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Opportunities RSS FeedsStart 2009 With An Empty Inbox! - Matt Cutts’ Blog: Matt Cutts (who works for the Search Quality group in Google) has a great idea for starting the New Year. Start with a fresh and empty inbox in your Gmail. There?s nothing like an empty inbox to motivate you and give you a fresh start for the year. But Matt,? you say, ?my inbox is [ ]...Feed Source: www.business-opportunities.biz Startup Offering Unique Pet Service -
Montana’s News Station:
A Missoula-based Internet company recently launched “Pet Living Wills” as a way to protect your favorite dog, cat or goldfish when you are not there.
If you could speak on behalf of your pets, what would you say is a question MaryEllen Campbell asked when a horse she was watching for a friend came [ ]... From Ad Exec To Baby Food Maker -
Telegraph.co.uk:
Since 2002 Tom Burrough, 43, has reinvented himself not once but twice: from well-paid advertising executive to stay-at-home father, and now, as the founder of a baby food company, launched from his kitchen table.
In 2003 Burrough came up with the idea for Burrough?s Baby Food. He has always loved cooking, and remembers making French toast [ ]... One Woman?s Trash Is Another Woman?s?Lingerie? -
The Wall Street Journal:
Even though gift-giving was relatively stingy this Christmas season, enough stuff changed hands to generate plenty of leftover trash. And that means good tidings for the artists who transform cast-offs into commodities.
Curbsides and trash bins are suddenly overflowing with bags, boxes and other booty that will become the raw material for creations [ ]... SCORE Offers Web Resource For Entrepreneurs -
Suburban Life Publications:
Start out right for your business in 2009 with SCORE: Counselors to America?s Small Business.? SCORE provides a resource page called ?Small Business Smart Start Tools?. This content area offers valuable resources for assessing your business, organizing your workplace and planning for success.
Browsers will find the following tips and tools:
? Quick-Start Business Plan: [ ]... VisitorCamp.com Offers Search Engine Marketing For The Modest Budget - If you run an online business, you need your traffic to convert into customers. If the traffic to customer ratio is too low, you won’t have a business for long.
The struggle to bring in traffic and convert those visitors into the customers you need is one that many businesses have to face. It’s [ ]... Sarah Palin 2009 Calendar Becomes Amazon Bestseller -
Mashable:
What?s the best selling office product on Amazon.com this New Year? Perhaps printer ink and paper for all those holiday pics? Cases for all the new laptops received this Christmas?
Try: none of the above.
Currently leading Amazon?s Office Products and Supplies bestseller list is the Sarah Palin 2009 Calendar.
According to the ad copy for the calendar [ ]... The New Work Ethic: Controlling Your Attention -
intellectual properties:
Columnist David Brooks, commenting in the Dec. 16th New York Times about Malcolm Gladwell?s latest book called ?Outliers,? made a statement as profound as it was accurate: ?Control of attention is the ultimate individual power,? he wrote. ?People who can do that are not prisoners of the stimuli around them.?
But why is that truer [ ]... 2009 Web Predictions -
Website Magazine:
2008 has drawn to a close, and many Web professionals are wondering what next year will bring. It may seem arbitrary to make predictions, but the Web business is not a static industry and forecasting often shines the light on our practical hopes for the future.
1. A Major Social Media Shift
2. E-Commerce and Internet [ ]... Create Online Video That Works -
Mashable:
With the recent explosion and expansion of online video, the biggest question is how to best drive viewer action and monetize this new medium.
Even with these strong benefits, most agree that the video opportunity has yet to be fully realized. Companies struggle to best make use of this new medium, and have found that porting [ ]... The Lowdown on Home Office Deductions -
Making It Legal:
The home office deduction sounds like it would be a great thing for small business owners. After all, many of us work at home, and it?s not as though the IRS is always so generous when it comes to deductions for the ?little guys.? Deducting a portion of rent/mortgage interest, utilities, insurance, repairs, [ ]... How Gorgeous Is Your Garage? -
When you open your garage door, what do you see? Like most people, I would bet that you hope to see everything organized for an optimum amount of space. However, that’s probably not what you see.
Jared Newman of Gorgeous Garage knows exactly how you feel. He started by organizing his own garage. [ ]... Simulating A High Five Machine: Great Idea? -
Funny Patents and Inventions:
Is there anyone out there who isn?t familiar with the high five celebratory gesture made by two people, each raising one hand to slap the raised hand of the other?
It dates back to 1944 when in the movie, Cover Girl (1944), Phil Silvers? character, Genius, tears up a telegram and attempts [ ]... Profit In A Bathroom Break -
The New York Times:
A New York couple is betting on the idea that at least one thing is recession-proof: demand for a convenient and clean public toilet.
SitOrSquat, an ad-supported Web site and mobile application created by Danika Landers and Jonathan Glanz, delivers a handy listing of public bathrooms, from the ones at Starbucks to Saks [ ]... The Etch-A-Sketch Man -
Trendhunter:
Christoph Brown is the Etch-A-Sketch Man and he?s amazing! He makes highly detailed drawings using an Etch-A-Sketch.
You remember the Etch-A-Sketch, don?t you? It?s that red box with something inside that lets you make pictures.
If you think this ingenious system is complicated, try drawing with the thing! Few people get past creating the basic crude letter [ ]... How T-Shirts Keep Online Content Free -
Wired:
In 2003, Burnie Burns got together with three friends and created Red vs. Blue?an animated comedy series set in the world of first-person shooter Halo.
Nerds loved it, and within months nearly a million people were downloading each week’s free show.
Burns & Co. decided they wanted to quit their jobs and work on the series [ ]... Tough Times? Check Out Local Libraries -
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
David Lovich visits a library near his home several days a week to look for a job. On Monday, his favorite spot in a busy east Cobb County branch was taken.
At public libraries across the metro area, business is booming, and patrons are visiting the libraries for more than recreational reading. More and more, [ ]... Watch Choice Takes On The Luxury Watch Market -
For every product, there is a niche to reach. Those who love to fish are more likely to reach out to a business that specializes in what they want over something much more generic. For those interesting in buying or selling watches, Watch Choice has given them the ultimate luxury watch marketplace. [ ]... Top 10 Life Hack Business Ideas -
Springwise:
The best new life hack business ideas spotted in the last 12 months?smart concepts that will continue to provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2009.
1. ModerNash ? Niche delivery biz brings IKEA to Nashville
2. Ticket to Mind ? Gift-giving simplified through a prepaid plan
3. Babyplays ? Toy rental service
4. Insinger de Beaufort ? Private [ ]... Top 10 Fashion & Beauty Ideas -
Springwise:
The best new fashion & beauty ideas spotted in the last 12 months?smart concepts that will continue to provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2009.
1. Yakkay ? Stylish helmets for urban cyclists
2. Transitional Sizes ? Clothing rental for size-changing dieters
3. Catwalk Genius ? Adopt-a-designer [ ]... Top 10 Retail Ideas -
Springwise:
The best new retail ideas spotted in the last 12 months?smart concepts that will continue to provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2009.
1. Filippa K ? Swedish fashion brand launches its own secondhand store
2. Gerbola Vin ? Wine selling & storytelling
3. Fashionology LA ? [ ]... Top 10 Lifestyle & Leisure Ideas -
Springwise:
The best new lifestyle & leisure ideas spotted in the last 12 months?smart concepts that will continue to provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2009.
1. vibrantBrains ? Brain gyms for baby boomers
2. Tikitag ? Connecting online & off with RFID for the masses
3. Hello Health [ ]... Top 10 Food & Beverage Ideas -
Springwise:
The best new food & beverage ideas spotted in the last 12 months?smart concepts that will continue to provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2009.
1. Graze ? Healthy snacks, delivered by mail in serving sizes
2. Geschmackslabor ? Taste lab restaurant lets customers add flavour to their meals
[ ]... Need A Ride Home? Zingo?s There For You -
St. Petersburg Times:
Zingo has a simple plan: turn a profit by keeping people from getting arrested for drunken driving.
So far it’s working, despite the trying economy.
The Atlanta company is a designated-driver business chain that gives tipsy customers a drive home in their own cars. It has grown from six franchises a year ago to 20, [ ]... 10 New Year?s Resolutions -
Entrepreneur:
Here are 10 New Year’s resolutions and discussion topics–suggestions you can offer your staff to guide them toward a higher level of productivity:
1. I will work smarter.
2. I will increase my working network in and out of my immediate area and inside and outside my company.
3. I will find three things [ ]... Copyright © 2009, Cool Collection. All Rights Reserved. |