Archive for July 27th, 2010
Know any biz owners in NYC? I’m looking for a couple that I can interview at their location, on camera, for a three minute interview about online marketing in the next couple of weeks. Email me dane@danecarlson.com or call me 209-379-5371. Photo by joeywan
Vitamin D: The Supplement of the Decade?
A age old supplement that is delivered free from the sun promises to be the supplement of the decade. How will you profit from Vitamin D? NY Times: Vitamin D promises to be the most talked-about and written-about supplement of the decade. While studies continue to refine optimal blood levels and recommended dietary amounts, the [...]
Inventor Missed Out On A Fortune
According to NewsCore, the former eye doctor who discovered the wrinkle-reducing properties of Botox missed out on a fortune after she and her dermatologist husband failed to patent the anti-ageing procedure they discovered in Canada. Dr. Jean Carruthers’ eureka moment came in 1987 when she spotted that the injections she used to stop eye spasms [...]
It’s All Pizza And Car Sales For Young Entrepreneur
The next generation of young social-preneurs may rely on more young innovators like Joey Ronca reports the Cleveland Daily Banner. Although Ronca currently works with his father in their family-owned Italian Bistro, the soft-spoken Italian said his plans are to broaden his economic horizons as a young leader of the social enterprise movement. “I’m currently [...]
Unemployment rates in most states fell in June, which means fewer people unemployed, right? According to the experts, it isn’t that more people have jobs — it’s that fewer people are still looking for work. Apparently if you aren’t looking for a job, the government doesn’t consider you unemployed. The insanity of this logic is [...]
Disabled Vets Head To Business Boot Camp
Sgt. Neil Avant was on his way to a meeting in Baghdad when a man wearing women’s clothing and a bomb blew himself up. The injuries that he suffered were a enough to end his service with the army but they were not enough to break his entrepreneurial spirit reports The Los Angeles Times. Earlier [...]
Who first coined the phrase, “Necessity, the mother of invention?” George Farquhar Emily Dickinson William Shakespeare Thomas Edison William Ramsay View Results Answer tomorrow.
RedLine For Your Garage And Closet
Almost everyone has seen or heard about a closet system that allows you to maximize the space in your bedroom but what about in your garage? RedLine offers both systems. Their RedLine Garagegear line allows home owners to make the most out of the space in their garage. Whether you want a template design or [...]
According to The Daily Grommet, Lexi Glenn was just 10 years old when she invented the Pumponator. She was determined to find a parent-approved way to fill water balloons by herself – without soaking the bathroom floor or leaving a swath of soggy grass by the garden hose. Rummaging around in her grandmother garage one [...]
New Show Looking For Inventors & Entrepreneurs
Stephen Key over at InventRight.com emailed me about a new prime-time show on the Discovery Channel. He’s trying to get the word out to inventors about this opportunity. The program will feature two hosts (who are experts in invention/innovation/product development) who travel around the country meeting people who are working on “the next great idea”. [...]
In business we all know that clicking with our customers is the ultimate key. It’s the key to getting them to come back more then once as well as getting them to refer our company to their friends and family and also giving good reviews. So how exactly do you know how to click [...]
Open Forum: When you’re a small business owner looking to get your company’s message out, perhaps the last thing you’re thinking about is the actual writing of a press release. If your business is not ready to hire a publicist, much less a strategic PR team, then the person who will be writing that [...]
