Archive for August 2011
Bilingual Fun Helps Kids Learn Spanish
Besides the advantage of speaking to people of more than one language, knowing multiple languages can help an adult move ahead in the workforce. Being bilingual means you have a better future ahead of you, and Bilingual Fun hopes to help your children find that success. Jennifer Manriquez is a former Spanish teacher, and her [...]
Five Facebook Musts For Entrepreneurs
Social media can seem daunting, but it is also an important way to connect with customers for many entrepreneurs. If you’re just getting started, Fox Small Business has some ideas that will help you start off right. No. 1: Create a professional company page. Instead of having a personal page for your small business, Anteau [...]
Small Biz-Friendly Computers: HP vs Apple
Computer companies are beginning to understand that big business is not the only type of business they should try to reach. Small business may not need as many computers, but they are an important niche too. Besides the age-old Microsoft vs. Mac argument, HP and Apple offer small business-friendly services to help drive your dollars [...]
Naples Daily News: A retired entrepreneur isn’t letting the summer weather rain on his parade — or rather, his lanai. Johansen is the creator of DryLanai, a product that works in conjunction with electric storm shutters to protect outdoor living spaces from rain. Sensors are placed strategically on any patio with electric storm shutters. When [...]
Making Money from the “Biblical End Times”
Business Week: Todd Strandberg, the proprietor of RaptureReady.com — the most popular Rapture-preparedness website in the world—is part of a new generation of entrepreneurs trying to take advantage of Camping’s absence. Unlike Camping, the new apocalypse establishment is offering an unprecedented array of doomsday-themed literature, podcasts, survival kits, and other goods and services for navigating [...]
Fast Company: Photovoltaic cells are best known for turning sunlight into electrical power—and they’re big business. But did you know that there’s a type of PV cell that eats heat instead of light to make power? It could replace the Li-ion battery in your cell phone, and it may also be used to scavenge waste [...]
World Adult Kickball Now Franchising
The World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) recently began franchising in the United States. The program will leverage the organization’s 13 years of success bringing fun and happiness to hundreds of thousands of kickball players across the country and will offer one of the most exciting, affordable, high “fun” franchises in the marketplace. How WAKA Kickball [...]
A new business in Warsaw, Indiana is helping to clean up downed trees after recent storms. Indiana Urban Lumber, run by woodworker Bill Burr, mills wood. None of their wood comes from the forest though. Instead, when a tree needs to be taken down from someone’s yard, or in a city park, or outside a [...]
