How easy is it for someone to find your home? Is your house number easily visible from the road so people know what driveway belongs to you? Many homes don’t have their number visible for people to easily find and that can cause problems. If you were to call 911, and your home isn’t marked with the house number to be found with little effort, that help you called for might not make it in time. It’s an unfortunate reality and it opens up a whole niche that can help bring in customers to the right business.
Classic Address is one of those businesses which caters to that specific market. From this website, people interested in starting their own business can also do so. After contacting David Prince for the appropriate name and password, he opens up a world of information to potential entrepreneurs with […]
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Posted by on 19 Aug 2008 at 2:59 pm under Giveaway
On the 4th we posted an interview with Sheena about Passion Parties and she has offered up to 10 goodie bags to be given away to our readers. That giveaway ends tonight! If you were interested in entering for your chance to win, do so now. The giveaway will be ending at 11:59pm tonight. As a reminder, these are the things that will be included in the goodie bags:
Naughty IOU’s
Passion Powder
Edible Strawberry Lubricant
A Fun Temporary Tattoo
A Sample of Pure Satisfaction
Visit the original post for more information on how to enter.
All giveaway rules apply. Only qualifying entries will be counted.
Original post by Angela and software by Elliott Back
Diabetes is a problem that many people have to face every day. That also includes the needles and medicines that are needed daily.
When Catherine (KK) Patton was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes during her pregnancy, she had to face a situation that may have looked bleak at the time but would eventually inspire her to create a product and start a business that would open up a whole new option for diabetics everywhere. This option would remove the need to insert a needle multiple times a day without having to carry around an insulin pump. This product would become the i-port.
Much like the pump, someone only has to poke themselves with a needle once every 3 days to attach the i-port. That will insert the tiny catheter of the i-port into their body, but unlike the pump this option is no where near as bulky. […]
Original post by Angela and software by Elliott Back
Canwest News Service:
Last spring, in a new spin on the office suggestion box, Starbucks launched the Web site mystarbucksidea.com, an interactive user forum for discussion about the chain’s goods and services, including a prompt for ideas and feedback from its customers.
Mystarbucksidea.com, one of a new generation of so-called social media sites employed by market-hungry firms, represents outsourcing at its cheekiest, a voluntary repository of brainstorming that cleverly cuts out the middle man and fosters the feel-good theory that the customer knows best, and thus is happy to suggest product improvement and innovation, free for the asking.
Suggestions have included coffee ice cubes, flavoured foam, a punch card system, dark chocolate mocha, complimentary Wi-Fi, birthday brew (a free drink on your birthday), condiment centres, automated ordering and coffee education classes.
And the Splash Stick.
This little gadget, an idea posted on the Web site and introduced to outlets last May, is a green plastic […]
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12 News:
Perfecting the commode, an unusual invention. A Florida inventor made a new toilet designed to take that stench out of the “John.”
“I decided to go wash up, walked into a bathroom and somebody literally annihilated the bathroom.” That’s how Robert Smith from Tampa decided he’d invent the VIP odorless toilet.
Here’s how it works.
Before going to the bathroom, you lift up, on the handle that activates a small fan. The fan begins to suck the stink directly into the sewer line through several holes in the bowl. The fan shuts off when the user flushes.
The VIP Odorless Toilet just hit the market, so right now, you can only buy it from the inventor.
Photo by 12 News.
Original post by Rich and software by Elliott Back
BusinessWeek:
The Internet is littered with offers for home-based business opportunities that promise big profits for easy work.
But many of these offers, which range from envelope stuffing to medical billing, are really scams that prey on people’s aspirations to work for themselves.
Business opportunities share three characteristics: a solicitation to the buyer, a mandatory payment to the seller, and a promise to help the buyer find locations or leads that will bring profits.
The 10 Most Common Home-Business Scams
1. ATM Machines
2. Envelope Stuffing
3. Home-Based Product Assembly
4. Internet Kiosks
5. Internet Storefronts
6. Medical Billing
7. Multi-Level Marketing
8. Pay Phones
9. Rack Displays
10. Vending Machines
Photo by BusinessWeek.
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BusinessWeek:
Do you really need to spend upwards of $80,000 in tuition and take two years off to become senior management material?
The supporters of an alternative method, the Personal MBA (PMBA), say no, and it’s an idea that’s developing some traction.
According to the advocates of the Personal MBA, all you have to do to measure up to the pricey MBAs turned out by B-schools is to keep gaining work experience, read a series of books at your leisure, and talk about them with an online community. The organized B-school community, of course, maintains it’s not so simple.
The PMBA, essentially an online list of reading material and accompanying message boards, is part book club and part online community, where participants tackle the reading list one book at a time, then exchange thoughts and insights on the Web site personalmba.com.
There is no diploma, dean, faculty — or cost, other than whatever […]
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The Commercial Appeal:
Sonny Reese admits that despite his Southern upbringing, he is not interested in barbecue — not for his business anyway.
The owner of Sonny Salt, Reese’s own brand of seasoning salt, believes his product fills a creative niche in an oversized market.
“We don’t want to be a barbecue seasoning, we want to be a seasoning salt,” said Reese, 62, of Memphis, recalling how business associates encouraged him to get into barbecue when he first decided to market Sonny Salt.
“Most barbecue seasoning has sugar in it and MSG or other products like that, and that makes it bad for you.”
Sonny Salt is a combination of sea salt, onion, garlic, red pepper, cumin, mustard, thyme, sage, black pepper, white pepper, paprika and, Reese says, “a pinch of Sonny.”
He created Sonny Salt to complement any food that uses regular salt and pepper and recommends it for foods such as asparagus, potatoes, salads, […]
Original post by Rich and software by Elliott Back
Posted by on 18 Aug 2008 at 11:57 pm under Internet
KYPost:
Like to shop, but can’t get to the stores until after hours? Love the mall, but can’t stand the traffic?
Louisville Web entrepreneur Mark Stein says he has a solution: Let your digital persona do the walking in a 3-D virtual mall.
Stein, a longtime professional mediator in Louisville, found online success in 2002 when he launched OurDivorceAgreement.com, a do-it-yourself system for working through the complex issues of breaking up. Today that site has customers throughout North America, Australia and Great Britain, he said.
Now he hopes to strike gold with VirtualEShopping.com, which takes users into a three-dimensional environment like those they might see in games such as World of Warcraft or Half-Life. But in Stein’s online world, participants hunt for bargains, not monsters, as they meet, mingle and chat with other virtual shoppers.
The digital mall will be a place “they’ll be familiar with and comfortable with.” There are already dozens of active […]
Original post by Nicholas and software by Elliott Back
If you’ve ever wished for the chance to write for a living, maybe even create your own magazine, then you might find some interest in OurTown.com and their local editor opportunity. Although they are still currently in Beta, it won’t be much longer before they get out of that stage and start advertising globally.
OurTown.com is a network of Local Editors which publish their local news to their own page. It is news related to you and your community, and it’s written in your view. As an editor you will have a license to your own ourtown site which you should treat as a business. You’ll be able to sell advertising to local businesses in your area and offer quality content that will motivate people to come back for more.
The control is in your hands for how you handle your page. From the feel of it […]
Original post by Angela and software by Elliott Back
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