Archive for November 12th, 2010
Unique Products To Inspire And Amuse. Now I can REALLY use my iPad. Soft, warm, blue and enormous, ’nuff said. Honey, I had a dream I was at Denny’s. Heck, it worked for ZZ Top. These products are actually a product themselves…Prank Packs. Arik Nordby makes fake gift boxes, and his company 30Watt is releasing [...]
Game Inventor Hopes To Spawn New Craze
Put down your Monopoly counters and pack up your Cluedo pieces because a new board game has arrived in Wokingham. The Wokingham Times reports that entrepreneur Phil Annets revealed his first toy venture, Whirred Play, last week when he showed the game to residents at Barkham Post Office. The game is a clever word challenge [...]
Free Holiday Shipping At Walmart
Walmart ups the ante for holiday shopping. They have announced free shipping on 60,000 holiday items, including electronics, video games, toys, jewelry and furniture. There is no minimum purchase amount and returns are free, too. The free shipping offer ends Dec. 20, 2010. WalletPop says Walmart estimates the free shipping offer will save shoppers $25 [...]
Why So Many Entrepreneurs Get Divorced
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg is a journalist and the wife of Gary Hirshberg, president and CEO of Stonyfield Yogurt, she writes at Inc.com: No one, as far as I know, breaks out divorce statistics for entrepreneurs, but I’d wager they’re higher than the U.S. average. Fortunately, my husband and I are not among that number. The [...]
via: The Pajama Pundit
There’s an old business adage that goes like this: “You’re wasting half of your marketing dollars. Unfortunately, you don’t know which half.” What was true fifty years ago at the height of the print and radio advertising market is also true today in the digital age. Small advertisers on limited budgets can’t compete dollar-for-dollar with [...]
As the years have passed, there hasn’t been much that has changed about the transmission that is used in vehicles today. One inventor aims to change it completely reports The Calgary Herald. Gary Lee, a Utah inventor and his company VMT Technologies, has recently developed a transmission concept that if successful might just forever change [...]
Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain and famous for stories such as Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, also was an inventor and received a total of three patents. According to a USPTO press release, while living in Hartford, Conn., Twain, received his first patent for an adjustable strap that could be used to [...]
Miami Expo Teaches Women Entrepreneurship
Yesterday the Miami Museum of Science was filled with women in business suits handing out business cards reports the Miami Herald. They networked and learned how to brand themselves, become entrepreneurs and earn more money at the Empowered Woman’s Success Summit & Expo Miami. The two-day event ends Friday and has more than 800 people [...]
Baby Boomers Buying Habits Change
Because the way we think and process information evolves as we age, experts say the way we behave as consumers also changes. According to Jim Shea at The Hartford Courant, as a result, members of the baby-boom generation are now at a stage in life where emotion and gut feelings play a bigger role in [...]
Vet Realizes Entrepreneurial Dream
Cornell Irons has spent 29 years in the U.S. Army but now he is taking on a new challenge: entrepreneurship. Officially retiring in December, he has created a new life for himself as a Charley’s Grilled Subs entrepreneur reports RGJ.com. “Even before I went into the military, I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur,” [...]
Coca-Cola And The Birth Of The Coupon
“Delicious! Refreshing! Exhilarating! Invigorating!” When John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in 1886, not even that adrenalized ad slogan could persuade customers to try it over all the other carbonated wonder tonics on the market. According to Wired, his bookkeeper started giving away tickets for free tastes of Coke, but Pemberton chided him for “extravagance.” Then along [...]
Readers of a certain age will remember the fun of getting the giant Sears Wish Book in the mail at the start of the holiday season and paging through it to mark all the desired gifts. According to AppScout, the Wish Book is online now and Sears has added social features this year. Just in [...]
