Archive for July 19th, 2010
Used Books: Big Business – The Secrets to Selling Books Online for Big Profits
Part 2 of this post is now online: Why Would Someone Write A Book That Gives Away Their Secrets? (Used Books: Big Profits Part 2). Have you ever thought you’d like to start a business from home? Do you have some books laying around collecting dust? If you said yes to both questions, selling used [...]
Kindle Books Now Outsell Real Books on Amazon
In a statement today, Amazon said that, “over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books.” If you’re not profiting from this, you should be. Look for [...]
Don’t Let Employees at Big Companies Scare You
When exploring new business ideas, people often assume that just because something doesn’t exist that there’s no market. An often heard expression of this belief is: If there was money to be made in this, Google (or whoever) would have released a product already. Nothing could be further from the truth. Although large corporations might [...]
Can You Use This Technique To Fund Your Business Expansion?
The Schumacher Institute offers this case study of a local business person expanding his business without means of bank financing… I just ate today at a local Deli that changed hands recently. I wonder if the owner is wishing right now he had some extra capital to expand? Maybe I need to mention this to [...]
GroovyBalls is a new toy made from 216 rare-earth magnetic balls formed into a cube shape, which can be used to make millions of different shapes and patterns. Video after the jump.
Man Cave: A Party Business for Men
A reader wrote: I just received an invitation to a Man Cave MEATing. What is it? Glad you asked. Man Cave is a sales party business for men. As Man Cave explains on their website: “Thousands of companies demonstrate and sell products to groups of women in their homes. Man Cave is finally doing it [...]
Niche Biz: The Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit
This real product and is available at BSRemoval.com.
When That Crazy Idea Hits, Run With It
According to Women Entrepreneur, Julie Hall knew her entrepreneurial time had come. Here’s how she did it. Through my passion for buying and selling estate items, I uncovered a huge, unfilled niche. My elderly clients had too much stuff in their homes. They needed help downsizing when they moved into assisted-living facilities or made decisions [...]
ArgusLeader.com: Bouncing cartoon-fat arctic tires across a clover-covered grass runway near Brandon, pilot Wes Hebert gunned the Piper Super Cub 18′s 160-horsepower engine, pulled back on the stick and lifted effortlessly into the air at a harsh, 50-degree angle of attack. “That was about 100 feet, I’d guess,” Mark Erickson, owner of Dakota Cub Aircraft, [...]
A New York baker wants to change the images of cupcakes. Traditionally, most cupcake bakeries have been targeted at women. The Butch Bakery targets men with their beer, whiskey and bacon flavored cupcakes. SkyNews has more.
CNNMoney reports Inland Surfer founder Jeff Page started his business 10 years ago after friends introduced him to lake surfing behind boats. Photo by Inland Surfer.
The Mercury News recently interviewed Gina Bianchini, founder and ex-CEO of Ning, about her time with the company, her parting and what might happen next for this inspiring female entrepreneur. Q What was the original idea behind Ning? A We had a very simple premise. What if we gave people an opportunity to create their [...]
The invention and application of the digital players marks that mankind has entered the Digital Age, during which period people seldom use vinyl records or CD players. But we never forget them, and designer Pavel Sidorenko has applied the clock idea to vinyl records, creating several clocks of various shapes. INewIdea.com has a look at [...]
They have become a filter for our world. Through them we can access information, games, entire virtual worlds. Not the internet, nor our computers, not tablets or laptops – just little programs on our phones. Millions of little programs. What are the real numbers behind these programs, and why are there so many of them? [...]
Colorado Warns Bizs Of Theft Scam
Colorado’s Secretary of State and other officials are warning the state’s 800,000 or so registered businesses to watch out for scammers who have been forging business identities to make fraudulent purchases from several big-box retailers in recent months, reports PC World. The corporate identity thefts itself were possible because of what appears to have been [...]
