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According to Inc.com, saying thank you for a job well done can pay huge dividends. A survey by the International Association of Administrative Professionals and OfficeTeam found that, while managers ranked promotions and cash bonuses as the two most effective ways of recognizing employee accomplishments, workers said they actually preferred an in-person thank-you or having [...]
Inventors Rush To Stop Oil Gush
BP’s busted pipe continues to gush crude into the Gulf of Mexico. The resulting slick is now poisoning shores. Brace yourself for goo-covered pelicans, belly-up alligators, wasteland that was marshland. According to Inventors Digest, inventors from across the country have inundated BP, the U.S. government and, yes, Inventors Digest, with ideas on how to stop [...]
Scammer ingenuity knows no bounds. In 2010, as in years past, more criminals are taking the trouble to craft schemes, fudge websites, and get rich off the tight economy and the consumer desperation that goes along with it. WalletPop presents a list of the top ten scams to look out for. “Free trial” scams Deceptive [...]
Traveling The World On The Web
Ever wish for some way to tell the world about how great your favorite travel spots are and make a little money? Colin Campbell and Gordon Burns is helping people make it happen. When most people believe you have to sell tickets or offer travel plans to make money in this industry, Colin and Gordon [...]
Terror attacks, civil unrest, dirty bombs, earthquakes, 2012. Cue the entrepreneurs. Come-ons for doomsday products, from survival classes to earthquake kits, abound on the Internet. Demand is fueled by natural disasters, terrorist activity and websites dedicated to exploring such topics as what will happen Dec. 21, 2012, the last day of the ancient Maya calendar [...]
A new generation of taco trucks no longer caters to hungry workers at construction sites. Instead, these food-laden vehicles bring gourmet food to customers as their owners roll out this mobile concept rather than set up a storefront and wait for clients to come to them, reports The Houston Business Journal. Julia Sharaby, chef and [...]
The Amish are Great Entrepreneurs
CNN Money: Want to find America’s most successful entrepreneurs? Skip Silicon Valley and Manhattan; head to the rural Amish enclaves. Amish businesses have an eye-popping 95% success rate at staying open at least five years, according to author Erik Wesner’s new book, Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive. It’s a [...]
Unique products to inspire and amuse. Zombie Blood. When Gatorade just isn’t enuff. Shark Sleeping Bag. But I keep having this dream about being eaten by my sleeping bag. Rock Guitar Shirt. I’m gonna rip it off at the end of Freebird. Bacon Flavored Envelopes. Call my cardiologist, I can’t get enuff bacon. Photos by [...]
Biz In A Boxx: For Your Budding Entrepreneur
If your kid looks at lemonade stands and card trading as opportunities to rake in the dough instead of an afternoon diversion, WalletPop suggests you check out Biz in a Boxx. This is one game you can give your budding entrepreneur that could potentially have excellent ROI (return on investment.) The Biz in a Boxx [...]
Rube Goldberg: Inventor and Cartoonist
Rube Goldberg was a brilliant cartoonist and inventor. He is best known for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways – now known as Rube Goldberg machines, reports Puggal. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime including a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning [...]
New Invention: Wearable Hummingbird Feeder
Do you love watching birds? Put down your binoculars. A new invention will lure birds right to your nose: It’s a hummingbird feeder that you can wear. It’s called :–2< :, and pronounced “eye 2 eye.”. Here’s a video of it in action:
Dropbox: Free Online Backup, Now Even Better
I recently wrote about my love of Dropbox, and today, I’m excited to report that Dropbox has announced something that makes their free service even better. In a nutshell, Dropbox is a free backup software that allows me to easily and securely backup the most important files on my computer to an external disk somewhere [...]
The billboard systems provide a new unique outdoor advertising format to reach audiences in any coastal location or waterfront event. “It’s the only product of its size and kind that works. It’s never missed since you have no visual competition out on the water” says Peter Fleck of Sliders Inc. Mitsubishi, McDonald’s, Disney, and Red [...]
In this excerpt from the book Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession, Dave Jamieson explains how baseball cards first became seen as promising investments, setting the stage for a decade of speculation and overproduction: Around the mid-1970s, a small cabal of serious baseball card collectors grew wise to the fact that their [...]
Dropbox: Backup Online for Free
I’ve recently discovered Dropbox and I love it. For free, Dropbox allows me to easily backup my most important files and access my home computer files from anywhere. Dropbox acts like an external disk drive only it lives somewhere else on the internet — and won’t be destroyed if my house catches on fire. Install [...]
Stress Relieving Vending Machine
The “Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine” is a machine that allows you break a dish or two until you feel better. All you have to do is insert a dollar, and a piece of china will slowly move towards you until it falls to the bottom and breaks into a million pieces. Want to do [...]
Are you a florist? Do you need a product to differentiate you from all of the other flower shops in your community? Have you heard about rainbow roses? Rainbow roses, the brainchild of Dutch flower shop owner Peter Van de Werken, are colorful roses that are made by injecting die into the stem of the [...]
Where’d Your Business Idea Come From?
Here’s a question for you: Where did your business idea come from? What was the spark of inspiration that sent you on your way?
Printing Your Own Shirt Business
Not many people realize it but sometimes starting your own business is as easy as designing, printing and selling a few t-shirts. A few weeks back we mentioned AnaJet. If you don’t remember, the AnaJet SPRINT is a digital garment printer. All you have to do is create a design, place your blank shirt in [...]
Local Food Delivery: Dine-in Delivery
Dine-in Delivery is a meal delivery service business opportunity. They deliver food from restaurants that don’t have their own delivery service. The delivery business is a big business. Dominos, who only delivers pizza did $5.1 billion in 2007. Dine-in Delivery can deliver food from from every imaginable type of restaurant. Local Dine-in Delivery operations sign [...]
Starting from Scrap: My Favorite Business Book of 2010 (So Far)
If you enjoy the kinds of businesses we profile here on Business Opportunities Weblog, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that you’ll enjoy the book Starting from Scrap by Stephen Greer. In 1993 at the age of 24, American Stephen Greer gave up his steady back office job in Germany and moved to [...]
Last Chance for My Free Twitter Ebook
Have you picked up a copy of my free ebook How I Create Traffic and Revenue from Twitter? If not, you should immediately go download a copy, because on March 2nd it won’t be free anymore. The price will be going up to seven dollars at noon on Tuesday, March 2nd. Here’s that link again: [...]
How To Dominate Niche Markets with Software as a Service
If you’ve got an idea for a hot new niche service, or a new way to improve an existing online service, don’t bother starting from scratch.
How Anyone Can Make A Fortune Online
Can you make a dollar a day online? Sure. Just do it again. Over and over again.
My Free eBook: How I Create Traffic and Revenue from Twitter
My first free ebook of 2010 is live. It’s entitled How I Create Traffic and Revenue from Twitter. Download it now.
ABC’s hit television series Lost has returned for its sixth and final season. This is the last season of Lost and a perfect time to profit from their enormous fan base.
We’re adding a new weekly video to the web site today. It’s called the Biz Op Minute and it will cover stories about new businesses, entrepreneurs and inventors. Give us your comments, suggestions and story ideas in the comments section.
Shark Tank Episode 14: A Recap
Episode 14 of the Shark Tank featured for different entrepreneurs, each competing for the Sharks’ money. Brenden Sherratt has recapped it for us.
Starting a Customized Glass Etching Business
Starting a glass etching business can be a fun, exciting, and profitable niche business idea. There are a variety of things that you can etch to maximize your number of customers.
Can You Make $5000/Month Selling Used Books on Amazon?
Selling used books is something that I have perfected over the few years that I have been doing it. It is an extremely easy, low risk, no capital required way to bring $5000 per month.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry…
The tour organizer received assurances, he says, from four gangs that they would not harass the bus when it passed through their turf. Paying customers must sign releases warning of potential danger.
Used Cell Phone Franchise: Cell Again
Their franchise system focuses on low-risk, kiosk locations where customers not only purchase phones and accessories, but can also sell their old cell phones. They have five current locations with four in Utah and one in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Pet Urns Keep Beloved Pets Nearby After They’re Gone
It’s hard to lose a friend… even if that friend had fur and walked on four legs. Pet urns are big business.
Love Handles For Your Motorcycle
Thanks to the inventive mind of a motorcycle-loving couple, Bill and Mary Freer, you can now hold onto a pair of love handles that are not attached to the driver.
The Christmas Decorating Business
Tammie does people’s Christmas decorating for them, because they no longer want to do it themselves. She charges by the hour. It’s not that she needs the money. It’s that Christmas needs her.
How to Make Money on Twitter with Ad.ly
Ad.ly, is a brand new Twitter advertising network that can make you money, even if you don’t have thousands of followers.
Business Opportunities Weblog’s 8th Birthday
Dane Carlson and the Business Opportunities Weblog celebrates eight years of blogging about quality opportunities and business ideas.
Mail That Caters To Kids With A Side Of Education
Sher-Lee’s kids were intrigued by the idea of receiving mail but, unfortunately, they almost never received any. Inspired by their interest, Sherri-Lee formulated a business that would deliver postcards to those kids who loved to receive mail.
35 Minute Video: How To Make Facebook Make You Money
Facebook Fan Pages are changing marketing for the better. Watch this video and find out how.
Used Books: A Great Business Opportunity
Used books don’t go away once they’ve been read once. They stick around for a long, long time and can make you lots of money.
Woman Starts Own Garbage Company
Leslie Eisen was tired of taking her trash out to the street. After calling the local refuse company and finding out that no matter how much she offered, they wouldn’t provide the service, she started her own company to do it.
Clean Air Lawn Care is a sustainable lawn care service that uses clean electric lawn equipment powered through renewable energy.
Could You Sell Unassembled Snowmen?
Sometimes finding a business to start requires that you turn conventional wisdom on it’s head.
John Nese is the proprietor of Galcos Soda Pop Stop in LA. His father ran it as a grocery store, and when the time came for John to take charge, he decided to convert it into the ultimate soda-lovers destination.
Your Pro Kitchen offers a professionally-equipped, commercially licensed multi-station kitchen facility for professional cooking and baking. In addition, they are flexible enough to support many different uses, such as cooking classes, private events, and the production or bottling of your products.
Jet Blue just announced “all you can jet” travel. Think about this kind of pricing for your business. Is there a way that you could get people to prepay for the ability to use your service an unlimited amount?
99 Ways To Make Money Using Twitter
The challenge in writing and researching a Twitter business book is to look at all the strategies, methods, and ways of making money on Twitter, and to bring them together into a book that is current, yet filled with case studies that will not go out of date.
Tribute to Billy Mays: “Hi, Billy Mays Here”
In June, Billy Mays the television direct-response advertisement salesperson well known for his introduction, “Hi, Billy Mays here,” died from an apparent heart attack. Here’s a video tribute to him that includes his famous line and the openings of 30 of his TV commercials.
Does the idea of camel milk appeal to you? In some countries, camel milk is called “liquid gold” for its healing and nutritional qualities. Camel’s milk has three times as much vitamin C as cow’s milk and contains high amounts of iron, unsaturated fatty acids and B vitamins.
