Business Ideas, Motivations, News, Social Entrepreneurship

Going Green – Small Changes, Big Impact

What Does Go Green Mean? Green can mean many different things to different people. For some, it means simply environmentally friendly and to others means living a life that is not dangerous to the health of people or animals

When you Go Green you only use green house products that are healthy for the environment and include no toxins, you recycle to help save land fills, and you do everything possible to live healthy and reduce the impact on our earth. By living green and going green you reduce any negative impact on the planet in all possible ways.

The truth is that everything single thing we do every day has an impact on the planet — good or bad. The good news is that as an individual you have the power to control most of your choices and, therefore, the impact you create: from where you live to what you buy, eat, and use to light your home to where and how you vacation, to how you shop, you can have global impact

We Believe in Everyone should live in an Eco friendly home!

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Business Ideas, News, Resources

Crowdsourcing as a Business Tool

The crowdsourcing is an incredible tool, we can use it to outsource our needs to a group of professionals that will bring us a cheaper solution either keeping or increasing the quality.

Guerra Creativa [ http://www.guerra-creativa.com ] is a crowdsourcing platform where everyone can access to a growing community of designers. They will battle to design the best logos, websites, stationary designs and other kind of graphic material. GC (Guerra Creativa) brings the chance to interact with people from all over the world, and mostly from Latin America, creating contests where the Contest Holder decides the prize.

If you are looking to redesign your website, get a logo for your company or just create a customed christmas card, you will only need to name your price and watch designers compete for your work. Finally you choose the best design among lots of different proposals.

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Business Ideas, Marketing, News

Export Opportunities for SMEs

Products that are exported by SMEs in India and in which small-scale industries (SSI) generally have the bulk of the share, are garments, engineering goods, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, leather, plastic products, processed food, gems and jewelery. Also, 95 percent of the products exported by the SSI are non traditional products. Click Here to read more….

Business Ideas, Calendar, News

The Truly Great, Start Young !

MOST PROMISING YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS –

Call for entries -for a lifetime opportunity for young entrepreneurs aspiring to be business leaders.

Business World is scouting for the hottest young entrepreneurs –

The chosen finalists will feature in BusinessWorld’s Promising Entrepreneurs Issue.  If you :

  1. are below 35 years of age
  2. have a business that is over 2 years and less than 5 years old in a brand new niche, a new business model in an established business or an entirely new business,

you are eligible to apply

Last Date for entries – 31 October 2009

Click here for the entry form

Business Ideas

Profitable Businesses with Products Under Re. One

If you thought that a Re 1 note or coin has no value in today’s world of luxury cars and penthouses, then think again

Who says Re 1 can’t buy you anything? It just takes a pair of observant eyes to find a number of things that can be bought for this paltry sum.

To begin with, we were able to count at least 50 items that retail for just Re 1 or under. If you think this is interesting, then the amazing part is that there are several industries that thrive solely on these products. Now just imagine that such products not only manage to recover costs, but also make significant profits!

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Business Ideas, Motivations, Resources

Trend Watching

trendwatching.com is an independent and opinionated trend firm, scanning the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas. For the latest and greatest, we rely on our network of hundreds of spotters in more than 120 countries worldwide.

Our trend findings help marketers, CEOs, researchers, and anyone else interested in the future of business and consumerism, to dream up new goods, services and experiences for (or even better, with) their customers.

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Business Ideas, People / Stories

With only Rs 15,000/-, she became an entrepreneur

At 17, when most girls of her age were set to go to college for higher studies, she got married.

But Sarala Bastian did not wish to just be confined to her house. She wanted to do something on her own. She wanted to be independent and carve out an identify for herself.

“My father gave me the initial capital of Rs 15,000 to start a business in 2004. I started a mushroom farm in my backyard,” says Sarala. There has been no looking back since. .

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