Ideas & Opportunities
Cellphone Billboard
“We’re calling the phone ‘the brand in your hand’ — you’re never more than a foot away from it, 24 hours a day,” said Fareena Sultan , associate professor of marketing at Northeastern University’s College of Business Administration. The challenge, Sultan said, will be to produce an advertisement for the phone “that excites the person [...]
Making a Splash In the Trash Business
In New Orleans’s French Quarter, it seemed nothing could ever stanch the morning-after party scent permeating from its famed Bourbon Street — especially during Mardi Gras. “There’s a whole bunch of beer spilled and liquor and whatever else, and when the sun comes up…it all ferments,” says Leonce Collins, a 10-year French Quarter resident and [...]
Coat Hangers Go Green Like Money
3.5 billion wire hangers are tossed into landfills every year, and that’s just in the United States. While the hangers are light, inexpensive and sturdy, they’re not exactly bio-degradable. Hanger Network has developed an alternative: a dry cleaner’s hanger made entirely from recycled paper. EcoHangers are sturdy and cheap. And because they’re paper, they can [...]
Weather Insurance
Weather is unpredictable. Your bottom line doens’t have to be Buy a Weather Contract and WeatherBill will pay you when weather conditions occur that may impact your business. You can be paid for rainy days that may keep your customers away, a heat wave that may impact buying habits of your customers, or a frost [...]
Make way for must stream TV
Two-minute YouTube clips were just the start. As television comes to the Internet, dozens of companies are gunning to become the networks of tomorrow, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. Wayne’s World, it’s not. The Web TV series Diggnation draws hundreds of thousands of viewers. It has Fortune 500 corporate sponsors, and its two young stars are [...]
Tap Into Your Own Talent
As an entrepreneur, you often jump at any chance to expand your business. However, your business’s biggest and best asset is you. It’s your expertise that makes your business unique and leads to the most efficient growth opportunities. Find what you do brilliantly, and do more of it. Tap into the innate power behind what [...]
Oprah’s Search For The Next Big Idea
Do you have an original invention you want the world to know about? You could be siting on a gold-mine! The Oprah Winfrey Show is teaming up with QVC to launch a search on the next big thing! If you are the winner, QVC will provide you with on-air promotion to help you launch your [...]
