http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:31:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Entrepreneur: 5 Easy Part-Time Online Businesses "1.  Information marketing: We're in the information age, and the internet provides you with the ideal medium to exchange know-how for money. Do you know the best fishing holes?  How to play guitar? The secrets to a successful marriage? A recipe for moist and delicious ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/5-easy-part-time-online-businesses/ Hometown Annapolis: Teen Opens Successful Shaved Ice Business "Katie Neighoff is a busy entrepreneur and the owner of a new business in Galesville, the "Sno Shak." At the Shak, she sells 24 regular and diet flavors of sno-balls. For Katie, the business is a way to earn money for college. It might also ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/teen-opens-successful-shaved-ice-business/ Montreal Gazette: Eco-Friendly, Organic Compost Business "Last summer, Stephen McLeod started an organic waste pickup service, charging clients $5 a week to pick up and properly dispose of their table scraps and garden wastes. The service, called Compost Montreal, has almost 100 clients in St. Henri, the Plateau and Notre Dame de ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/eco-friendly-organic-compost-business-takes-off/ KERA: "TCU student Erick vant' Westeinde is an expert on antique luxury cars, having fallen for them at age 12, when he started collecting and trading pricey, miniature reproductions of Porsches and Mercedes. Vant' Westeinde sold some of his miniatures for double what he paid, then started souping up bicycles. A few ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/student-entrepeneur-fixes-antique-cars-and-resells-them/ Entrepreneur: Start a Doll Making & Repair Business "It may not seem like it, but doll making and repairs is a giant segment of the craft and toy industry. To reinforce this, simply visit an antique shop that specializes in antique dolls or a retailer of new custom "one of a kind" ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/start-a-doll-making-repair-business/ Entrepreneur:  "At age 18, Shawn Nelson was watching TV on the couch when he decided "a huge beanbag thing" might be more comfortable. He bought 14 yards of vinyl, cut it into a baseball shape, and spent three weeks filling it with anything soft he could find. The finished LoveSac was ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/young-furniture-entrepreneur-finds-success/ Entrepreneur: Best Facebook Apps For Business Entrepreneurs "There are more than 35 million active members on the hot social networking site Facebook--and that's a marketing and networking opportunity too large to ignore. A lot of entrepreneurs maintain profiles on Facebook, whether it's to keep up with colleagues, hunt for business partners and employees, or ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/best-facebook-apps-for-business-entrepreneurs/ MSNBC: "There's no doubt that buying an existing small business is less risky than starting one from scratch. Why? Because, unlike a startup: the business has equipment and inventory; the business already has a location, and maybe there's a few more years left on the lease; the business has employees, some of whom you ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/buying-an-existing-business-is-less-risky-than-a-new-startup/ USA Today: "Q: Can anyone be an entrepreneur? A:  I believe anyone can do anything they want to do. You can get started right now were you are. Much of being an entrepreneur starts with a state of mind. How we think determines how our lives will unfold. Right now you are ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/can-anyone-be-an-entrepreneur/ Seattle Post Intelligence: "Q: I am an account manager for a large telecommunications company, but I dread going to work every day. On weekends, I wake up full of energy and work on my eBay business. I make good money at my job, but I feel as though I am in ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/should-you-quit-your-day-job-to-work-on-ebay-business/ WSJ: The WSJ has a good article on how to market a small business in a economic slowdown. In the article they give 12 ideas: 1. Target optimistic entrepreneurs 2. Position yourself as a sales driver 3. Run “likely to leave” models 4. Offer self service 5. Intercept businesses before they make their next move 6. Leverage ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/how-to-market-a-small-business-in-a-economic-slowdown/ Star Tribune: "Catallia Mexican Foods turns out more than a million tortillas a day using four automated production lines at its Eagan factory. The company, aided by financing from a Cargill Inc. subsidiary, has 48 employees. Cruz Gooch started out selling her tortillas a case at a time to supermarkets. She also ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/mexican-food-entrepreneur-becomes-very-successful/ Salt Lake Tribune:  In a tiny showroom of twisted light bulbs, energy entrepreneur Paul Isom is going gangbusters for green. He speaks of wax-covered refrigerator thermostats, pinkie-sized fluorescent bulbs that need no ballast and energy adapters that can make a drinking fountain, escalator and even a rock crusher run more efficiently. "There are ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/senergy-technologies-helping-utah-go-green/ AZCentral.com: What I do: I manage a tranquil, yet energizing yoga studio in north Scottsdale. I get to teach yoga to busy moms, dads, kids, working professionals, teens and families. About my business: My studio is located inside AZ on the Rocks, a rock climbing gym in north Scottsdale. We offer yoga for everyone. ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/business-profile-yoga-studio/ SustainableIndustries.com: The word “entrepreneur,” of French origin, means one who “takes the between.” In my younger days, I viewed entrepreneurs as exploitative—business owners who opportunistically extracted value from an economic flow. But in fact, entrepreneurs can create the flow—or the channel in which the flow can run—by recognizing an opportunity and ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/creating-a-sustainable-business/ HappyNews.com: Jason O'Neill, creator and founder of Pencil Bugs, is the youngest student to receive the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2007. Young Entrepreneurs of America (YEA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and motivating young entrepreneurs. Since the program began over a decade ago, high school students across the country ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/eleven-year-old-wins-young-entrepreneur-of-the-year-award/ MiamiHerald.com: It didn't take David Lopez long to figure out the last thing he wanted was to be just another cog in a corporate wheel. During his freshman year at the University of Central Florida while completing an internship at a Fortune 500 business, Lopez, now 26, was marched into the company ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/smoothie-franchise-begun-by-college-student-flourishes/ Greenbiz.com: Nearly a decade ago, Seth Goldman began brewing his dream business in his own kitchen, with a thermos of tea, some old Snapple bottles and help from his B-school professor and partner Barry Nalebuff. Today, Goldman, "TeaEO" of Honest Tea, reigns over the nation's fastest-growing organic bottled-beverage company, with projected ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/ten-tips-for-starting-a-socially-responsible-business/ SmartCompany.com: Many people think that entrepreneurial people have some magic, in-built gene. You know the sort of story – at the age of five, these natural-born entrepreneurs start their first lemonade stand. Later, they drop out of uni to start some sort of company in the garage and a few years ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/late-blooming-entrepreneurs/ TomsRiverTimes.micromediapubs.com: In 1987, a hardworking man quit his job at a nuclear power plant with the desire to start his own company. When Thomas Kohler made the promising decision to transform his previous experience and part-time work as a plumber into a full-fledged family owned business, he knew it would not ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/business-profile-family-owned-plumbing-and-kitchenbath-design-company/ PressBanner.com: Jerry Toste of Scotts Valley is only 21 and seems to have a perpetual smile on his face. He should — his low-tech startup, Cheap Hauling, is on everyone’s lips: Those trucks are everywhere. Toste is grossing $800,000 per year after 1½ years in business, not bad for a guy who ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/fledgling-business-hauling-in-the-profits/ Entrepreneur.com: Every day, millions of people rush off to work or read the news with a piping hot cup of coffee they've just bought. These consumers are fueling the $12.27 billion coffee industry and, by association, the coffee sleeve industry. Moving on to the day's next task, however, happens to be a little more difficult if ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/inspired-entrepreneurs-creating-coffee-cup-accessories-market/ BusinessWeek.com: Barry Thomsen began his entrepreneurial career as a 10-year-old running a paper route and selling lemonade to workers at construction sites. From there, he sold Amway and Avon, delivered pizza, and started and owned a number of businesses that ranged from a small manufacturer to a business forms supplier. During the ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/important-advice-for-your-first-year-in-business/ SoutheastTexasLive.com: Leo Danna never had any formal culinary training, but he spent years working behind the counter at his parents' old restaurant, the Quality Cafe. Being half-Italian, he said, he also had a knack "for throwing stuff together and making it taste pretty good." So 12 years ago, he began tinkering in ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/entrepreneur-brings-a-new-food-line-to-market/ NewsDurhamRegion.com: An art therapist is showing new mothers a baby doesn't have to be the only new creation they welcome into the world. Susanne Watson-Bongard offers art and wellness programs for all ages with her company, Art and Soul Express. The studio is home-based with a focus on new and expectant mothers they ... http://www.business-opportunities-blog.com/business-profile-an-artistic-outlet-for-new-moms/