Richard Brooks had his epiphany atop a mountain in Chang Mai, Thailand, while convalescing after a serious car accident and the recent death of a close friend.
“I realised how precious my own memories were and thought, wouldn’t it be fantastic to give people the ability to store their memories online, year after year,” he says.
That […]

 
Mouth Crowd is the PR agency of the social networking world.
Need to promote a product or website? Need to market a blog, news or a story? Need loads of word of mouth? Well forget ‘word of mouth’ and think ‘word of web’.
MouthCrowd.com submits your story/article to a number of social networking websites and social bookmarking websites. […]

Kids are always looking for ways to make money, whether they’re selling lemonade, mowing lawns, delivering newspapers or working part-time gigs serving fast food.
Why not try to harness that desire and give them some skills to market their creativity at the same time, thought Loren Steyer, with Caver’s Realty.
Steyer was thinking about his co-workers’ children, […]

 
I was at a wedding last year and remember being sat on a table trying to work a disposable camera that the bride and groom had arranged to be on out table and somebody in a drunken state had wound the camera so far the button had broken and probably ruined the film, looking across […]

 
JK Rowling, author of Harry Potter, stuck on a delayed train between Manchester and London
“It was extraordinary, because I had never planned to write for children. Harry came to me immediately, as did the school and a few of the other characters such as Nearly Headless Nick, the ghost whose head is not quite cut […]

 
When Ed Reeves, co-founder of Moneypenny, realised that responses to their direct mail were drying up, he introduced PURL – personalised web pages. Response rates have soared by 70 per cent.
“One needs to be more clever with their marketing today,” says Reeves, “Sending someone a letter and a brochure doesn’t really cut it anymore.”
Reeves knew […]

Ok - so here’s my idea for a business opportunity if i was to start a franchise, not buy a franchise but start one!
It would be a physical magazine called something like ‘It’s Lunch’ or ‘Lunchtime’ and it would be a FREE magazine that would be published say monthly or twice monthly and delivered to […]

 
Last year, Dave Novak sold $1.2 million of luxury steam-shower and bath equipment, importing wares from China and reselling systems for $2,500 to $4,000 apiece under his own brands, like American Steam and Rockstar.
And he did it from his 20-month-old son’s bedroom in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Novak, 27, runs Novak & Co. LLC from home using […]

The iStraw is a lightweight polycarbonate straw fitted with a special membrane, which uses micro-filtration technology to clean your water. If you’ve tried chlorine tablets, you know how icky the taste can be, and with the iStraw there’s no aftertaste. The company sent one for me to try out so I can attest that the […]

 
Sometimes a hobby can take on a life of its own. If you are lucky, that hobby turns into a viable business opportunity.
What started as a creative outlet for junk mail frustration has now become a line of magnets, beads, wallets and handbags all made from unwanted catalogs, credit card offers and other mailbox invaders. […]