Archive for July 15th, 2010
Business Idea: Cupcake Liner Website
Today’s free business idea is to start a website that sells cupcake liners. Cupcake liners are the sheets of thin paper pressed into a round, fluted cup shape. Liners can facilitate the easy removal of the cupcake from the tin after baking, keep the cupcake moister, and reduce the effort needed to clean the pan. [...]
Economies of Scale and Business Start Up
The book Big Box Swindle:The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses raises important questions and suggests some interesting ideas that should be of interest to work at home entrepreneurs who struggle to overcome the “Big Boys’” economies of scale. The main argument against the “Big Box” and it’s “low low [...]
Back to School 2010 to Be Big!
Back-to-school spending is expected to be robust this year as parents replenish their kids’ wardrobes and backpacks after two years of weak demand for school gear. Having outgrown shoes, shirts and even backpacks they’ve used the last two years, children heading back to school this year will arrive in style. The National Retail Federation’s 2010 [...]
New Bizop Classified Ads This Week
New listing this week on the Business Opportunities Weblog Classifieds. Directv 1st Month Free Service With Directv Noahs Ark Animal Work Shop Noahs Ark Animal Workshop $1000 Commission Per Sale Corrected – Make Money With Ashmax (corrected) – Can You Take A Simple Photograph? Get Paid To Travel Web Researcher – Get Paid To Surf [...]
The founders of Diapers.com today launched Soap.com, a new retail website for household products, vitamins, toliet paper and well, soap, at competitive prices over the internet. I know that my wife has been excitedly awaiting the launch. She’s a big Diapers.com fan is hopeful that low prices from Soap.com will mean that she never has [...]
BallStars is a sports-affiliated business that uses a proprietary technology to reproduce full color images on sports paraphernalia, such as baseballs, soccer balls, baseballs, hockey pucks, volleyballs, and footballs. In addition to the sports balls, the photographs can also be applied to other curved surfaces and materials. Licensing a BallStars business offers plenty of opportunities [...]
Ray Charles’ Copyrights A Lucrative Biz
Music legend Ray Charles capitalized on music publishing angle: he began recording a lot of public domain songs, like “America The Beautiful,” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” where he published the arrangement. Reuters reports that today, the Ray Charles Marketing Group represents about 500 songs from those companies, including about a dozen Charles wrote [...]
Entrepreneur Thinks Outside The Spa Box
With all of the rocking chairs and antique furniture sitting around Stephanie Grenadier’s new business you might think this was more like a cozy room than a massage studio. However she intentionally avoided that spa-like look reports the PatriotLedger.com. “(Spas) have a conveyor belt type of mentality. It’s like in and out,” she said. “You [...]
After selling mattresses for 38 years and founding an 80 store chain of mattress stores, Jerry Wilson knew a thing or two about mattresses. When he noticed a huge increase in the number of chemicals in the mattress he sold, Jerry Wilson thought he’d realized that there was a market for something different. After months [...]
David Nemetz and his high school buds grew up in Silicon Valley getting their sports info from ESPN.com. But the mainstream site was, well, mainstream. Where, they muttered, were the reports on mixed martial arts? So after college, the foursome pooled close to $100,000 from their families to hire software developers to create an “open-source” [...]
Bringing Life To Action Figures
Mike Bellon, founder of Action Sports Toys, LLC, was inspired while surfing to create a toy that would allow children to mimic his moves on the water, reports The Village News. “I was riding a wave at Mission Beach when I decided I wanted to be innovative. I looked at electronics and computers, but I [...]
Is there someplace you could put this pay-to-sit bench with coin operated retractable spikes? I don’t think it’ll be long before airports and malls have something like this. They already have something similar (but less spikey) to deter sleeping.
Disabled Adults Seek Their Own Businesses
David Shunkey is autistic and around the same time the recession hit he lost two jobs. Now he’s trying to launch his own business reports The Wall Street Journal. More mentally and physically challenged adults are looking to entrepreneurship as they get closed out of an exceptionally competitive job market, according to several organizations that [...]
Old Spice Guy Takes Over the Internet
It was the viral ad campaign you wished your viral ad campaign would look like. On the Air: Marrying Twitter, You Tube, a rising TV personality and a hot ad campaign all in one, Old Spice made a unique online splash this week by posting nearly 100 video shorts in one day and approximately double [...]
New University Patents Database
According to The Patent Librarian’s Notebook, FreePatentsOnline has partnered with Technology Transfer Tactics, a website for university tech transfer professionals, to provide a resource for searching university-owned patents. Data for about 150 universities (mostly American) is available. Clicking on a name of a university will retrieve a list of US patents and published applications assigned [...]
Automatic Waterer Keeps Fresh Water Flowing For Chickens
If you’ve ever left water out in the hot sun then you know exactly what it looks and smells like by the end of the day. Fresh won’t exactly describe what you’ll find. Put that same container of water into your chicken house and then see what also gets into it. It was during one [...]
The Manhole Cover Picker-Upper
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, opening manhole covers, which weigh up to 400 lbs., is difficult at best and dangerous at worst. Dave Roberts, 51, who spent 25 years lifting them while working for waste-water authorities in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, decided to find a better way. A perpetual tinkerer, Roberts designed a machine to remove the [...]
