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GreenGraffiti creates advertising on dirty city streets and walls using the clean, green power of plain water. Armed with just a template and a high-pressure water sprayer, the company has “cleaned” advertising messages out of the dirt on behalf of …read more »

Travis Creek found himself out of work soon after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

As a skilled worker in structural steel, he felt the impact of a slowing economy. He was living in Houston, and building projects had significantly decreased.

To fill the time, he started making smoker barbecue grills, and he got a friend and a family member to help him.

“I was just killing time waiting on the structural steel business to come back,” Creek said. “About six months after we started the barbecue pits, our (structural steel) contracts in the Houston area started calling again, and we had to turn them down. We had too much work to take on anything else at that point.”

Creek, 35, sold his first barbeque pit on eBay for $800. …read more »

An Army man of eight years, Ron Johnson figures there is a right way and a wrong way to do just about everything.

So when he started his own business after being laid off from 25 years in the telecommunication industry, Johnson read everything he could about his new field and exhaustively researched the competition.

Then he named his business Ron John Poo-B-Gone. …read more »

So you think your place is small? One night recently, a group of architecture students staying up late in a loft in Brooklyn took to amusing themselves by stuffing a mattress into a hole cut into the wall above a bedroom door. Then they tried the mattress out for comfort. Not half bad! It occurred to one of them, Nick Freeman, that people might pay money to call that elevated mattress home.

So Mr. Freeman posted an ad on the Web site Craigslist: “$35 — elevated mattress-sized space between rooms.” He used a minimalist pitch. “Opening between hall and room available for long/short-term use, accessible by ladder, sheets and pillows not provided.” The ad went up around noon, and by the end of that day, Mr. Freeman had a dozen potential takers. …read more »

Everyone has things lying around that they no longer have a use for. Many of these things have great value to others. Even though many people know that eBay is there, they do not know how it works or they just do not feel like messing with it, this is where you come in. …read more »

As the EU’s restaurants, bars and clubs gradually become smoke-free, cigarette butts on the doorsteps of such establishments are an increasingly common sight. Belgium-based “Ashvertising” hopes to make the best of that bad habit with an outdoor device that combines an ashtray with a medium for advertising. …read more »

Germans are lining up to rent farm animals to help with the gardening as part of a new green scheme.

Werner Kiwitt, who runs an ecological park in Schleswig-Holstein, is offering sheep to cut the grass and ducks to eat the slugs. …read more »

Most people today are so busy that the last thing they want to do is wait in line to get an oil change or car wash. So why not develop a car care service that goes to the customer’s home? …read more »

Hey students, here’s some great part-time small business ideas to make you some extra cash. You don’t have to be penniless anymore or bother Mom and Dad every time you need some money.

It is a fact of life that students are notorious for being cash-strapped most times. But it needn’t have to be that way. With some clever thinking, some hard work and perseverance, a part-time business can be a solution. Here are a few opportunities that I’d recommend to the student. These businesses can be started with little or no capital and requires little or no training. They are virtually certain to produce extra income and can be sold once the student graduates and starts a full-time job.

1. Typing Service

Provide a typing service to other students. Offer to type their assignments, resumes, thesis, etc.

2. Auto Detailing

If you have a flair for graphics and design and you love cars, then you might consider offering a detailing service to vehicle owners. Apart from putting on stunning graphics, you could also detail company vehicles and trucks by putting on logos, signs or advertisements.

3. Auto Protection/Car Sound Installation

If you are good with electronics and sound, you may consider this very lucrative opportunity. You can source alarm units or sound equipment direct from the manufacturer or wholesaler and put a small mark-up on it if you like but your best income would be from the actual installation charge.

4. Tutor

If you are really good in a certain subject, you can tutor school kids in your area. You could either do this at their home or yours. You will charge a rate per hour. …read more »

If you’ve ever been in an office, especially cluttered with little cubicles, you know how dark and dreary they can be, no matter how much light is pouring through the windows. Imagine spending the majority of your waking time in such an atmosphere.

Now you can make corporate America a little more cheerful by renting plants to local businesses. It’s easy! Your clients choose the type of plants they want to rent, you deliver them to the office. …read more »

Dionna Mustybrook suspects you’ve got a bad habit but don’t even know it: Using your foot to kick open the car door.

“I think everybody does it at one time or another,” says the 33-year-old Sacramentan, who’s devised a simple invention to avoid the resulting scuff marks: “The Doorkick,” a soft pad that’s affixed to a car door’s inside panel. …read more »

Texas baker Suzanne Maxwell built her “Lovin’ Oven Bakery” on wedding cakes, but in the past few years she’s been delving into divorce cakes.

Maxwell developed the concept with the help of a customer.

“She said I really want a wedding cake, but I’m getting a divorce,” Maxwell explained.

And so it began. …read more »

From Germany this time, Sonntagmorgen (German for Sunday morning) sells made-to-order coffee blends online. Customers can choose from nine regional varieties and set their own blend ratios. …read more »

There are many things you can find that can be sold. Gold and precious stones come to mind, but it doesn’t end there. Get up into that attic to see what treasures you find, and then check out some of the more unusual ways to go treasure hunting below.

1. Hunting Diamonds In Parking Lots

The temperature changes your jewelry experiences getting in and out of cars and buildings cause diamonds to come loose from their settings. This makes parking lots one of the most common places that diamonds are lost. One older couple I read about become so good at telling the difference (from a distance!) between the sparkle of a diamond and bits of glass that they regularly take early morning walks in mall parking lots for a second income. …read more »

I have put together a quick list of 5 ways to make money that could actually work but are just a little geeky. Enjoy

1. Wii On Wheels

If you haven’t played a Nintendo Wii you’re really missing out. It has really cool wireless controllers that let you play games like bowling and tennis where you do the full motion in the game as if you were actually playing the sport.

Imagine having a Wii on a cart with wheels and hooked up to a TV screen that you could put in front of a mall or movie theater and charge people to play the game. Everyone passing by would wonder what all the commotion is and would, in return, bring you more customers. Fascinating idea, I’m sure you could make it work! …read more »