Archive for February 7th, 2012
I Want to Meet My Readers in South Africa
I know I have a number of readers in South Africa, but I don’t have any contacts there. If you read this site and live in South Africa, say hi!
A Lice Removal Business Opportunity
That was fast. Larada Sciences, makers of the LouseBuster™, mentioned in this previous post, also offer LouseBuster as a business opportunity. Larada Sciences is a science-based medical technology company dedicated to the safe elimination of human head lice infestations. Our revolutionary new product, the LouseBuster device, is a breakthrough medical device that provides a safe, [...]
Prepping for Doomsday: Turning a Profit
ABC News: The never-ending hysteria over a Doomsday cometh has sparked a growing movement of people called “preppers,” who prepare for the end of the world as we know it — and in some cases, make a profit. Tim Ralston, a married father of two from Arizona, is one such “prepper.” “There’s a lot of [...]
Lice Removal is an Untapped Niche!
I love lice removal stories. A reader sent in this guest post about her her lice removal business. This is a huge untapped niche! I’m always amazed at how easy it was to turn something disgusting and shameful into something that is totally normal and profitable. When Carrie Madej decided to start her new business, [...]
Infographic: 10 Ways to Increase Sales in 2012
Customers are always the core of any business. However, in 2012, customers will require more personalize attention than ever before. Luckily, businesses can easily accomplish this by embracing analytics and new technologies that will help them build unprecedented relationships with their customers. Here are Truaxis’ top ways to increase sales in the new year while [...]
The Grilled Cheese Truck is a Los Angeles, California based food truck that sells grilled cheese. Inspiration happens when you least expect it! What started as a fun, weekend activity to enter our Cheesy Mac and Rib Melt into LA’s 7th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational quickly became the idea behind The Grilled Cheese Truck. After [...]
82% of Americans say that they never leave home without their cellphones. 42% say that can’t live without them. According to the Science Museum in London, that may seem true but it’s not. The cellphone hasn’t changed your life nearly as much as many mundane items you don’t even think about. The ingenuity of a [...]
Lifehacker has up a list of the best sites to raise money and get your ideas off the ground For The Most Attention: Kickstarter For App-Builders, Game Designers, and Developers: IndieGoGo For Inventors and Gadget Creators: Quirky For Musicians: Bandcamp For Crafty Types: Etsy For Global Users: RocketHub Photo by mmaxer/ShutterStock.
The iPhone is Bigger Than Microsoft
Henry Blodget: Apple’s iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft. Not Windows. Not Office. Microsoft. Think about that. The iPhone did not exist five years ago. And now it’s bigger than a company that, 15 years ago, was dragged into court and threatened with forcible break-up because it had amassed an unassailable and unthinkably [...]
The Wifi Enabled, LCD Garbage Can
Does your garbage can tell you the weather, or whether the stock market is up or down? Mine doesn’t, but for the 2012 London Olympics, the city’s financial center is getting at least 200 Renew trash receptacles that will. Each can is also bombproof and offers wifi connectivity. Oh, and they go for $1,800 each. [...]
When you think of photo booths, you think of young lovers kissing under the harsh flash, or passport photos, or kids making silly faces, but what you don’t think is luxury. Harcourt, is a famous Parisian photographic studio. At Cannes, last year, they introduced their first luxury photo booth. For 10 euros the machine creates [...]
Niche Website? Just Copy the Old Facebook
Do you have an idea for a website like Facebook, but targeting a specific group of people? Maybe members of a professional group, or hobbyists like beekeepers, or cowboy action shooters. Don’t reinvent the wheel, copy Facebook. Not the Facebook of 2012, of course, but the Facebook that started it all, the Facebook of yesteryear. [...]
Today in Entrepreneurial History: February 7
On this day in 1935, the board game Monopoly was invented by Charles Darrow. Except that it wasn’t. No way is that humble verb, invented, the beginning of the story. At this link, you can read the full story of the history of the board game Monopoly before it was “invented.”
