Work at Home Business Ideas

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 […]

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 […]

Houston Chronicle:
Pick a flavor — Rain, Frost, Lemon-Lime, Fierce, AM, Xtremo — and drink a toast today to Dr. Robert Cade, inventor of the concoction once nicknamed “Cade’s Cola” and now known as Gatorade.
Cade died Tuesday in Jacksonville, Fla., from kidney failure. He was 80.
Cade and three colleagues developed Gatorade in 1965 to help the […]

The New York Times:
As work is increasingly making inroads into leisure time, many business travelers are finding ways to turn that equation around — combining their travel for work with time for cultural and historical sightseeing.
“Cultural tourism can be an extension of business, it’s not just fluff,” said Patricia Martin, a marketing consultant and author […]

Marketing Daily:
An entrepreneur in Phoenix is looking to combine the growing craze for coffee and coffee products with increased discretionary pet spending, through a new product introduction: Doggy Java.
“Everybody drinks coffee and tea,” Mari Justin, creator of the drink, tells Marketing Daily. “I thought that it would be a good time to share with my […]

Lifehack.org:
Turning a good idea into a successful innovation requires the glass to be full. A half full glass simply isn’t enough. There are many things involved in bringing a product to market successfully or turning an idea into reality and each one of them needs to be right, or at least close enough.
Here are 5 […]

Entrepreneur:
They roll out of bed in the morning and head off for work–still in their pajamas. They work from their dining room tables, stock inventory in their cupboards and arrange meetings in the lobbies of their local hotels.
They set their own schedules, jog on the beach during their lunch breaks and give out their house […]

Business Week:
Does your toddler wear perfume? Should your newborn eat organic? And has your four-year-old been to the gym lately?
Moms and dads a generation ago might have laughed at these questions, but today there is a booming market for products and services targeting affluent parents willing to spend freely on their kids.
Armed with more information […]

USA Today:
Q: I started a web design company last year and it’s going great – I have more work than I know what to do with. My problem is that I have been asked to do a site that is much bigger than anything I have done before and it will take all my time […]