NY Post: A plan to put vending machines – selling energy drinks, snack bars, breath mints, gum and even pain relievers – inside yellow cabs won rave reviews yesterday at a city-sponsored contest for new business ideas. “New Yorkers demand convenience. They want to be as effective with their time as possible,” said Brian Shimmerlik, […]
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Bizopy: “Life can be much broader, much better, once you recognize one simple fact: life as you call it, was made up by people no smarter than you.” Watch this (likely never seen before) video here.
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Cassandra Daily: Journalist Melinda Wittstock, harnessing both crowdsourcing and gamification, hopes to create a flourishing source of citizen journalism with her new reporting platform NewsiT . Participants in Wittstock’s mobile, crowd-reporting experiment accept distinct tasks in order to contribute to evolving news items. They can opt to interview a source, capture an image, or check
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We small business owners have to plan our marketing tactics effectively. However, we also need to remain flexible to adapt to new trends, taking cues from customers and responding appropriately. Here are six marketing tactics that have become indispensable to the marketer’s toolkit.
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‎ Arizona Republic: In 2001, Lisa Liddy plunged into growing her book-publishing company, The Printed Page, to take up the slack that followed her husband’s loss of a job in the hospitality industry. Her business took off, as she and her husband, Joe, concentrated heavily on book design, layout and publishing. To counter stress resulting
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The Billfold: Short of some Die Hard with a Vengeance sort of scheme, bank robbers can only carry away so much money—whatever fits on their person, in their car, whatever. And because our currency inflates at a rate of about two percent per year, a bank robber’s haul decreases by that much in spending power
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Marketplace: If you want a glimpse into the future, check out the action in a drab warehouse in Billerica, Mass. That’s where a start-up called Harvest Automation is working out new robots that could wipe out an entire category of agricultural labor. Harvest sells small, battery-powered robots that move potted trees and shrubs around in
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Wash & Coffee is a new laundromat and social gathering place which opened earlier this year near Munich, Germany, reports PSFK.com. The new laundry and cafe has a clean design and provides lots of amenities for customers. Foremost though they are serious about making sure the process of cleaning clothes is handled well. Wash &
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Dan Strong owns a business called StripWalker, which sounds dirty but isn’t. Starting January 1, for three hours a day, Strong will be walking along the Las Vegas Strip, wearing company’s T-shirts all day, and Twittering and texting about his experiences, all to promote his advertisers, reports WalletPop. It seems like a solid marketing idea.
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After retiring from journalism, Lawrence Breer was looking for something to do and realized he had a pick-up truck that he could put to good use. So he started running ads in the local paper, offering his services to haul trash and junk from people’s garages, reports WalletPop. Breer says, “It turned into a bonanza.”
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