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SchoolOfMusic.com recruits music teachers and then provides music lessons in students’ homes, teachers’ home studios, and after school programs. Their bizop is a must see!
SmallTownMarketing.com is giving away two marketing and advertising books for small town business owners.
To celebrate the release of his new memoir, 1000 Dollars and an Idea (review coming soon), American entrepreneur Sam Wyly is giving one winner a chance to kickstart an entrepreneurial dream. Entrants of this contest will have a chance of winning a grand prize of $1,000. The winner and twenty runners-up will also receive a signed copy of his new book, 1000 Dollars and an Idea.
You can fill out a form at the 1000 Dollars and an Idea web site.
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum.
Part 3 Select the Right Location
After securing the right vocation, you must be careful to select the proper location. You may have been cut out for a hotel keeper, and they say it requires a genius to “know how to keep a hotel.” You might conduct a hotel like clock-work, and provide satisfactorily for five hundred guests every day; yet, if you should locate your house in a small village where there is no railroad communication or public travel, the location would be your ruin. It is equally important that you do not commence business where there are already enough to meet all demands in the same occupation. I remember a case which illustrates this subject. When I was in London in 1858, I was passing down Holborn with an English friend and came to the “penny shows.” They had immense cartoons outside, portraying the wonderful curiosities to be seen “all for a penny.” Being a little in the “show line” myself, I said “let us go in here.” We soon found ourselves in the presence of the illustrious showman, and he proved to be the sharpest man in that line I had ever met. He told us some extraordinary stories in reference to his bearded ladies, his Albinos, and his Armadillos, which we could hardly believe, but thought it “better to believe it than look after the proof.” He finally begged to call our attention to some wax statuary, and showed us a lot of the dirtiest and filthiest wax figures imaginable. They looked as if they had not seen water since the Deluge.
“What is there so wonderful about your statuary?” I asked.
Continue reading The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money #3
What pushed Priscilla Maddox was the relentless smell of vanilla.
Maddox was toying with launching a cookie line after retiring from her 36-year hospital care job, but was overwhelmed by the vanilla smell in her apartment. When she couldn’t find a kitchen to rent, she started a rent-a-kitchen that has become a small-business incubator for everyone from a fudge maker to a twosome baking gourmet dog food.
“Now we call ourselves missionaries because we’re helping people following their dreams,” Maddox said.
Kitchen For Hire, the Brooklyn-based business she opened in 2000 with partner Joan Reid put Maddox’s cookie line dream on hold. The women set up in a cramped storefront that was previously home to a number of restaurants that never seemed able to stay in business. And for the past eight years, the 10-burner stove, refrigerators, freezers and mixers they inherited from the previous tenant are being put to good use.
Across the country, from Austin to Los Angeles to Chicago, renting commercial kitchens by the hour has become a cottage industry. And as the nation’s economy has begun to weaken, many newly-unemployed home cooks are looking to those kitchens for a new line of work.
The kitchen rental companies are a for-profit spin on an already well tested idea. Food-business incubators, many affiliated with universities and non-profits, help farmers and entrepreneurs with business development plans, market research and in some cases manufacturing.
For those that come to Kitchen For Hire, be prepared to get a big serving of advice before you’re allowed to turn on the oven. Maddox is not shy about telling potential customers that their business strategy isn’t right, labels aren’t catchy enough, or the food just isn’t marketable.
Photo by Harry Cabluck.
Social Networking sites can be much more than fun distractions and a way to keep track of your friends. Used correctly they can be very powerful List building tools.
Websites like Twitter, Stumbleupon, Hubpages, Squidoo and Facebook are excellent tools for networking with and marketing to others in your niche. They are also great ways to drive traffic to your websites. If you want to build a niche list they are an invaluable resource.
The Micro-blogging site Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to follow one another through posts of 140 characters or less. It is a great place for posting small bits of information and for directing people to blogs or squeeze pages.
Stumbleupon is a social bookmarking site that works from a tool bar downloaded to your browser. It allows users to discover and rate web pages and ultimately functions to give social validity to some sites over others. The more your site is liked the higher value it is given by search engines. Stumbleupon is also a great tool for finding others in your niche.
Social Networking sites are extremely valuable tools for building niche lists. You don’t want to send spam or blatant advertising through these sites, but you can drive prospects to your squeeze page or your website where you can give them an incentive to share their contact information with you through an opt-in box.
The goal with using any of these sites is to build up your list. If you can attract people in your niche market, drive them to your site and have them sign up for your mailings, suddenly you have a growing list of people who are interested in the products you are offering.
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Instant Tax Services has been going strong for over a decade. They decided in 2004 that they wanted to franchise to others striving to make it in the tax service business. Since then they have built over 200 franchisees throughout the countries.
CEO Fez Ogbazion states “When I opened my first tax business back in 1994, all I had was $20,000 available on credit cards and a strong desire to succeed. Today, I’m the CEO of one of the fastest growing tax franchising opportunities in the country. If you have the drive to succeed, we can help you build your own business – and drive your own success story.”
The franchise fee is $34,000, with an investment of up to $89,000. They provide training, ongoing support, and marketing support. If you have experience as a tax professional and want to be your own boss, this is the opportunity for you.
Their website is at instanttaxservice.com.
Julia Lambie created Flying Wish Paper as a new party activity because she loves the holidays, but got tired of doing the same thing year after year. How many white elephant gift exchanges can you do at Christmas? It’s time to bring something new to the party, and this is it.
Birthdays, holidays, weddings…anything from a prayer meeting to a bachelorette party, or even a private moment alone.
My family used Flying Wish Paper™ at Thanksgiving last year as we gathered around the table. Instead of a wish, we each wrote down something we were thankful for, lit our papers and watched as they all flew up into the sky together. It was absolutely beautiful. There wasn’t a dry eye at the table.
Flying Wish Paper™ is a Wishing KIT, including 50 sheets of Flying Wish Paper™, 25 Wish Platforms™, 5 small Wish Pencils, detailed instructions and matches.
Just write your wish on our special paper, shape it into a tube & light the top. Your wish burns down then dramatically rises into the sky. Write it, light it, watch it fly! It’s a brand new way to celebrate everything.
Photo by Hux Creative, LLC..
Unique scannable bar codes will start to show up in May 2009 on business- and first-class mail and packages. The codes should speed up processing of that mail and will allow businesses as well as post offices to track the movement and delivery of each piece sent.
Businesses can expect the bar codes to bring the same kinds of efficiencies in data mining and management found online to snail-mail billing and direct marketing.
The digital mail revolution, named “Intelligent Mail” by the USPS, will help companies zero in on their best sales prospects by much more quickly gauging response rates to mail offers and tweaking pitches if they flub.
It’ll be a huge improvement over today’s system of not knowing for weeks whether an ad or promotion was a hit or a dud. “By knowing exactly when a piece of mail has arrived, a company can use e-mail to follow up with the customer and make another offer,” says Jerry Cerasale, a senior vice president with the Direct Marketing Association — assuming the person hasn’t opted out of receiving e-mail from that company.
Intelligent Mail will deliver benefits on the businesses operations side, too. Customers won’t be able to brush off collections calls by saying “the check is in the mail” because companies can verify that instantly. Analysis of mail and bill paying patterns can save businesses big legal bills, as well.
One company that participated in a test of Intelligent Mail reported saving $1 million by using digital mail feedback to determine when it shouldn’t send past due bills to the collections department.
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I find that the overall structure of a vendor’s website has a lot to do with whether I buy the product or not.
Chances are, you’ve bought something online yourself. Have you ever noticed how a simple flaw in a website prevents you from buying? For example, bad navigation won’t help you get to the information you need.
Or an amateurish-looking design makes you think twice before putting your trust in the vendor. As an entrepreneur yourself, it’s entirely possible that you also make these mistakes - and it’s best to nip them in the bud.
• Make sure that your design isn’t cluttered.
• Your website design should include an “about” page, a contact page, as well as an FAQ.
• All your links should be easily understood.
• Make sure everything is at most a couple of clicks away.
• Check if most browsers support your site design.
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You’re already on MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter but a Perth entrepreneur hopes Australians have time for just one more web tool. Ian Rodwell founded Loop Mobile four years ago and for the past three years his mobile phone community site, Moko, has competed for attention with the likes of Facebook and MySpace.
The site is now expanding globally but Rodwell, 46, bristles at the suggestion that his creation is just another social network. He says that, while social networks are designed to help us keep in touch with our existing friends, Moko is all about making new connections.
Rather than being built for the desktop PC and then ported to web, it was made from the ground up to work predominantly on the mobile phone.Users post photos and videos to the site and chat rooms form around these contributions. There is also a chat lounge with various themed rooms including one running “quiz nights” and a “brain academy” where users can have “intelligent conversations”.
Moko can be accessed via the mobile portals of 3, Optus, Virgin and Telstra or by typing in the web address http://www.moko.mobi on either the phone’s browser or a regular PC. It costs $4 a month to use and, while talking to other users in chat rooms is free, sending a direct private message to another user costs 50 cents. Users also have to pay the standard MMS rate for uploading photos and videos from their mobiles.
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WHILE trying to teach her young children good habits, one former Hawkesdale woman has
found a niche market that could bring her international business success. Knowing the benefits of having a good skincare routine, mother-of-four Kate Marshall decided to pass her wisdom on to her daughters but couldn’t find any suitable products for their sensitive young skin.
Before embarking on her nursing career, Mrs Marshall had some experience in the cosmetic industry and drew on this knowledge in launching her own brand of organic skin care for children. After two years of testing the products on her children Victoria, 11, Alexandra, 8, Isabella, 3, and even William, 6, Mrs Marshall launched her company Essential Angel from her home in March this year.
“Logistically it was hard for me to get out of the house so starting an internet business was the best way to stay with my kids and work,” she said. “We’ve had phenomenal success so far with big interest in Asia and Japan, which is very exciting”
Though her working days start at 8pm once her children go to bed, Mrs Marshall said running her own business was very rewarding.
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If you don’t enjoy the product, how well do you think you’ll do when you try to sell it? When you’re not sure about something you hope to sell, your potential customer will most likely going to pick up on that in your presentation.
Angie Aller, a distributor for LifeMax could tell you that. She has not been selling their product long, but using the product has improved her life. When someone comes to her and wants to know why they should buy it, she will have her own personal success story to share with them. In an exclusive interview, we have asked Angie more about LifeMax as well as learn more about her own experience with them.
For those in Miami Beach, Florida, she will also be available at the conference on October 5th from 12pm to 3pm, where Kevin Wear will also be speaking. Details can be found on her webpage.
What is LifeMax and what does the company offer? What is The LifeMax Signature Grainä?
The Signature Grain™ is considered a whole food by the FDA with no restrictions. It is the only delivery source of Omega 3’s with a recommended daily allowance (RDA). This is, without question, the healthiest and most nutritional natural food source on the planet.
The company offers a unique compensation plan both lateral and binary.
When is LifeMax due to officially launch?
October 10th and 11th of 2008.
Continue reading LifeMax Distributor Shares Her Success Story
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum.
Part 2 Don’t Mistake Your Vocation
The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes. Parents and guardians are often quite too negligent in regard to this. It is very common for a father to say, for example: “I have five boys. I will make Billy a clergyman; John a lawyer; Tom a doctor, and Dick a farmer.” He then goes into town and looks about to see what he will do with Sammy. He returns home and says “Sammy, I see watch-making is a nice, genteel business; I think I will make you a goldsmith.” He does this, regardless of Sam’s natural inclinations, or genius.
We are all, no doubt, born for a wise purpose. There is as much diversity in our brains as in our countenances. Some are born natural mechanics, while some have great aversion to machinery. Let a dozen boys of ten years get together, and you will soon observe two or three are “whittling” out some ingenious device; working with locks or complicated machinery. When they were but five years old, their father could find no toy to please them like a puzzle. They are natural mechanics; but the other eight or nine boys have different aptitudes. I belong to the latter class; I never had the slightest love for mechanism; on the contrary, I have a sort of abhorrence for complicated machinery. I never had ingenuity enough to whittle a cider tap so it would not leak. I never could make a pen that I could write with, or understand the principle of a steam engine. If a man was to take such a boy as I was, and attempt to make a watchmaker of him, the boy might, after an apprenticeship of five or seven years, be able to take apart and put together a watch; but all through life he would be working up hill and seizing every excuse for leaving his work and idling away his time. Watchmaking is repulsive to him.
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation. Yet we see many who have mistaken their calling, from the blacksmith up (or down) to the clergyman. You will see, for instance, that extraordinary linguist the “learned blacksmith,” who ought to have been a teacher of languages; and you may have seen lawyers, doctors and clergymen who were better fitted by nature for the anvil or the lapstone.
This is from best-selling E-Myth author Michael Gerber’s Dreaming Room workshop at the Inc. 5000 conference.
Here’s what’s stupid, Gerber says. “You say you want to be your own boss. But why do you want to work for a stupid boss? You have to transform the world with your business.”
Write this down, he says: “I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a purpose, I have a mission.” The dream is the outcome or result. The vision is the method. The purpose is the great “who” - you’re doing this for someone, to transform their life. The mission is the how, the tactical mission.
Some other Gerber nuggets:
- What a successful company does is turn a commodity into a product (Starbucks, FedEx, McDonald’s)
- How do you make your company the coin of the realm (FedEx it; I need a Starbucks)?
- It’s not about brilliant ideas, it’s about looking at obvious things a little differently.
- Most small businesses are already out of business and they don’t even know it.
Photo by Michael Gerber.
Products may come and go, but company names can last forever. When starting a new company, take the time to choose a name that distinguishes your business from the competition. Otherwise, even with the best idea or invention, your customers may have a difficult time finding you and your product in an increasingly crowded marketplace.
All entrepreneurs face a classic marketing dilemma: They want a company name that tells consumers exactly what they sell, but descriptively naming a new venue the Country Music Hall, Blues Center or Music Palace creates confusion with other similarly named businesses.
Indeed, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office won’t even register a name that is merely descriptive unless it has acquired a reputation. The standard used by the USPTO in determining whether a name is descriptive is whether it describes an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose or use of the product. Keep this simple test in mind when choosing a new company name.
Successful company names are suggestive rather than descriptive. When applied to the product, they require imagination, thought or perception to determine the nature of the goods. A hypothetical example of a suggestive company name is the Sunshine Orange Juice Co. Sunshine suggests the nature of the orange juice that the company sells, without immediately describing it.
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On September 15th we interviewed Michelle Warford, the founder of UBrand and she is currently offering 5 of our readers a chance to win a set of her monogramming labels! If you are interested in entering for a chance to win these great labels for your own luggage, laptop bags or even for a backpack, now is the time to enter! After 11:59pm tomorrow night, it’ll be too late.
For more information please visit the original post. All giveaway rules apply. Only qualifying entries will be counted.
A new invention could revolutionize solar energy – and it was made by a 12-year-old in Beaverton.
Despite his age, William Yuan has already studied nuclear fusion and nanotechnology, and he is on his way to solving the energy crisis.
It all started with Legos - after he learned nanotechnology to make robots take off. The seventh grader then got an idea inspired by the sun. “Solar it seems underused, and there are only a few problems with it,” Yuan said.
Encouraged by his Meadow Park Middle School science teacher, the 12-year-old developed a 3D solar cell. “Regular solar cells are only 2D and only allow light interaction once,” he said. And his cell can absorb both visible and UV light.
“I started to realize I was actually onto something,” Yuan said.
At first, he couldn’t believe his calculations. “This solar cell can’t be generating this much electricity, it can’t be absorbing this much extra light,” he recalled thinking.
If he is right, solar panels with his 3D cells would provide 500 times more light absorption than commercially-available solar cells and nine times more than cutting-edge 3D solar cells.
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Some fringe benefits–such as paid parking, retirement accounts or paid vacation–are considered standard in today’s work environment.
And there are others, like the availability of the company jet, that seem like they only belong in the movies. When you want to offer extra incentives or benefits to your employees, consider the following:
1. Gym memberships
2. Flexible hours
3. Continuing education
4. Shopping clubs
5. A stocked breakroom
6. Tickets to local sporting events
7. Time to volunteer
8. Financial management assistancePhoto by ctr.
Arnisha Keyes admits she’s no Rachael Ray. Until recently, she spent $30 a day to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at restaurants.
But the high price of gas has her testing her cooking skills to save money, packing lunch for work and experimenting with dinner salads by microwaving frozen vegetables, mixing them with spinach and pouring ranch dressing on top.
“I’ve been going to the grocery store a little bit more frequently,” Keyes says, laughing sheepishly at her previous lifestyle. “It saves you a lot more money if you just buckle down and focus on eating at home.”
Keyes’ cooking ventures aren’t unusual — they’re part of a national trend to eat at home to save money, according to market research firms. But after years of eating out, many people have found they don’t have a pot to cook in or a cookbook to guide them.
The sudden rush to buy basic cooking necessities has driven up sales of cookbooks, inexpensive cookware and the basic foods needed to concoct a meal. And cooking magazines and websites are booming even as magazine sales overall have suffered.
Cookware sales overall have declined in the past year, but items selling for less than $100 are doing “remarkably well,” said Florence Sheffer, spokeswoman for the cookware distributor Meyer Corp. in Vallejo, Calif. Cast-iron cookware in that price category, for instance, has recorded a 19% sales increase over a year ago, the most popular being those with celebrity chef name tags.
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You want a home-based business, why not one that will decorate your home too? Whether your friends ask you to help them spice up their home, or it just happens to be something you enjoy, following your passion when you start a business is very important.
AtHome America is a growing direct sales business which offers a variety of products and items to help dress up any home. If you want to buy one of their products, you’ll have to go through one of their HomeStyle Specialists, like Rebecca Bell. She’s been a specialist with this company for 3 years now, and she is just one of many success stories which helps prove that you get back what you put into your business.
What is AtHome America and what are the products that this business sells?
AtHome America is a direct sales company specializing in home décor products. These beautiful, useful and affordable products make great accents for your home and fantastic gifts. We have almost 600 products, of which more than half are priced at $25 or less. AtHome America is celebrating its 25th anniversary this Fall, so they have a great deal of experience but they also have their eye on today’s decorating trends.
How long have you been a HomeStyle Specialist? What made you choose this business opportunity over the many others available?
I have been a HomeStyle Specialist for 3 years. I was attracted first to the products, which reflected my decorating style and were priced attractively. Then I was drawn to the company’s mission statement, which reflects a commitment to “God first, then family, followed by AtHome America”. I liked that they knew where my priorities lay and I wasn’t going to be asked to put my business ahead of my faith and family. That has proved to be very true over the past 3 years.
Some business ideas can be awfully macabre, especially around Halloween, but none are as dark as Paul Kneale’s Last Meals Delivery Service.
For $20, the standard amount typically allocated for the meal, you too can enjoy the same last meal consumed by some of the most notorious criminals before they were executed.
Via my wife, who doesn’t normally have such a dark business sense.
The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum. Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman remembered for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Part 1 is below. The twenty other parts will be published daily.
Part 1
In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. In this comparatively new field there are so many avenues of success open, so many vocations which are not crowded, that any person of either sex who is willing, at least for the time being, to engage in any respectable occupation that offers, may find lucrative employment.
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done. But however easy it may be found to make money, I have no doubt many of my hearers will agree it is the most difficult thing in the world to keep it. The road to wealth is, as Dr. Franklin truly says, “as plain as the road to the mill.” It consists simply in expending less than we earn; that seems to be a very simple problem. Mr. Micawber, one of those happy creations of the genial Dickens, puts the case in a strong light when he says that to have an income of twenty pounds per annum, and spend twenty pounds and sixpence, is to be the most miserable of men; whereas, to have an income of only twenty pounds, and spend but nineteen pounds and sixpence is to be the happiest of mortals. Many of my readers may say, “we understand this; this is economy, and we know economy is wealth; we know we can’t eat our cake and keep it also.” Yet I beg to say that perhaps more cases of failure arise from mistakes on this point than almost any other. The fact is, many people think they understand economy when they really do not.
Continue reading The Art of Money Getting, or Golden Rules for Making Money #1
Free service PrintWhatYouLike.com is a simple point-and-click element removal tool to make printing sites and pages without printer-friendly links much easier, and without any software.
Paste in the URL of a site, and you’ll get a left-hand sidebar that lets you click and and remove pictures, headlines, and other page elements. You can pull out the background image, isolate selected parts of the page, and even resize individual elements, all in the name of reducing ink usage and improving readability.
Better still, you can copy a link to the page you’ve just hacked to bits, giving web site owners with popular pages a free resource for printer-friendly versions.
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In the past 12-18 months, niche video networks or micro video networks as some call them, such as For Your Imagination and Next New Networks have ramped up their offerings for small content producers trying to gain their business.
At the same time, video platforms like Babelgum and Brightcove are also competing for these same content owners and the differences between a network and a platform continue to confuse people.
These types of aggregators and networks offer content creators a promising new vehicle for syndicating and monetizing content that would be hard to do on their own, but many of those content owners keep asking what exactly the niche video networks offer and how the business relationship works?
The first question I am always asked is- are these networks looking to license content, or are they primarily interested in acquiring and owning content? From those I spoke with, the consensus was that most networks look for a non-exclusive licensing type agreement that is based upon an advertising rev share, which is what most of the video sharing networks offer today.
Some destination type sites may ask for an exclusive license for a fee upfront with no rev share, but those are less common. Another model might be the opportunity for a content owner to produce exclusive new content for a destination type site which works as a work for hire type of relationship.
Of course, content owners also want to know how is ad revenue generated and shared with content owners?
Generally, rev share is some kind of a split of net revenues, maybe as much as 50/50 for on network and some three way split if it is on a publisher network. Net revenue is calculated by taking gross revenue minus any network costs for your content and the ad campaign, such as operations, management and hosting. Those costs usually amount to about 25% of the gross, with the remaining balance split with the content creator.
While it sounds easy enough, the problem is that there is no “average” split of net revenues. The only true way for a content owner to know how much their split would be is to get an actual quote from the network.
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Once a month in southeastern Wisconsin, three groups of inventors meet with people who want to help them.
At their core is a Milwaukee-area woman aiming to help change a culture.
Her name is Jill Welytok, a patent lawyer who grew up in Skokie, Ill., watching her dad invent the motion-sensitive fish that wiggles on a plaque.
Welytok’s dad never patented the wiggling fish, but he got enough response from ads in the back of magazines for his fish and other practical jokes and novelty items to make a decent living, she said.
Now Welytok, 49, is throwing herself into helping others do that and more.
“If you have a good product that you can produce, or that someone else can produce within the appropriate margins, you have access to a worldwide network for promoting it,” Welytok said.
Welytok is pounding on that message with what she says are more than 100 clients of the Milwaukee law firm she started in 2005, Absolute Technology Law Group LLC. She’s also hammering out her message at monthly meetings of three inventors and entrepreneurs clubs that meet in Mequon, West Bend and downtown Milwaukee.
Welytok says she takes just one of every five people who walk into her office as a patent client.
The clubs are a different story. They’re open to the public, and Welytok said she works hard to make them more than networking events by providing substantive and relevant information.
On average, 30 to 40 people attend each meeting, where experts discuss topics such as how to approach corporations with an invention, what kind of designs consumers are most apt to buy and ideas for funding their projects, she said.
Photo by Tom Lynn.
The Buckminster Fuller Institute announces the call for entries to the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge.
The world financial system is in chaos; vital ecosystems are under stress; climate change and its consequences are daily news; and the bare essentials of human life - food, water, and shelter - remain out of reach for billions of people.
Challenges of this magnitude require bold, visionary strategies; they require what Buckminster Fuller called “a design revolution.” Great stand-alone solutions - pieces of a larger puzzle - are out there, but it will take more than an innovative gadget or isolated technological breakthrough to tackle the problems of a complex and interconnected world.
An annual $100,000 prize program to support the development and implementation of a solution that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.
The deadline for entries is midnight (Eastern time) on November 7th, 2008. To enter go here.
Photo by Buckminster Fuller Institute.
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