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<title>How to Make Money by Being a Smart Aleck</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/Opportunities/How-to-Make-Money-by-Being-a-Smart-Aleck.296349</link>
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<![CDATA[<p>Do people describe you as a smart aleck? Do you have a talent for off beat humor and sarcastic sayings? If so, you can make money with your talent. In the world of weird and fun business ideas, there are ways to market your sarcasm and make a nice income for your time and efforts. Need inspiration? Here are some ways to profit by being a smart aleck:</p>
<h3>Sell Your Sarcastic Saying on Caf&amp;eacute; Press</h3>
<p>Caf&amp;eacute; Press is an online site where you can upload and sell witty sayings on t-shirts, mousepads, mugs, and a variety of other imprinted items. You can upload your wit free of charge or pay a small fee to open a Caf&amp;eacute; Press shop specializing in your brand of humor. Getting started is as simple as signing up and uploading your ideas. If you have graphics talent, you can create graphics to go with your sayings to make them even more marketable. Caf&amp;eacute; Press buyers love off beat humor and will gladly pay for your sayings if you're good. This is an easy, low risk way to test the market..</p>
<h3>Sell Your Sarcasm on Greeting Cards</h3>
<p>There are a number of greeting card companies that specialize in off-beat, sarcastic humor and these may be a good market for your talents. Pay a visit to your local greeting card counter and look at some of the humorous greeting cards. When you find ones that feature your style of humor write down the name of the greeting card company and contact them for their submission requirements. Few people realize how profitable the greeting card industry can be. Although it may take several submissions before your humor is accepted, persistence will pay off. When it does, you can make as much as $50.00 per word for your sarcastic humor. For the best chance of success, target small to medium size greeting cards where the competition is less.</p>
<h3>Do Private Comedy Routines</h3>
<p>If you're willing to fine tune your comedy delivery and work up a routine, you can take it on the road and provide comedy acts for private functions such as bachelor parties, private parties, non-profit functions, and business functions. You may also be able to use your talents to launch a sassy and slightly irreverent singing telegram service. People love zany humor and laughter is a great stress reliever so your services should be in high demand.</p>
<h3>Write Comedy and Make Humorous Videos for Cracked.com</h3>
<p>Yes, there's an online site that will pay you for your funny, witty, and sarcastic comedy lines and videos. It's known as Cracked.com. The best way to see what they have to offer is to head over to their home page or visit their online forum and see if they're a good fit for your wit.</p>
<p>No matter what your talents, there's a way to make money from it. Sometimes it's just a question of thinking out of the box.</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FOpportunities%2FHow-to-Make-Money-by-Being-a-Smart-Aleck.296349"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FOpportunities%2FHow-to-Make-Money-by-Being-a-Smart-Aleck.296349" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:57:56 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>Entrepreneurship: You Must Have Faith in You</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/Business/Entrepreneurship-You-Must-Have-Faith-in-You.126651</link>
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<![CDATA[<p>Striking out on your own is scary and involves taking a leap of faith.  You want to start a business but people around you are saying now is not the time; the country is in a recession and consumer confidence is low.  I say the country is depending on you who have not only guts but faith.  Entrepreneurs you must have faith in you and do not listen to the doubters and haters.  Strike a powerful blow for the economy and stake your claim in business.</p>
 <p>Does becoming an entrepreneur require a leap of faith?  Indeed, it does.  </em>Finding your niche, following your passion and recognizing you are an entrepreneur not an employee.  Working on the typical nine-to-five, bringing home the bacon <em>is not you</em>.  You know without a doubt you have talents, have great business intelligence and it is bursting within you.  What do you do-take a leap of faith and go ahead and start.</p>
 <p>People who feel they are stuck in limbo are not happy.  How can they be?  Entrepreneurs see more and want to do more.  If the entrepreneur in you screams to be released you will not be complete until you follow that inner leading.  Is it scary?  Yes.  Is it lonely?  Yes.  Is it worth it?  Yes.  It may be helpful for you to know according to the Small Business Administration small businesses makeup ninety-nine percent of all business and produce between sixty to seventy percent of the jobs in the United States.  The world is waiting for you to take that leap.</p>
 <p>There are several reasons to take the leap of faith.  Chiefly, you must believe in yourself.  Even when others cannot see your vision you must have faith.  That will not be easy and you may feel like it is not going to ever happen.  When your faith waivers dig deeper and press forward.  Draw inspiration by reading books and articles on how other successful businesspeople made it.  Remember faith is the evidence of things hoped for. Think of the opportunities you will be making for others.  There will jobs created, services and products that only you can provide.</p>
 <p>Faith is not a license for foolishness.  The Bible is full of sound business principles and provides models on how to be wise when conducting business.  One of my favorite scriptures is: And the LORD answered me, and said, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tables, that he may run that readeth it.”       HABAKKUK 2:2 King James Version   We heard it said before in many different ways, in nutshell, without a written plan we are planning to fail. The Bible also tells us that God is not opposed to wealth as matter of fact <strong>it is He</strong> that gives us the ability to get wealth.  Examine the Old and New Testaments and you will discover many business ideas, business ethics, and investment principles.  In that day, they searched for fertile soil to sow seeds and waited for the increase of the harvest.  Today we too search for fertile soil which comes in the form of studying the markets, finding our niche and cultivating professional relationships.</p>
 
 <p>In taking the entrepreneurial leap of faith you will need to research and search for right opportunities. Tell people who you are and how you or your services can benefit them then wait patiently for your harvest. In biblical times conditions were not always right and the harvest did not always yield the intended crop.  But they looked back over their work and assessed where they went wrong and corrected the problem.  You will find you too must reassess and make corrections.  </p>
 
 <p>After considering, planning and writing out those plans you might be looking for the opportunity. I will tell you-you will have to create that opportunity.  Depending on the situation you may have a product or service that no has thought of or maybe they do not have the guts to get it going.  Do not stop because it is hard or others are not agreeing.  Do not be reckless but be persistent.  Keep moving toward your vision.  You are not a dreamer you are a visionary. There is a difference.  The dreamer is given to notion of the ideals behind his dream but thinks it is only a dream while the visionary follows a quest to realizing what he has dreamed.  Entrepreneurs will focus on making dreams realities.</p>
 
 <p>Why throw away your ability to create from within?  What other creation on the earth has the capacity to create something out of nothing.  Who are the great creators, inventors and pioneers that come to your mind?  How many times did they fail or how long did it take before their dreams were realized?  It is not relevant who believes you will make it, what matters is that you will not be satisfied with yourself unless you try to make it happen. </p>
 
 <p>You will find people do not agree with your entrepreneurial endeavors.  There may be those closest to you.  Love ones  may not support your efforts.  Do not be deterred.  Sometimes it is best to keep your vision to yourself until it produces the harvest.  It is not that you do not want people close to you to share your journey.  At times, you have to travel solo.  Keeping the naysayers and dream stealers away from your visions might be a full-time job-but you will have to do it for the sakes of survival. You can leap further without excess weight.  Good luck.  See at the top.</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FBusiness%2FEntrepreneurship-You-Must-Have-Faith-in-You.126651"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FBusiness%2FEntrepreneurship-You-Must-Have-Faith-in-You.126651" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 03:54:56 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>Find a New Business Idea</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/Business/Find-a-New-Business-Idea.74688</link>
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<![CDATA[<h3>Solve problems!</h3>
 
<p>Try to solve your own problems. When more people suffer with the very same and similar problems, you have a challenge to find the solution. If you are an industrial owner, you can have a plan to organize a research program to find a solution in a logical manner.</p>
 
<h3>Logical thoughts!</h3>
 
<p>Logical thinking and listing of solutions out of a guess work will pave way for testing the solutions for a final clue. The laboratory tests and their confirmation about the suitability of the solution will allow you to produce on a mini scale.</p>
 
<h3>Take One Big problem!</h3>
 
<p>Let us take "mosquito menace" as a problem of annoyance and health hazard for your family. The repetition of this problem is confirmed in all the village homes, city apartments, public places and farm houses too. It is highly disrespectful social problem and the solution could be regarded as Noble prize winning formula!</p>
 
<h3>A serious logical guess work will give a list of proposed solutions for developing ideas.</h3>
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Drive away mosquitoes from your bedside or from the home during the limited sleeping hours!
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Prevent the entry of these mosquitoes into the house as uninvited guests!
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Do you want to escape by a protective cover by net, window screen or repellent cream?
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Why don't you kill them when they come to attack?
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Think about going to their dwelling place and fight till death.
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Are you going to use manually beating technique? Will you be going in for advanced technology like electrical, electronic, biological or chemical weapons?
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What could be the mass killing method? Do you want to have research at university level?
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Is that problem limited to your city, state or country? Would you need a discussion at United Nations level?
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Do you need to kill and destroy this insect race which is dinosaurian in action?
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Do you want to destroy them at their basics of breeding, say the physical place of breeding or genetics of breeding!
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<h3>Choose the best combinations!</h3>
 
<p>I know, now, you will select a choice between escaping from the mosquitoes and killing them as a noble cause. You will find out newer ways to analyze the chosen problem and finally to find out a product that helps you escape or to kill the dreadful insect. The newer product is then test marketed, branded, advertised and distributed in all the market channels to destroy the destroyer.</p>
 
<p>Your mission to find a new business idea is accomplished!</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FBusiness%2FFind-a-New-Business-Idea.74688"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FBusiness%2FFind-a-New-Business-Idea.74688" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:59:07 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>Start a Literary Agency Representing Web Content</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/Opportunities/Start-a-Literary-Agency-Representing-Web-Content.26792</link>
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<![CDATA[<p>We find very few literary agents who handle web content. This is certainly an area in which if you are interested in representing writers you can offer to represent their web content. </p>

<p>You can represent their web content to online markets, and/or you can offer to represent their web content for reprinting in local, national, and international print newspapers and magazines. </p>

<p>Of course, you must research the markets and potential markets. You can also contact these potential markets, showing them web content samples, and asking if they would be interested in becoming a reprint market for web content writings. If you have a number of interested markets, then you can offer your expertise as an agent to represent web content to these print markets. </p>
<p>As a literary agency representing web content, you would be among the first such literary agencies. </p>

<p>There are many excellent web content writers who would probably no doubt be interested in being your clients, especially in the international reprint market. </p>

<p>Advertise at classified ads websites such as Pif Magazine and various freelance writers websites. </p>

<p>You should also list your web content agency at writers.net. </p>

<p>As other literary agencies, you should not charge an upfront fee, but charge a commission if you sell the work. </p>

<p>Make sure that you have sufficient interested markets before offering your agency to the public. </p>

<p>You might start working privately with a few writers first to find out if you are right for this type of work, if you can sell the works, and if you have sufficient market interest, then if so you can offer to represent other clients. You can also limit your clients to the number of writers that you are able to work with. </p>

<p>Again, you should not charge upfront fees. If you think that a client web content needs to be rewritten or re-edited, then ask them to rewrite or re-edit. Those who purchase the web content for the print market, might ask again for a rewriting for print, and/or they might agree to publish directly as web content. </p>

<p>You can also set up a website including the type of web content available to the reprint market. Continue to research new reprint markets for web content. A brochure of web content writing samples can also be sent to potential clients. </p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FOpportunities%2FStart-a-Literary-Agency-Representing-Web-Content.26792"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FOpportunities%2FStart-a-Literary-Agency-Representing-Web-Content.26792" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:46:01 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>Getting Business Ideas</title>
<link>http://www.bizcovering.com/Business/Getting-Business-Ideas.27189</link>
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<![CDATA[<p>The best way to get ideas about starting your own business is to make a list of your interests, your hobbies, what you like to do, and what are your skills and expertise.</p>

<p>Also, make note of your type of personality, the type of work that is best for you.  Do you like to work with others?  Are you self-motivated and prefer working independently?</p>

<p>Once you make this list, and know the type of worker-personality that you have, then go over the list and consider your worker-personality to determine the type of business that would be best for you.</p>

<p>Then make a list of the types of companies that fit your interests and your worker-personality and companies/products that have already proven successful.  You should start here.</p>

<p>Any innovative business ideas should be founded on this base.</p>

<p>For example from this, you might decide that a consignment shop is the best type of company for you, a used CDs and DVDs store, an online instant store, a company that provides web content.</p>

<p>From this type of store or company as you base to generate income, then you can innovate on various business ideas.</p>

<p>You can also put "business ideas" in your search engine, and then make a list of the types of business ideas suggested by your search engine.</p>
<p>Do any of these business ideas fit your interests or expertise?  If you're interested specifically in online business ideas, put "online business ideas" in your search engine.</p>

<p>First research the type of businesses that you're interested.  Get books on the subject.  Talk to people who already have these types of businesses.  Visit their websites online.  Study the types of products and services that are offered by their companies.  Talk to the experts.  Learn as much as you can about the type of business that you're interested in and learn how to market the products and services of that type of company.  If you're not an expert yourself, hire experts.  Also, note that many business experts offer free advice, where online or offline in business organization and associations or various Chambers of Commerce.  There are also many free business publications and brochures.  Make use of this free advice.</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FBusiness%2FGetting-Business-Ideas.27189"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bizcovering.com%2FBusiness%2FGetting-Business-Ideas.27189" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2006 05:13:06 PST</pubDate></item>
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