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60 Second Ideas - This is Your Life

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How do you want to be remembered? What do you cherish in this life? Are you a living legend? Today’s idea once again comes from the Netherlands.
Almost everyone has a strong desire to be remembered for eternity and now thanks to the Internet, you can do it your way.

Eternity4all founded just last month by the Netherlands Bert van Dam allows anyone to immortalize him or herself for the world to see and for all of eternity. For $300, the company lets users post in their own personal web space on the Eternity4all website up to 10 photographs, 3 videos, 3 text areas, and a personal history page. Users can update whenever they wish.

While $300 maybe a little pricy, this idea is wide open for anyone who wants to seize it. Tweak, tinker and put your own stamp on the idea and you could be seeing pennies from heaven. Local or Country specific versions of the eternity4u concept should work well, not to mention, the potential for partnering opportunities with organizations like insurance companies and hospice agencies.

Today’s Show Links
http://eternity4all.com

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60 Second Ideas - Quick Study Money

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Here at 60 Second Ideas, we strive to find simple yet brilliant start-up ideas that do not cost an arm and a leg to get started. Information is a hot commodity these days. Today’s idea shows us a new twist on selling and packaging information and it has nothing to do with ebooks or other online distribution methods.

There’s gold in them there hills…or at least in mining information and presenting it as laminated reference guides.

Bobbie Ford created a simple flow chart of what she had learned in her Constitutional Law class – telling husband, John, that it gave her an a roadmap of the course. Bobbie also told John some of her classmates wanted copies. Could Bobbie's quick reference study aid and others like it be sold in law school bookstores? John thought so and six months later, the Ford's published 6 law school study aids. Today, BarCharts is the largest provider in the world of quick study reference materials, selling over 21 million copies on over 250 subjects.

At 250 topics, BarCharts has not even come close to scratching the surface of available information perfect for laminated guides. Get yourself a $250 laminating machine, create a handful of useful subjects and you could be seeing some Quick Study Money.

Laminated reference guides is a wide open idea with endless possibilities. One could even offer custom guides to a variety of businesses, schools or other organizations.

Give it some thought.

Today’s Show Links
http://barcharts.com/

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60 Second Ideas - Top 10 Small Business Blogs

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Blogs are all the rage these days and there is a lot out there for small and home based business owners, but it is not always easy to find the best small business blogs amidst all the clutter. It’s not hard to waste a lot of time looking for the good stuff. So we set out to discover the most useful blogs for small business owners. The result is our Top 10 Small Business Blogs for the first quarter of 2006.  Our Top 10 list is in no particular order.

Escape Velocity  Owner Flemming Funch has original posts and links to excellent articles about home-based Internet business, website traffic building, success and motivation. Recent posts include Highest Paying Google AdWords, The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites, and The Entrepreneurial Game. Definitely worth your time to browse around a bit.

The Entrepreneurial Mind - written by the Director of Belmont University's Center for Entrepreneurship, Jeff Cornwall, this is not a stuffy academic journal by any means. This blog looks at everything from how current political issues affect small business mixed in with solid advice for any entrepreneur. Recent Posts include Good Advice, Bad Statistics, Entre-Boomers, and Go Patriots! - a terrific article on how George Mason and it's unlikely run in the NCAA March Madness Basketball Tournament is the result of smart entrepreneurial thinking.

Entrepreneurs Journey  - produced by Yaro Starak, an interesting young entrepreneur from Australia. The blog posts useful articles aimed at starting and running an Internet business, interviews with other entrepreneurs and podcasts. Recent posts include What Is The 80/20 Rule And Why It Will Change Your Life, How I Have Made Money Online, The Top 8 Search Engine Optimization Techniques.

Marketing Experiments Blog - The Blog of Dr. Flint McGlaughlin and his research team at marketingexperiments.com, this is far and away the best website and blog for providing detailed information and research with real life case examples of what really works in the world of Internet Marketing. This blog is an absolute must read. Recent posts include How People Look at Web Pages, What to Include on Your Home Page, and Blogging – A Natural Starting Place for Transparent Marketing.

Flyte: Web Marketing Strategies for Small Business - Rich Brooks who builds and markets websites offers practical tips and techniques in the world of online marketing. Mixed with humorous posts on a variety of topics from Al Jezeera interviewing Donald Rumsfeld to How to write a Crank Letter, this blog has an upbeat feel. Recent Small Business Advice posts include Online Lead Generation, and How to Get More Business From Your Current Clients, and Work-Life Balance for the Entrepreneur. Very well done blog.

Seize Your Entrepreneurial Dreams - Businessinfoguide.com's Stephanie Chandler blog is loaded with hands on practical advice, tips, and resources to help grow your business whether your business is online or a local service or store. Stephanie's well written blog also includes excellent information for authors. Recent posts include Strategic Alliances: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Get Your Product to Market on Any Budget, and 20 Great Ways to Market Your Business Locally.

PowerHomeBiz Small & Home Business Blog  - Power Home Biz Co-Founder Isabel Isidro posts solid down to earth advice for home business entrepreneurs. A unique feature of this blog is she answers questions from visitors to the powerhomebiz.com website. Recent posts include How to Monetize a Content-Based Website, Learning from the American Inventor, and 7 Steps for Improving Your Email Marketing.

Duct Tape Marketing - John Jantsch gets a lot of rave reviews for his Duct Tape Marketing Blog and we agree. What makes Jantsch really unique though, is he has pulled together some the best blogs for small and home based business under his Duct Tape umbrella. We especially like Mark Beck's Internet Marketing Unleashed and Georgia Patrick's Customers Count.

Small Business Today - Businessknowhow.com founder Janet Attard's blog posts comments on news, trends, and information to help you run your small business more effectively. Brief and to the point, this blog has a wealth of information and will not waste your time, Recent posts include Banner Clickthroughs, Help Customers Find You, and Marketing Strategy: Give Old Products a New Twist.

60 Second Ideas Blog – Produced by Michael Brooks and Michael Donahue...that's us...this unique video format blog produces two shows per week to inspire small business owners, home based business owners, and budding entrepreneurs with proven ideas that be tweaked, copied, borrowed or pilfered to make more money.

Congratulations to all of our 2006 Top 10 Small Biz Blogs. If you have or know of a blog you would like us to consider for our Top 10 Blogs for the Second Quarter of 2006, please write us at [email protected]

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