A lot of people have lost their jobs. How hard is it for someone who was always an employee to become an entrepreneur? I think for the [...]
According to The New York Times, after a towing company hauled Justin Kurtz’s car from his apartment complex parking lot, despite his permit to park there, Kurtz, 21, a college student in Kalamazoo, Mich., went to the Internet for revenge. Outraged at having to pay $118 to get his car back, Kurtz created a Facebook [...]
Game Inventor Is No Longer Pursuing Trivia
The Washington Street Journal: What game has the highest per-capita sales in Iceland? Which one has had its questions printed on Pringles chips? And what game was, at first, titled “Trivia Pursuit,” until its inventor’s wife suggested the name as a sly joke? Chris Haney, who died Monday at age 59 after a long illness, [...]
Make Money Selling Cell Phones with Amazon
I just got this press release from Amazon about AmazonWireless and thought I should share it. Amazon is excited to announce AmazonWireless – a new website by Amazon specializing in cell phones and wireless service plans. Starting today until August 31, 2010, Associates can now earn $65 per unit in advertising fees on AmazonWireless cell [...]
For some entrepreneurs, love doesn’t look like a heart. Instead, it looks like dollar signs. Washington Post: Max Hartshorn has pretty much mastered online dating. It took awhile, but the 24-year-old now knows exactly what kind of message to send to pique a woman’s interest. The Montreal research assistant will come home from work, sit [...]
Confidentiality Without a Patent
In my line of work, I’m often asked to sign confidentiality agreements before someone will tell me about their business or invention. Most often, I refuse. Not because I’m interested in stealing their idea (ideas are easy, execution is hard) but because it’s very possible for someone to share information with me about their project, [...]
Toy Rental Service Targets Waiting Rooms
Serving businesses in Vancouver, B.C., Lucky Duck Toy Box offers a solution to the problem of old, dirty, worn out toys in waiting rooms, reports trendspotter Springwise. Instead, it delivers a fresh assortment of sanitized playthings to keep businesses’ youngest customers safe and entertained. All toys are lead-tested, inspected and cleaned with environmentally friendly products. [...]
For sale: one Aston Martin Silver Birch DB5s. It’s not the most fuel efficient car available, but it does have a revolving license plate, a tire slasher, twin machine guns, rear oil sprayer, smoke screen, nail disperser, radar, retractable bullet-proof screen, and a passenger ejector seat. Oh yeah, and it’s had only one previous owner: [...]
The iPad apparently isn’t just good for browsing the web and watching video in style. It can also bend spoons, and make books, birds and money appear out of thin air. At least that’s what one Japanese street magician wants you to believe. By combining some sleight of hand, camera trickery, rehearsed timing and a [...]
Google Ditches Microsoft Windows
According to Business Insider, Google is banning Microsoft Windows from internal use. Employees will be given the choice between Apple’s Mac OS and Linux. Adding insult to injury, Google is also publicly citing Windows security problems for the decision and blaming Windows vulnerabilities for the China hacking incident. So that’s 20,000+ Windows licenses that won’t [...]
Behind the cash register at Smoke Shop No. 2 in downtown San Francisco, Sam Azar swipes a customer’s credit card to ring up cigarettes. The store’s card reader fails to scan the card’s magnetic strip. Azar swipes again, and again. No luck. As customers begin to queue, he reaches beneath the counter for a black [...]
A Close Shave In UK Razor Battle
TVNZ: British shaving entrepreneur Will King is taking on Gillette, the superpower of the shaving industry, as his brand hits number 2 in the UK market. And King says he is seeking similar success in New Zealand with his King of Shaves brand. King’s idea to start the King of Shaves came from his dissatisfaction [...]
From Butterflies’ Wings To Bank Notes
Scientists have discovered a way of mimicking the stunningly bright and beautiful colors found on the wings of tropical butterflies. The findings could have important applications in the security printing industry, helping to make bank notes and credit cards harder to forge, reports EurekAlert.org. The striking iridescent colors displayed on beetles, butterflies and other insects [...]
TampaBay.com: Everybody has dreams. Steve Granade’s is more streets like his own in Countryside that’s decked out with flags sprouting from two dozen curbside mailboxes. “I see waves of mailbox flags spreading from neighborhood to neighborhood,” said the 55-year-old hobbyist-inventor of a $4 stick-on bracket that makes it possible. “People turned to displaying the flag [...]
Wish you could get a Boston Celtics logo emblazoned across a pepperoni pizza that’s delivered right to your door? Or wish you could get a Los Angeles Lakers logo on the toast that pops out of your toaster? You can stop wishing. According to USA TODAY, the National Basketball Association has figured out what fans [...]
Don’t Overlook Jobs Created by Failed Bizs
With unemployment at stubbornly high levels, Washington’s attention is focused on job creation. Recent research has shown that the formation of businesses is the source of much net job creation, according to a story at BusinessWeek. But when discussing job creation by entrepreneurs, most observers focus on successful new businesses, assuming that most jobs are [...]
USA TODAY reports that homes are increasingly being built in the United States to use little or no energy, a trend that could help reduce U.S. dependence on oil and gas, according to a new book. Zero energy homes are becoming the new green,” says David Johnston, one of the nation’s leading experts on green [...]
YouTube Wants You to Sit and Stay Awhile
Two weeks ago, YouTube celebrated when the number of videos viewed daily on its site reached two billion, a milestone. But according to The New York Times, it also used the occasion to express its envy of television’s continuing hold on viewers: “Although the average user spends 15 minutes a day on YouTube, that’s tiny [...]
An All-In-One Shipping Service
If your company isn’t quite big enough to receive the best deals from companies like UPS or the USPS, a third party provider of their services might be able to help. USS Logistics is one of those companies, offering a variety of shipping options for freight and small parcel packages. If your business spends a [...]
