Business Ideas

Although there's currently a battle brewing over whether they should be called pet owners or pet guardians, there's no quarrel about the fact [...]

Nancy Lindemeyer had a vision — a vision not of the future, but of the past. That vision paid off nicely and Victoria, the magazine she edited [...]

Are you living in a place that you love, a place that attracts visitors? If so, you could be sitting on a logical profit center — the proverbial [...]

My flight to London had barely lifted off when my seatmate and I began to chat. I soon learned that the handsome man seated next to me was a [...]

Peter Leshak is a writer and handyman who spends part of his time fighting forest fires. When a television reporter asked him about this [...]

On a steamy July Saturday several years ago, I accepted an invitation to accompany a friend to the bridal shop where she had chosen a gown. As I [...]

Like thousands of people, Tim and Nina Zagat loved dining out. Unlike thousands of people, the Zagats found a way to turn that passion into a [...]

Several years ago, I had a lovely long-term consulting assignment which kept me both busy and solvent.  One morning I woke up and realized that [...]

Jan Dean and I became friends because of our mutual love of books. Several years ago, Jan was doing conferences and workshops in northern Texas [...]

"I know what I like to do," the little thinker smugly says, "but I couldn't possibly make money doing it." Many of us carry around a belief [...]

My local tv news just featured a booming business called Vegas Errands. The owner is a young woman who responded to an ad on Craigslist, and [...]

Many would-be entrepreneurs get frightened off by the thought of marketing. They tremble at the erroneous notion that marketing is about finding [...]

Classes on "How to Become a Private Detective" have enjoyed great popularity in adult ed programs and I think I know why. For as long as I can [...]

There are so many selves in everybody and to explore and exploit just one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative process. ~ James [...]

In my scrapbook is a page of Making a Living Without a Job memorabilia that I’ve titled “The Class That Became a Business.” Indeed, it was [...]

Helping others get clutter under control is, it would appear, an opportunity whose time has come. The motivations for leading a less cluttered [...]

It's been 18 years since I first began teaching adults and I still find it an invigorating and profitable experience. Teaching adults has taken [...]

For years, would-be entrepreneurs have been advised to "find a need and fill it." Sometimes those needs are hiding in plain sight. A couple of [...]

Shortly before the end of the year, I was talking to Karyn Ruth White and the subject of resolutions came up. “I don’t really make them,” she [...]

There was no shortage of candidates for the Most Annoying Person Award that I was mentally planning to bestow. At the top of the short list was [...]