Go Green Go is the Winner of the Idea Cafe’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Grant

Go Green Go, a T-shirt business that promotes eco-friendly activities, is the winner of Idea Café’s Entrepreneurial Spirit 2009 Small Business Grant. With its original concept of promoting eco-awareness and social responsibility, Go Green Go has instantly grabbed the hearts of our regulars and stood out amongst hundreds of other nominated small business ideas. Congratulation! We wish you luck in all your future initiatives!

Language Translation as a Home Business

Among the many home business ideas that keep floating in the business environment, the most pragmatic and stable ones are those that involve some special personal skills of the entrepreneur. In such businesses that involve a particular skill, the competition reduces because of the fact that not everyone will be able to enter such a line and compete with you. Therefore, the value and worth of such businesses sustains for the long run, and there is always a fair amount of work and a fair profit margin available in them.

Accounts Receivable Factoring: It’s More Than Just the Money

The concept of “core competency” refers to the things done by a business that lie at the heart of its ability to manufacture a product or deliver a service. They are strengths relative to other organizations that are not easily imitated and that can be leveraged across different products and markets.

Your Unique Selling Proposition

Your USP (Unique Selling Proposition)--whether for yourself or your business--is a critical part of your marketing success. How many times have you been at a business or social function when you were asked what you did? How did you answer? Were you able to articulate clearly in just a sentence or two what you did and explain it in a way that evoked genuine interest?

The Eighth Idea Cafe's Small Business Grant Now Open For Applications!

We’ve got some exciting news: Idea Cafe is proud to open today its new $1,000.00 Small Business Grant, dedicated to all entrepreneurs who are keen on conquering new heights with their business acumen. We hope this grant can help a promising entrepreneur speed up the process of taking their business ideas to the next level.

The Seventh Idea Cafe's Grant Winner to Shine on July 20

Voting is now closed and we are getting ready to announce the winner. Fifty small business ideas took part in the final phase of the contest, competing for your vote. If you’ve read our finalists Q&A stories on Idea Café Blog, you must have seen there are many terrific finalists with original approach and inspirational ideas. In the end, it is your vote that will determine who is the most outstanding small business owner.

What Worked, What Didn't, What's Next?

One of the common denominators of successful people is their ability to persevere when things don't go as planned. Effective people don't allow themselves to get bogged down in feelings that don't serve their purpose.

Stop Playing the Waiting Game

Many business owners anxiously wait by their mailbox each day to find out how they can conduct that day’s business. If much-anticipated checks arrive, that’s great—they can pay suppliers, meet payroll and tax obligations and perhaps take advantage of growth opportunities. If they don’t arrive, it may mean another sleepless night, wondering when all those checks that are “in the mail” will actually materialize.

Finalist Q&A: Environmentally Conscious Organization (e.c.o.), Incorporated

Environmentally Conscious Organization (e.c.o.), Inc. is a design and licensing firm, dedicated to improving outmoded, outdated and wasteful food packaging. e.c.o. is marketing its first product, the ‘Green Box’ (US Patent 7,051,919), a pizza box manufactured from 100% recycled material. The top of the ‘Green Box’ breaks down into convenient serving plates, eliminating the need for disposable plates. The remainder of the box converts easily into a handy storage container, eliminating the need for plastic wrap, tin foil or plastic bags. The perforations and scores that create this functionality allow for easy disposal into a standard-sized recycling bin. Made from a standard pizza blank, the ‘Green Box’ requires no additional material or major redesign and can therefore be produced at no additional manufacturing cost. e.c.o. owns the utility patent on the ‘Green Box.’

Finalist Q&A: Fanta-Sea Divers

Fanta-Sea Divers teach people how to blow bubbles! They are scuba diving instructors, introducing folks to an exciting new underwater world. Here is what they say: "It is so amazing to see the look on our students faces when they realize how much FUN scuba diving is and how truly magical the underwater world is."

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