Archive for January 2011
Did You Realize That Your Business Already Has a Website?
Everyone says that businesses needs a website. Every web developer in the city has cold-called you and offered to build you a site. The phone company has attempted to upsell you on adding a website to your display advertisement in the telephone directory. Your nephew has even offered to build one for you. But you’ve [...]
Video: Evaluating Your Performance
My second of two videos for YellowBook is up at the site YellowBook360 Building Success. In this one, I spoke with Eric Model of Seal & Co., a children’s boutique store in Summit, New Jersey about Evaluating Your Performance. You can view the video after the jump, or on the site.
Firm Creates Niche Painting Stripes
They do lines — lots of lines. You’ll find them in parking lots, airports and even at Miami’s Doral Golf Resort. The company We Do Lines USA is one of the few companies nationwide that specializes in striping — creating those white, iridescent lines to mark off parking spaces. According to Bradenton.com, the Connecticut-based firm, [...]
Working in partnership with the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, YesPleaseMore aims to provide an economic development platform that gives participating creatives funding for new innovations, the opportunity to sell their wares, and a nurturing environment for creative entrepreneurial culture and reported by trendspotter Springwise. Its pop-up souvenir shop in a vacant retail space within [...]
College Grad Takes The Tea Route
After graduating with her Master’s degree, Joanna Davies went in search for the right job. When a job didn’t materialize, she did the next best thing reports Dorset Echo. The local girl returned to her home town to set up new business, The Gilded Teapot, after graduating a year ago with a masters degree in [...]
If you get nervous when you think that someone is about to turn you down, whether in sales or in your other relationships, there’s a game you can play to teach yourself to get over it. Called Rejection Therapy, it has only one rule: You must be rejected by another person every single day. Basically [...]
Big Ideas 2011: The Battle For Your Living Room
In September, Steve Jobs introduced his company’s Apple TV, a little box that lives on top of your television and streams movies, as “one more hobby.” Inc.com reports that competition for your home-entertainment is getting serious. Google and start-ups like Boxee, Hulu, and Roku are jostling for space on your television screen with stand-alone gadgets [...]
Mobile Devices Changing The Way Biz Owners Work
If you find yourself spending more time holding on to your favorite smart phone than your significant other’s hand, you’re not alone. According to Business News Daily, a new survey shows that 60% of small business owners are confessing to a similar problem. Staples, the office supply company, conducted a poll exploring the use of [...]
Online Shoppers Look To Buy From Trusted Sources
When Kristen and Chris Conn of Evanston wanted to help other parents find and buy safe, nontoxic merchandise, they turned to the Internet. The result wasMightyNest.com, an online business the husband-wife team launched in October 2009 that marries content and commerce to cost effectively reach busy parents. The Chicago Tribune reports that thanks to consumers’ [...]
Top 5 Microbiz Opportunities For 2011
According to Dawn Rivers Baker over at SmallBizTrends.com, microbusiness opportunities often build from everybody else’s opportunities. If one of the big trends to watch in 2011 is travel and tourism, then the microbusiness opportunity lies in providing the personal touch–for example, via a B&B or by supplying the handcrafted soaps used by the local Big [...]
Earn Money With Your Own NightOut Directory
Ever wonder what is going on in your neighborhood after dark? If you’re wondering, then there are probably others in your community that are wondering the same thing. For anyone looking for an opportunity to provide this service while making a little money, Optimal Media Group is the place to look. Optimal Media is the [...]
2010: Big Year For Remote Web Workers
John Paul Titlow over at ReadWriteWeb.com reports that this year proved to be a strong one for online employment, as more and more took to the Web to find work, where an increasing number of jobs are for employers in other geographic areas, according to a report released by Elance. Elance reported its one-millionth job [...]
Healthy Little Plants… In A Glass
Most 10 year old kids would start a lemonade stand or mow lawns to make some extra money. According to My Granite Bay, one little girl chose a different approach. Anna Azevedo is a 5th grade honor roll student at Franklin Elementary School in Loomis, CA. who wants to learn how to ride horses. Naturally, [...]
E-Book Trends That Will Change Publishing
From the front lines of the e-book revolution, here are five trends Philip Ruppel, president of McGraw-Hill Professional, is watching. 1. Enhanced E-Books Are Coming and Will Only Get Better Consumers have already shown that they love e-books for their convenience and accessibility, but ultimately most e-books today are the same as print, just in [...]
A Blooming Kiddie Hair Accessory Business
Heather Gniffke found herself on bed rest, and in need of something to do. Determined to find something interesting she could enjoy, Heather found inspiration in her daughter. Her daughter always enjoyed having her hair done up, but most of the hair accessories that she wanted were out of their budget. That is when a [...]
Big Ideas 2011: Rethinking Retail
Online retailers have always competed by offering convenience and low prices, but they’ve lately began to master the art of getting people to buy things they don’t yet know they want. Inc.com reports that these new start-ups—like Gilt Group, LivingSocial, and Groupon—send locally targeted e-mails (hello, Shreveport, Louisiana!), give huge discounts (50 percent off is [...]
Sandi Gonzalez can thank strong friendships, her family, and the desire to do something for her community for the strength to start her own business reports The Review. Men and women can bring in gently used clothing, and Gonzalez will sell it and offer a percent of the sales back to the original owner. It’s [...]
Trends That Will Define Opportunity This Year
Hard to believe, but according to the learned folks at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the economy’s been in recovery since June 2009. Entrepreneur.com reports that a big reason for the stagnation so far has been, well, YOU. Tons of people–71 percent, says a recent survey by Discover Small Business Watch–are waiting for economic [...]
Checking trademark availability is an essential when creating a company. If you mistakenly choose a company name that a 3rd party has already trademarked, you might later be forced to change your company’s name and pay damages. Until now, checking for taken trademarks was a lengthy process that usually required you to spend money. But [...]
Happy New Year from Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog. I hope that 2011 brings you much success!
