Business Opportunities Weblog

With the start of camping season upon us, I’m reminded of this business idea that Loyd from Yosemite Blog sent to me a few years ago:

Here's a great part time business to start&hellip. camping spot savers! On major holidays they go in a few days in advance, set up a tent, and camp there until the payee gets there.

If they get a good spot the payee could ''tip'' them. We could get college students and high school kids above 18 to do it.

Maybe charge about $7.50 on top of the campsite fee not including tip. Pay in advance credit card deal.

Because a lot of campgrounds are first come, first serve and don't offer reservations or if they do they book quickly like the ones in Yosemite.

Photo by IDAK/ShutterStock.

When you see the doctors standing in front of the whiteboard with all of the patients and surgeries mapped out on Grey’s Anatomy, that’s real life. Would you try to run your company from a whiteboard?

Xylemed thinks you shouldn’t either. They’ve created a program that will replace the whiteboards hospital use to track their patients and surgeries.

Xconomy:

Nursing supervisors use a hand-written markerboard to keep track of the current roster of patient names, doctors treating them, procedures they're undergoing, and even critical contact information. Xylemed hopes to bring this into the 21st century with a software application that can replace all that scribbling and erasing. It's already being used at several locations, including Harborview Medical Center and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

PR Web:

Dogs Love Running! is a small business success story. What started out as a one-man show is now a pet franchise opportunity available across the nation.

“We were looking for input on how to fine-tune our ideas,” says Reh. “The US Small Business Administration has free business counseling through their SCORE program so we started there first.”

John went on to meet about 4 different counselors over the course of a few weeks. Each time, ideas were hammered out in finer and finer detail. The end result is Dogs Love Running!, a professional pet care service that does not only traditional “dog walking”, but they’ll also run with dogs, too. Aside from the dog running/walking services, they also do pet sitting and can create customized private pet boarding and daycare solutions.

Video below.