Ecommerce Journal:
If you are new to the Internet business and money making online, you can try to set up an AdSense niche blog with a comfort at your home to gain extra income. Here are four simple steps in implement it.
The first step is to get a niche. You should be focused on a [...]

Emediawire:
An online programme leading to the award of a Master of Laws in Chinese Business Law by the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) is available for global enrollment. Holders of a Master’s degree recognized by the University may complete the programme within 12 months.
Commencing in April this year, the programme is the first [...]

Examiner.com:
The economy may be suffering, but for a host of business owners and entrepreneurs out there, there are no excuses.
This is a time for innovation, progress and hard work - even if they are college students.
Greeley is becoming a hotbed of business ideas as students try their hands at the business world, be it opening [...]

Fast Company:
Innovators don’t invent all by themselves: To paraphrase Isaac Newton, great inventors see further than others because they stand on the shoulders of giants.
Researchers at the Center for Technology Assessment hope to use that insight to clear out the enormous blacklog of U.S. patent applications, which is stifling American innovation simply because inventors [...]

Springwise:
There’s no doubt having a baby is a joyful experience, but most moms would likely agree that it would be a whole lot more joyful if one didn’t have to start off so sore and tired. Aiming to transform the hospital stay into one of relaxation and rejuvenation, Go Home Gorgeous hopes to better equip [...]

By LeaRae Keyes - Nurse Entrepreneur Network:
It may seem counter intuitive to start a business during a recession. However, there are a number of reasons why this could be a great time for you to launch your nurse entrepreneur start up business.
Many hospitals in my part of the country, the Midwest, are laying off [...]

CBC.ca:
While newspapers throughout North America struggle with declining revenues, a Chicago entrepreneur plans to launch a new newspaper that reprints blogs in print format.
The first issues of The Printed Blog are to go on sale Tuesday in Chicago and San Francisco.
The three-page, full-colour newspaper will consist exclusively of online content from over 300 local and [...]

AZ Central.com:
Newlyweds Dan and Janet Rush were simply continuing a family-business tradition when they bought a third of an acre in south Phoenix nearly 20 years ago to open a junkyard.
A born entrepreneur, Dan Rush was soon developing additional sites to expand the ways he could meet customers’ needs.
JSL Management now holds more [...]

CNNMoney:
On a Wednesday afternoon in late December, the average wait to sell clothing at Buffalo Exchange, a Manhattan consignment shop, was about 25 minutes. Beyond the front counter, where the consignors sought pocket cash and tax deductions, nearly a dozen shoppers squeezed themselves between overstuffed racks in the 450-square-foot space, seeking bargains amid used designer [...]

The Grand Rapids Press:
As a young girl, Morgan Doane spent many hours crafting with her mom and styling Barbie and Strawberry Shortcake dolls.
“I was a doll maniac,” she said. “I had 7 million Barbies.”
Fast forward two decades and Doane, 27, of Grand Rapids, still is crafting and playing with dolls. The difference is she makes [...]

NicheGeek:
For dieters working to lose weight, maintaining a decent wardrobe of clothes that fit can be an ongoing—and expensive—challenge on the way to a target size. With just that situation in mind, Transitional Sizes rents out name-brand clothing for temporary use while the pounds come off.
Maryland-based Transitional Sizes, which just recently launched, offers women’s and [...]

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Charleston Post Courier:
A lot of high school students work in restaurants, but for Brian Carver, the experience was more than just a way to make money.
“I really fell in love with cooking,” Carver said, and that brought him from Beaufort to Johnson & Wales University in Charleston. He received a Bachelor of Science degree [...]

Anchorage Daily News:
In mid-Spenard, in a tiny house the color of salmon roe, sit racks of trays and 30-gallon barrels crawling with crickets, mealworms and mice.
A little shop of horrors to the warm- blooded of the species. A gourmet buffet to those whose blood runs cold.
This is the Alaskan Reptile and Cricket Ranch, Dianna Smith, [...]

Alibaba News Channel:
Personal services. Can you save someone else time? Running errands for seniors, preparing someone’s tax returns or walking your neighbors’ dogs are examples of valuable services to offer.
Gardening and landscaping. Consider the growing garden trade. Homeowners who lack the time or desire to plant and prune still recognize the importance of curb appeal [...]

BizOpBlogs:
Renee Wood says she’s used to weeping at work. She runs an online bereavement-gift outfit, Comfort Co., from suburban Geneva and gets calls all day from people who want to buy something special for someone who has just lost a loved one. Compassion comes naturally to Wood—she was a social worker in a neonatal unit [...]

Citizen Economists:
Traditional global credit markets have frozen, and they’re proving difficult to unstick. Under-capitalized banks are not keen to lend out what’s left on their balance sheets—not even and sometimes especially not to each other—and the value of the U.S. currency has risen steeply relative to those of other nations as banks around the world [...]

Post-Crescent:
In a time when more corporations are searching for ways to automate customer service, entrepreneurs who cater to people constantly on the go are filling a niche.
The days of house calls are not over.
Business owners are earning livings by offering their services either at their clients’ homes or on their clients’ schedules.
For some owners, offering [...]

CNNMoney:
The California suburbs around Los Angeles are filled with foreclosed houses - and in each one, entrepreneur Ramon Mercado sees opportunity.
Mercado is the owner of Miss Junk, a 20-person trash-hauling company. Launched late last year, Miss Junk began as a general junk-removal service, but it quickly settled into a niche assisting banks and realtors with [...]

Iconoculture:
This may be taking the dog days of summer a bit too literally. Pouncing off pet-sharing programs like Flexpetz, the hospitality industry is offering guests a rather unique amenity: pet leasing.
At select Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, guests can “rent” dogs for several hours. At Quebec City, Boston and Vancouver locations, dogs even have their [...]