New Era:
Chinese businesses have been at the receiving end, especially from local retailers and the construction industry who blame Chinese firms for, among others, killing the local markets with inferior quality products, as well as disregarding the laws in tendering for construction contracts.
Perceptions aside, nevertheless, the presence of Chinese products presents a window of […]

New York Sun:
Cedric Bernard and his wife, Sandrine, were two months from the end of the lease on their two-bedroom apartment at 63rd Street and West End, and with a toddler in the house and another child on the way, they needed more space badly.
The condos they’d seen in Manhattan were too expensive, and they […]

Chicago Tribune:
Forget garage sales - Leanore Ransom’s best finds are the contents of storage units bought at auction.
That’s where she bought her Victorian living-room furniture and oak dining set for her Belmont home.
These days, her storage-unit finds - from CDs to tables - also make up the inventory at her new store, Blickety […]

PRWeek:
Visa launched a Visa Business Network for small business owners on Facebook in an effort to take its existing relationship with entrepreneurs a step beyond the business cards and services it offers.
The network, unveiled June 24, offers small business owners the opportunity to network among themselves and with their customers.
“Over the last 12 to 18 […]

Washington Post:
The rapidly growing Hispanic population will have a profound effect on the landscape of the small business community, said marketing expert Chiqui Cartagena, who also noted that Latino women now make up the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurs in the United States.
Latinos accounted for about 15 percent of the total U.S. population in July […]

BusinessWeek:
These trailblazers come from all sorts of businesses-automotive, design, technology-unburdened by the conventions of their new industry. They introduce products some consider shocking. Traditionalists scoff at them. But these outsiders are revolutionizing one of the world’s oldest professions: the funeral industry.
It’s a good time to deal in death. The first baby boomers are entering their […]

The Maui News:
After leaving the construction business to become a stay-at-home mom - now, of four - Bonnie McCarthy found life could be hectic.
She didn’t need all-day care for her kids, but she did sometimes want brief relief.
“I would go to the grocery store with a list of necessities but with the kids being kids, […]

Stuff.co.nz:
Real Estate company Bayleys is zeroing in on the mortgagee sale market with a new website specialising in distress sales.
Bayleys managing director Mike Bayley said the site, www.bayleysmortgagee.co.nz , was attracting a growing number of listings, reflecting tougher economic times throughout the country.
Last week it featured 26 properties across the country, ranging from Auckland CBD […]

Gold Seek:
With residential building in a state of near-collapse, we tend to think that the construction business in general is depressed. While this largely true, there are evidently some niches within the industry that are doing quite well. This point was driven home yesterday in the Rick’s Picks chat room by a commercial builder and […]

TIME:
Besides his glowing complexion, Shigeo Tokuda looks like any other 73-year-old man in Japan. Despite suffering a heart attack 3 years ago, the lifelong salaryman now feels healthier, and lives happily with his wife and a daughter in downtown Tokyo. He is, of course, more physically active than most retirees, but that’s because he’s kept […]

BusinessWeek:
Ian Ginoza, 35, sells sneakers in Wicker Park, but there’s no chance shoppers would mistake his boutique for a Foot Locker.
Sure, Ginoza’s Saint Alfred carries Nike and Reebok, among other brands. But the store orders shoes only every three months, in 12-pair batches, and when a style is sold out, that’s it. Saint Alfred never […]

Springwise:
Tikatok is an online community any child can use to write and illustrate stories, share them with friends and family, and even print them out as real paperback and hardcover books. Children can create a book free-form, or they can use the site’s “StorySpark” templates to help them get started. Words and drawings are easily […]

Times Colonist:
Burt Hill always knew he wanted to be a barber, not a stylist. The 31-year-old, who is one of Victoria’s youngest barbers, liked cutting hair quickly, expertly and without fuss. Salons’ longer wait times and focus on styling hair, hands and sometimes even feet didn’t appeal to him.
‘From the day I entered school, I […]

Entrepreneur:
Business and personal coaches start by getting professional coach training, says Karen Kimsey-House, co-author of Co-Active Coaching.
Find International Coach Federation-accredited training programs at coachfederation.com. Determine your niche by examining your background, your strengths and the kinds of people you’re drawn to helping.
Use your network to find your first clients as well. Says Kimsey-House, ‘It’s […]

The Times-Picayune:
As local governments shelved their recycling programs after Hurricane Katrina, declaring them a luxury for better times, David McDonough and Steven O’Connor saw a business opportunity among the thousands of residents who cringed at having to send all their waste into a landfill.
The pair ratcheted up a small commercial recycling business and began […]

MLive.com:
For Pinconning resident Alan Piechowiak, fishing has always been his passion. So it made sense to take his knowledge of the sport and mix it with business.
In 2004, Piechowiak and his business partner, Kelly Curnutt, took ideas Curnutt learned at a walleye seminar and created B A Outfitters.
The company manufactures and distributes a […]

Unusual Business Ideas That Work:
Tom McGee’s business is surging faster than the price of gasoline.
That’s because PMP Corp. is one of the few places in the U.S. that gas stations can turn to when they need old-style gas pumps adapted to register prices over $4 a gallon.
The mechanical dials on many vintage pumps can’t register […]

Business Opportunity:
With how popular yard sales are, you’d think that people would realize the full potential of ‘junk’. Mike Thorne was able to see the profit available in the junk business as well.
The idea for Just Junk came to him one day at work. When asked to remove old office equipment from the building he […]

World Village:
Much of the advertising and marketing campaigns in the recent decades have been aimed at young consumers. The elderly in the previous generation were stereotyped as low net- worth individuals dependents on their children’s income.
These days, this has become a misguided belief. These seniors including those with higher education have independent sources of income […]

Springwise:
Importers have long wished for an easy way to keep tabs on the shipping and receiving activities of their competitors and suppliers, and two new services from ImportGenius give them instant access to such information in real time.
Import/export data is collected by US Customs each day, and it is already publicly available. What’s been missing, […]