Mass produced services are only economical at a fixed location where installed equipment can be used to save time in the service. The other end of the spectrum is customized service at a location where the customer wants it to be performed. Simple services like automotive repairs are almost always done at a garage or repair center since some of […]
101 New Business Ideas for Retirees: At The Customer’s Location
Aquarium Toilet
Born Rich: Restroom built into the side of a giant aquarium filled with exotic fish, sounds bewildering, though, great relief for those trees in the wild. Hunting for a restroom to quit that crap at the beachside in the city of Akashi, halt, take a plunge into the waters, coz the Mumin Papa Café offers its customers the luxury of […]
Get Your Grandma A Christmas Wii
Shiny Shiny: In a survey that was conducted by Barchester Healthcare care homes – not a gadget site! – it transpired that gadgets are number three out of the top five gifts elderly relatives and friends would like to receive. Ahead of those were only luxury food hampers and, at number one, experiences like yoga sessions, makeovers and hot air […]
101 New Business Ideas for Retirees: Services for Seniors
You can’t read any magazine without seeing some reference to the effects of the coming retirement of the baby boom generation. That is just the type of opportunity that entrepreneurs are looking for to create a new business around. Think of all of the services these people will need. Some of them will need to have more of the work […]
Go Green Christmas Tree
Inhabitat: This the season to be jolly, and if you happen to be in New York, green! This year New York’s finest Christmas landmark is going green in the spirit of the Christmas season. For the first time in its history, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, will be getting a new set of energy efficient LED Christmas lights which will […]
Fresh Water For Your Dog
The Red Ferret Journal: Automatic Refill Dog Water Bowl. Dang, that’s cool, Marge. Now if we can only find something that does the same thing for dog food, we’ll never have to see that mangy mutt again. This 1.8 gallon automatic stainless waterer attaches to any garden hose and provides consistent fresh water for your pet at all times. The […]
Digital Wallet
Gadget4Girls: Do you already have a personal strategy of saving or spending money? Well, if not get a personal assistant! Namely a product that promised to solve the portable-storage problem once and for all. Let me introduce you the Handheld Digital Wallet by Veronica Vail. Call it a planner, an organizer, a manager – what ever you want. This handheld […]
101 New Business Ideas for Retirees: Specialize, Specialize, Specialize
There are a lot of businesses out there that are competing for the customers. You are looking for a way to attract a loyal few customers for your small retirement business. You are also trying to attract them with some unique feature of your business instead of doing a large amount of advertising and the billing that comes from advertising. […]
Schedule A Birthday Card
Springwise: While there are plenty of reminder services online that help people remember anniversaries and birthdays, few connect to the physical world. Which is where Boston-based Jack Cards comes in: a company that delivers pre-scheduled, ready-to-go greeting cards to the card sender, just in time for them to add a personal message and drop the card in the mailbox. Customers […]
101 New Business Ideas for Retirees: Hobby Business
Most people think that working at your hobby would make the best retirement business that they can think about. While I concur with this thinking there are a few warnings that come with this option. Think about your hobby. Are there supplies that you regularly have to buy? Are these supplies easy to find locally? Can they be cheaply shipped […]