Yahoo News:
All Linda Katz had to do was step outside of her house to make thousands on the Internet. Now the Midwestern entrepreneur is building a business selling a piece of the old west online: tumbleweeds.
Linda started her online business, the Prairie Tumbleweed Farm, as a joke. It was 1994 and she wanted to teach […]
Posted by on 28 Nov 2007 at 7:22 am under Video
Wall Street Journal:
By far, the most common element among successful videos is comedy. Rather than offering airless advertisements or canned commercial messages, these videos deliver laughs as well as pitching a product.
Case in point: Blendtec, a division of K-TEC Inc., of Orem, Utah. In the past year, the high-end blender maker has drawn more than […]
A Business Opportunities Weblog reader has $1,000 to invest, and wants to invest in another reader’s holiday business:
I would like to partner with a seller and invest 1k in their venture for a hot holiday item. Please let me know if you have any leads. Thank you.
Do you have a hot holiday business that could […]
Posted by on 28 Nov 2007 at 5:28 am under Ideas
A reader named Mark wrote:
I don’t know how “green” minded you are, but every time I see the incandescent bulb used in a logo to to represent “new ideas”, I think, ‘I wish they would use the new Fluorescent screw in bulbs instead.’
Mark, interesting observation.
The lightbulb has long been the classic symbol of a […]
Morning Sentinel:
Chester Greenwood Day, Farmington Maine’s distinctive claim to fame, is not just for local earmuff aficionados.
The local display of ear coverings — from big and fluffy to comic to fashionable — can be inventive and quirky, and organizers say this year they hope to expand the Dec. 1 event.
“This is an invitation to people […]
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