Archive for January 11th, 2011
Niche Music Company Keeps Price, Message On Track
According to a story in The Tennessean, Mike and Sue Gay figured they had a pretty good idea for a new business, but they never expected it to become what it has. Now, 17 years into their homegrown music company that features children’s songs with a Christian bent, the couple has sold more than 20 [...]
Jimmy Berke checks on trays of bright red tomatoes drying in a specially equipped 90-degree solar room that includes dehumidifiers and fans, reports The Palm Beach Post. He’s pleased to see they’re coming along, soon to be on their way to customers who love the sun-dried products his business Leechango Plantation at Turtle Creek produces. [...]
Law enforcement agencies don’t flip through old yearbooks when they want information on a suspect anymore—they turn to Facebook and Twitter. Social media sites say they are constantly besieged with requests for information. Facebook told Newsweek in 2009 that it received between 10 and 20 requests for information each day. The New York Times reports [...]
HydroCar Inventor Puts It Up For Sale
Rick Dobbertin, the man who created a HydroCar out of a 1959 milk tank truck and drove it around the world, has created a second vehicle and he’s now trying to sell it on ebay reports Reuters. Dobbertin, 58, of Pennellville in upstate New York, spent almost nine years and $300,000 building the HydroCar. It [...]
Pure eCommerce 2nd Annual Business Give Away
If your idea for a fabulous online business is still at the thinking stage, Jennifer Gault-Varner of Pure eCommerce has a proposition for you. Describe your idea for the perfect retail ecommerce business on the online form at Pure e-Commerce, and you could win the business of your dreams. The company that produces turnkey e-commerce [...]
Chili is possibly one of the most simple, yet complex foods today. Anyone could make chili, but not everyone can make it good. However, one company is helping the average person change that. Cin Chili offers a variety of spices and products that can help the home cook create the type of chili that will [...]
Ever since transportation authorities placed rigorous limits on the amount of liquids allowed on flights, travellers have had to figure out how to both pack their favourite toiletries and comply with those regulations. According to trendspotter Springwise, helping consumers avoid bag-check charges or confiscation of their non-compliant toiletries and cosmetics, New York-based 3floz is an [...]
Opportunitity Is In The ‘Contact’ Of The Beholder
Hayden Hamilton kept getting asked by his online pharmacy customers why contacts were so expensive. According to OregonLive.com, he decided to seek out an answer. He concluded there was no good reason for contacts to run $20 a box or more, other than pure profit for the handful of manufacturers that control the market. “It [...]
Five Payment Trends To Watch In 2011
2010 dramatically changed how we think about how people and businesses exchange money. We saw ecommerce continue to grow and we saw emerging channels take flight with consumers and merchants of all sizes. Osama Bedier from PayPal shares his views with Mobile Beat. Mobile, mobile, mobile Wallet in the cloud. The digital wallet. Call it [...]
USA Today interviews FootzyRoll co-founders and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Caplan about the creation of their small business and strategies they are using to grow it.
