Our business ideas article was picked up for some Carnivals this week, so I thought I’d share them with you. Carnivals pull together links to some of the best recent online articles on one particular subject, so they make great exploratory reading. Go read these Carnivals for some terrific business-related articles: Business, Technology and Knowledge…
Onthaal, lezers Enthousiasmeren! Welcome, ProBlogger and Biz of Knowledge Readers! Here’s How to position yourself as an expert. Thank you to Bill Belew at Biz of Knowledge for compiling 66 of the great bloggers featured in our friend Ted Demopoulos‘ book, What Nobody Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting. His post has now been…
The best business ideas for small towns are already out there. Where do you find them? Here are four different ways to connect with great small business ideas. Keep in mind that you’ll find ideas you can freely use, ideas you will need to license for a fee, and ideas that are only available as…
Another small town small business idea: Buy damaged items from online auction sites, repair them, and then resell them. I got this idea from a student in one of my eBay classes. She would search eBay for broken china dolls. Her search keywords included “needs help” and “poor thing”. These broken dolls came at a…
Think what we are saying is too basic? Or too repetitive? “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”Dr. Samuel Johnson It’s what Mark Taylor calls “a Blinding Flash of the Obvious.” Music by Frenz, from Pod Safe Audio. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see?…
It’s that time again! Brag Basket time! Once a week, I offer this post as a safe place to brag a bit. You can brag on your business, your community, or your self. The goal is to allow you a chance to review your week. Learned anything? Made any accomplishments you’d like to share? We…
Our friend Jack Schultz found the best ever “shop local” campaign. (From Oklahoma, of course!) An advertisement from the Perkins Community Foundation really caught my eye in the Perkins Journal. It showed a picture of the local fire department fighting a fire in the community with this caption, “If you have a fire, you need…
Researchers at universities worldwide have developed techniques for creating uses for otherwise wasted items, like chicken feathers and cotton plant stalks. Some of these techniques can be licensed from the universities, and some are freely in the public domain. Can you put these ideas into practice, making something out of “nothing”?Pulling together several different processes,…
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