Annie Gorringe has a few words of advice to other young people-work hard and follow your aspirations.
After leaving school, she studied beauty therapy. She had one goal and that was to own her own business.
Read the full story in Lynn News
Business Startup: 19 Year Old Starts Her Own Beauty Therapy Business
Posted by owen on February 22nd, 2013
Business Tips: Man Makes A Million Selling Potato Peeler On The Streets
Posted by owen on February 22nd, 2013
You need to have a strong sales pitch to make the sale! And this guy has it!!
You can learn from this guy. It doesn’t matter what you are selling, whether it is your own products or someone else’s.
You need that perfect sales pitch to convert the visitor into a buyer.
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Business Startup: 9 Year Old British Boy Starts His Third Business Venture
Posted by owen on February 20th, 2013
Britain’s youngest entrepreneur is just 9 and has just started his third business startup selling sweets on line.
His previous 2 startup’s were selling bags of manure and a store on e-bay.
He has all the makings of a marketing genius!
Read the full story in SWNS.com
Business Tips: 9 Entrepreneur Lessons That Can’t Be Taught In a Classroom
Posted by owen on February 20th, 2013
These are good business tips and well worth a read.
The theory of entrepreneurship can be learned in a classroom but in practice world class entrepreneurship takes a lot of practice, hard work and a lot of mistakes.
So says Robert S Murray in his book, “Its Already Inside”
Read more in Forbes magazine
Business Startup Idea: Sydney Couple Starts Creative and Stylish Shoe Label
Posted by owen on February 19th, 2013
When Arain and Huq went on their honeymoon, their creative juices started flowing.
Their love of jewellery in exotic places like Morocco and India and Arain’s love of shoes gave them a business startup idea.
They created the interchangeable sandal tops and sell this from their website Aleeyas.
To read more and watch the video, go to Startup Smart
Business Startup Idea: Woman Entrepreneur Grows from Idea to a Thriving Business
Posted by owen on February 18th, 2013
For Laura Zander it was a hobby business startup idea and she would be happy with $30,000 per year.
Here’s proof that you can monetize a hobby on the internet. She was able to grow that idea to a multi-million dollar thriving business. And she grew the business when many high street retailers were closing their doors.
Read the full story in The Story Exchange
9 Ridiculous Business Ideas that Made People Millions
Posted by owen on February 9th, 2013
Remember the pet rock in the 70′s? It made Gary Dahl $15 million plus.
Just recently, the website icanhascheeseburger.com sold for $2 million.
These and other crazy ideas are in a post in Inside Business.
We all have crazy business idea’s, but usually thats all they will become….an idea. Some entrepreneurs will take chances and create a business out of the idea. You need to take chances and a heavy dose of luck.
Do you have a ridiculously crazy business idea? Tell me in the comments below.
How to Never Give up your Dream of becoming an Entrepreneur
Posted by owen on January 31st, 2013
There are mountains to climb and hurdles to endure, but if you want to be an entrepreneur, you should never give up.
Along the way, you may make mistakes and possibly even fail in business venture’s, but dust yourself off and climb the mountain to the goal.
Read more in Funders and Founders.
And how many times should you try-read this infographic
Lady builds 3 Beauty Parlours and a Gym from Nothing in India
Posted by owen on January 30th, 2013
If you have an interest in something and a heavy dose of entrepreneurship, then you can also achieve what Prabhavathi did in India. She managed to claw her way from having no money to owning 3 salons and a gym.
Now she helps others achieve their goals.
A story of courage, inspiration and encouragement. Please read more in the Hindu
Maybe this is something that you can achieve in your neck of the woods?
Please share my post and make some comments below. I love to hear what you think.
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App Watch: Three great Apps for Converting Voice to Text
Posted by owen on January 30th, 2013
Creating and selling apps are the latest buzz word. There are millions of apps to just about do or teach anything.
Every day, I read somewhere that there is an app on the market that’s just come out and most times, I’m totally amazed at what it can do.
Read the post in Entrepreneur magazine’s daily dose about voice to text apps.
Maybe, this will help in your business.
Image courtesy: Voice Assistant
