Business Opportunities Weblog
- Up Close and Personal With Crocodiles
Like crocodiles? Then you’ll love Crocosaurus Cove park in Darwin, Australia where tourists to this unusual theme park can get up close and personal with crocodiles.
The Daily Mail has more on the crocodile itself:
Saltwater crocodiles are the largest reptiles on the planet. Their main habitat is northern Australia and New Guinea, Indonesia and Borneo. [...]
- Swagapalooza: Looking for Innovative Consumer Products
Swagapalooza is an experiment in democratizing PR. On September 9th, the world?s most-followed bloggers, tweeters, and digital influencers will gather in New York to judge five-minute auditions from the creators of the latest, greatest, and most unexpected new products… And to connect with each other.
The event gives any new consumer product the chance to get [...]
- Men?s Cosmetics Becoming A Bigl Market
When cosmetics began disappearing from her bathroom drawer a few years ago, Gretchen Bain, who lives in Merchantville, N.J., knew the culprit.
Her husband, Jarrod.
It turned out that Mr. Bain, 34, a Customs and border-protection officer who is 6-foot-3 and weighs 240 pounds ? and whose uniform includes a 9-millimeter handgun ? had developed a [...]
- The Snogometer
The Snogometer is not some new fancy device. Rather, this invention is the product of a 16 year old mind from the 60’s reports the BBC.
Designed to measure the power of a kiss, the archive Pathé news footage shows Malcolm putting his startling development through its paces whilst his mother (yes it is actually [...]
- Shirts That Hate Govt Debt
How’s this for a business idea? One family is selling t-shirts that read Stop Spending MY Money.
I asked the mom, Kathy Conforti, where the idea came from:
Hi. So good to hear back from you. The idea believe it or not came from my oldest son Richard who is 14! We were all watching the [...]
- Silly Bandz Become Dating Tool
We first brought you the story of Silly Bandz, the rubber bracelets that are all the rage among grade-schoolers back in March. Now they’re getting grown-up treatment at bars and clubs.
Adults on the prowl are using the colorful bands instead of bad pickup lines to make love connections says the New York Daily News. “I [...]
- Keep Leaf Makes Going Green Stylish
While on a trip to India when Jaswinder Salh was a teenager, she swore to herself that someday she’d have a job that would make a positive difference in the world. It is now two decades later and Jaswinder has kept that promise reports TheStar.com.
She?s the founder of Keep Leaf, a Toronto-based company known [...]
- Researcher Walks Into A Bar, Makes $712,883
A researcher at Northwestern University walks into a bar.
Oh wait, no he didn?t?because he?s too busy spending the $712,883 he received in grant money to create joke-writing software.
According to The Chicago Sun-Times, the federally-funded project has had some conservative backlash?Sen. John McCain ranked it as 36 on his list of the 100 most [...]
- New Bizop Classified Ads This Week
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- Carrots as Junk Food
Farmers have been using vending machines to sell carrots for awhile now.
What’s new is that one group of farmers has teamed up with an advertising agency to rebrand baby carrots and advertise them in a way that mimics snack food like potato chips.
What do you think?
- The Race To Launch L-A, Maine
Lewiston-Auburn, Maine has begun the race to find a young entrepreneur. Not just anyone, though. They are on the lookout for someone with a connection to their community that is interested in building there.
There are a few catches, of course: you have to be willing to locate that business in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine?s second [...]
- Her Own Biz, At Just 11 Years Old
Micro businesses are everywhere. They are run by people of all ages, educations, talents and passions.
The New England Cable News Network highlights an amazing story in Massachusetts of a unique and successful micro business, but with an intriguing sole proprietor.
McKenzie Plante, an 11-year old girl in the seaport town or Gloucester, Massachusetts, has [...]
- Entrepreneurs Love Election Season
The Wall Street Journal reports that as campaign season ramps up, entrepreneurs that make products designed to help office-seekers and incumbents win votes are bracing for business.
Small companies such as VictoryStore.com Inc. have introduced new marketing tools for political candidates in recent years, with users ranging from U.S. senators to small-town sheriffs. More politicians are [...]
- Cool Invention: The Dyson Balloon Acclerator
Via: TechnaBob.com
- Losing It All And Earning It Back
12 years ago you might have recognized the name Bill Bartmann. He was on the richest lists with thanks to his debt collection company, Commercial Financial Services. After a serious scandal hit him and his business that is when everything began to go under reports Inc..
We started CFS in 1985. It was phenomenally [...]
- Online Shoppers Want One Thing This Holiday Season
According to Website Magazine, e-commerce merchants who are still unsure of what consumers want this holiday season can direct their efforts toward providing user reviews, security verification and fair pricing. In a word, 2010 holiday shoppers are looking for online retailers they can trust.
That was the fundamental message from ChannelAdvisor?s 2010 Consumer Shopping Habits Survey, [...]
- The New King Of New Orleans
Chris Schultz can divide his time in New Orleans into pre- and post-K periods: before and after Katrina reports Portfolio.com.
For Schultz, founder of the technology incubator Voodoo Ventures, the difference is that stark. What Schultz?who founded and sold an Internet travel business, Destination V.I.P., before moving to New Orleans from Los Angeles in 2002?has seen [...]
- U.S. Birth Rate Falls, Possible Effect Of Recession
The Washington Post reports that the number of babies born in the United States has dropped for the second year in a row, according to new federal statistics released Friday that provide more evidence that the nation’s economic troubles are affecting the birth rate.
Provisional data for 2009 found that an estimated 4,136,000 babies were born [...]
- Tech Support By The Minute
If you’re having computer problems, who do you call? If your computer is outdated then tech support for your machine might be out of the question. However, to take your computer in to a repairman can cost $50 or more just for a consultation and if you want them to come to your [...]
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