Archive for July 21st, 2010
American Basketball Association Sports Marketing
Sports marketing and licensing brands are growing niches in the consumer marketing industry. The ABA, a well-known brand developed over 40 years ago when the American Basketball Association was first launched, is in the midst of expansion. The colorful basketball and ABA league logo are well known to millions of people. The ABA was relaunched [...]
David Warren’s father died in a 1934 Bass Strait air crash. Warren graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science. He became the principal research scientist at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation’s Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne from 1952 to 1983. In 1953, Warren was involved in the investigation of the [...]
A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business
The funniest jokes are the ones that turn into successful businesses, like Antenn-Aid. NY Times: After Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference last week, Szymon Weglarski and Jon Dorfman, two designers from Brooklyn, decided they would have a little fun with the iPhone 4’s antenna problem. They designed tiny bandages that fit perfectly around the edge [...]
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Wired: The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is calling for small businesses to build what it calls an Intelligent Robo-Pallet: mechanical platforms that can haul stuff onto its planes autonomously. It’s got to be able to move on its own, lift and stack as cargo masters instruct, possess a [...]
How to Make Money from Old Electronics
Gazelle turns your old electronics into cash. At their website, they ask you questions about your old cellphone, MP3 player, digital camera, etc., and they immediately tell you what they’ll pay you for it. If you like what you see, they’ll send you a postage paid envelope and you send back the item and then [...]
Tina sent us an email wanting to know if drop shipping really works. So I checked in with James Maguire over at Ecommerce-Guide. Maguire says as Internet retailing was getting started in the mid ’90s, online storeowners assumed drop-shipping would be the answer to their every worry. Filling orders through drop-shipping (sometimes called “virtual inventory”) [...]
Dig This, the construction theme park business I wrote about earlier today and first mentioned in August 2008 is now offering franchises. According to the company, the initial Franchise fee for starting a DIG THIS® Franchise is $75,000. In addition to your franchise fee, you can expect to invest another $100,000.00 to $200,000.00 in the [...]
If You Build It, Will They Buy It?
They built it and boy-oh-boy did they come. The Boston Globe reports that an estimated 1 million visitors have journeyed to the “Field of Dreams’’ movie site since the Academy Award-nominated film was released in 1989. But the owners of the farm, Don and Becky Lansing, say they have gone the distance, and now the [...]
Teen Creates Jewelry From Broken Skateboards
While most teens are spending their summer sleeping in Alex Wells has been hard at work creating jewelry for his business, Rebound says the Daily Press. For almost a year and a half, Wells has been taking used and broken skateboards and creating aesthetically and artistically creative pieces of jewelry. The idea for the jewelry, [...]
Construction Theme Park: A Super-Sized Sandbox for Adults
A Nevada entrepreneur wants to open a theme park called Dig This outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, where people can operate bulldozers, backhoes and dump trucks. Sounds like a great idea to me, especially in the wide open spaces of Nevada. Unfortunately, the neighbors don’t agree. MyNews3 has more: The project has been envisioned as [...]
Erich Spangenberg makes a fortune by buying patents and then suing large corporations that are infringing on them. Good.is takes a look at his unusual and vilified profession: Trolling works something like this: First a shell company, which is incorporated but has no significant assets or operations, is created. Orion IP is one of Spangenberg’s [...]
How To Compete With Groupon Clones
This article makes a good point. It’s titled How To Compete With A Million Other Groupon Clones: Find A Niche. Groupon is a “daily coupon” website. It’s basically an email list that charges advertisers to send out their “coupons” called Groupons. Many small businesses I’d likely never hear about otherwise send me their coupons this [...]
According to BBC News, Gurcharn Sahota works on some of the world’s fastest cars at his workshop just outside Derby. But if you’re used to spending £5 on getting the car cleaned at the local garage, forget it. Gurcharn says he uses painstaking cleaning methods to make £1 million supercars look almost better than new. [...]
Mompreneur Starts Tech Company To Help Kids With Disabilities
The Roanoke Times: Margaret Ellis talks expressively and laughs often about her work and family, two parts of her life intertwined. “Running a business is nothing compared to raising Mary,” the Blacksburg mother said. Margaret, 35, started DevelopEase LLC, an education consulting and application-development company, last year. She focuses on helping children with disabilities learn [...]
They call America the land of opportunity, but few would question the notion that it is also the land of contrasts. Mint.com reports that all you need to do is look at the statistics compiled on a regular basis by the Department of Labor, Census Bureau and other government institutions to see the stark differences [...]
More Dads Are Taking The Stay-At-Home Route
The term “stay-at-home dad” is just as accurate as “stay-at-home mom” considering they are hardly ever home says the poughkeepsiejournal.com. In the Schmitz family, it is Judy Schmitz who boards a train each morning to her job in Albany. She is marketing and web services manager for the SUNY Learning Network, a system of online [...]
This hack by David Rudolf Bakker, in which he affixed binder clips to the side of his desk and placed his component wires into the curvy niche of the clip handles. So simple! Photo by David Rudolf Bakker.
Inventor’s Journal: Bill Phelps
Here’s another episode of our new program, Inventor’s Journal. This week Rich Whittle interviews Bill Phelps about his word game Yamodo.
Most of us start planning our tax season in the beginning of each new year, this way we are prepared for when tax season is actually upon us. Below is a few tips on how to plan your taxes so that you get the most out of it that I recently read on Open Forum. [...]
Good Tips Are Not A Dime A Dozen
Many of us has heard that saying “tips are a dime a dozen”, which is not always true. Yes you may be receiving a bunch of tips every day in your business, but that does not mean that those tips are worth listening to. Good tips can be hard to come by sometimes, and those [...]
