People are getting rid of bookshelves. Treat the money you budgeted for shelving as found money. Go to garage sales and cruise the curbs. While you’re drafting that business plan, cut your projected profits in half. People are getting rid of bookshelves. If someone comes in and asks where to find the historical fiction, they’re […]
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Does your spouse love to watch 3D movies at the movie theater? Do they give you a headache? Hank Green loves 3D movies. Unfortunately, his wife does not. In fact, she’d get a headache each time they went. He didn’t want his wife to be in pain, but he also didn’t want to give up
In this post on the Priceonomics Blog, Ryan Finlay recounts his business: Craigslist scavenger. The scrap yard’s electromagnetic steel excavator picked up my two steel die cast molds and put them on the scale. 1,240 pounds of steel! That meant $179.80 in my wallet for an hour of work. Not bad considering I picked them
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A Connecticut woman has started a mobile hospice service for pets the The Stamford Times reports: For pet owners, saying goodbye is one of the hardest things to do, but Stamford resident Mary Craig says her new mobile veterinary hospice service makes saying farewell a bit easier. “I have heard from many pet owners that
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A children’s hospital in US has developed a new “pet therapy” under which a golden retriever dog visits patients in intensive care to cheer them up. The eight-year-old dog, Jake, visited the Le Bonheur Children’s hospital in Tennessee, and met a six-year-old patient Alex Gosa as a part of the hospital’s new Pet Therapy scheme.
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That filet mignon you ordered at the fancy steakhouse the other day? It wasn’t an expensive cut of meat. Terje took powder and dusted it liberally over the meat pieces. The coated stew meat then went into a circular tin to give it a nice, round filet mignon shape. He was also able to make
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The following is a guest post. Attending trade shows can significantly increase exposure for a company, no matter how large or small, but first you need to attract attention. If no one sees your exhibition, it is an exercise in futility. This is where the effective use of display and exhibition solutions by Display Wizard
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There’s a difference between someone who starts a business because they’ve found a profitable business idea, and business people who are absolutely driven, compelled even, to create the very best product possible. Have you seen the movie Jiro Dreams of Sushi? It is a documentary about sushi master Jiro Ono. His tiny, out of the
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It turns out that your Facebook feed is worth something after all. If you’re like most people, you share something at least once per day on Facebook. Have you also noticed that your newsfeed is growing increasingly full of sponsored content? Facebook is home to nearly 8% of all advertising sold on the internet. We
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