http://crazymoney.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:31:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   http://www.rockandrepublic.com/ Coaching Millions: Help More People, Make More Money, Live Your Ultimate Lifestyle How Sigmund Freud Helped A Man Sell Couches Worth Thousands Of Dollars A little over five years ago, Michael Ball looked at his then-girlfriend’s expensive jeans and decided he could design a much better pair himself. Not long ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/11/28/selling-300-jeans-in-a-down-economy/ http://www.baconsalt.com/ Bacon Salt was the invention of Dave Lefkow and Justin Esch, two former employees of Seattle startup Jobster. The idea for Bacon Salt came over dinner one night. This is how they tell it: “While on a business trip together, we had the chance to sit down for dinner ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/11/06/how-two-tech-guys-created-a-viral-food-sensation/ http://www.incrediblefoods.net/ Like many entrepreneurs, Jim Christy set out to boost revenues by reaching a bigger market. But the founder and CEO of Incredible Foods, a dessert delivery service in Gibsonia, Pa., soon found that bigger sales don’t necessarily equal better business. Christy, 55, was inspired by a San Diego bakery’s cheesecake. ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/10/30/dumping-startbucks-can-be-a-good-thing-for-your-business/ http://www.smashshack.com/ When Sarah Lavely gets angry, she likes to break things. Not all the time, but on days when everything seems to be going wrong, she has been known to throw some plates against a wall. Fortunately, she has an easy outlet: Lavely is the founder of Sarah’s Smash Shack, ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/10/09/a-san-diego-entrepreneur-has-found-a-perfect-business-for-frustrating-times-selling-customers-breakables-to-fling-against-wall/ http://www.disaboom.com/ Despite his wheelchair, and often because of it, Dr. Glen House has always enjoyed doing what he isn’t supposed to. Take the time he persuaded his neighbor in Colorado Springs, J.W. Roth, to join him on vacation in the ice fields of Taku, Alaska. The trip entailed flying ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/10/05/disaboomcom-success-story/ What pushed Priscilla Maddox was the relentless smell of vanilla. Maddox was toying with launching a cookie line after retiring from her 36-year hospital care job, but was overwhelmed by the vanilla smell in her apartment. When she couldn’t find a kitchen to rent, she started a rent-a-kitchen that has become a ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/09/30/rent-a-kitchen-business-model-proves-to-be-big-success/ http://thesolemates.com/ In fall 2006, Monica Murphy of Old Greenwich and Becca Brown had everything going for them. The respective Georgetown and Harvard University alumnae were in their last year of business school at Columbia University, with jobs lined up at Goldman Sachs upon graduation. There was just one problem: Their stilettos ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/09/27/a-well-heeled-business/ http://www.mint.com/ Wherever money is transacted, tracked or traded, there is a profit to be made. It’s a fundamental principle of markets from Wall Street to eBay. Now Web 2.0 entrepreneur Aaron Patzer, 27, is putting that principle to work. Patzer was tired of spending hours at his PC entering expense ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/09/22/mintcom-success-story/ http://www.maghound.com/ Introducing a new business model to the world of magazine selling, Time Inc just launched Maghound, a mix and match service for periodicals. Maghound members don’t subscribe to a fixed set of magazines. Instead, they pick the number of magazines they’d like to receive every month, and can then change ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/09/21/try-a-mag-business-idea/ http://www.sneakart.com/ Still in beta, UK-based Sneakart offers users the opportunity to customize their sneakers via Sneakskin, a super-thin, flexible, durable and waterproof graphic film that can be applied to white, light-coloured and metallic shoes. Printed with non-toxic ink in the UK, Sneakskin is 100 percent PVC-free and can ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/09/20/sneaker-art-as-a-business/ www.knetwit.com Forget social networking. The next big Web-based thing is going to be "knowledge sharing." So says Benjamin Wald, who dropped out of Babson College his sophomore year to start a business that capitalizes on this concept, with his fraternity brother, Dean "Tyler" Jenks, who also dropped out (he was ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/09/19/the-next-big-thing/ If you’re stumped for business ideas, here’s a free business idea that could make somebody rich. Good business ideas start with identifying a need that isn’t currently being addressed in the marketplace. Coming up with good business ideas isn’t that hard, as we try to show in this example. For this ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/09/17/how-to-make-one-million-dollar-very-quickly/ http://www.posterbride.com When consumers celebrate special occasions, a little gravanity goes a long way and bigger tends to be better. 5starbaby’s movie poster birth announcements, which we covered earlier this year, are one case in point, and recently one of our spotters hit upon another: poster-sized wedding invitations. Seattle-based Poster Bride makes ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/09/16/posterbridecom-business-idea/ Everyone who had ever tried to make an exquisite marinade for meat for barbecue party knows what a nightmare it can be: you have to use a lot of species and it´s really hard to clean your hands off afterwards. Alan Segel came up with a great business idea when ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/09/15/spicy-business-idea/ Quinn Thompson launched his women’s fashion label, Saint Grace (saintgrace.com), with $1,000, one type of fabric, and a vision to change the fit and feel of the T-shirt. Over the past six years his luxurious vintage-inspired knitwear company has grown each season with new styles, new customers - and new ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/09/14/how-to-turn-1000-into-a-hot-brand/ http://www.hangers.com When I was 23, I went to work in my father’s warehouse in Miami. It sold store fixtures - mannequins, showcases, hangers - everything in a store that a store doesn’t sell. I started to pay attention to the hangers when I noticed that every retailer who came ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/09/14/the-hanger-millionaire/ Webcomics are picking up where print comic books and newspaper strips have left off. You probably haven’t yet heard of the latest up-and-coming town, Achewood. That’s because Ache-wood only exists in a webcomic of the same name. It’s part of a growing cadre of webcomics mixing sharp humor and art ... http://crazymoney.blogsome.com/2008/09/14/funny-business/