You will certainly pay for your share of the economic stimulus package over the coming decade but will you collect your share? Fortunes are made in times like this so what kind of net can you cast to collect the maximum amount of stimulus that the government is about to sprinkle all over America?
Go through the various line items and ask yourself “who, what, when, where, and how” will this money be spent. Go Deep. Are there opportunities to get in front of some of this money?
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If you look at the human body as a machine we have several input and output devices. Our fastest input devices are our eyes and ears. Our fastest output devices are our fingers (physical movement) and speech. We currently use 3 of these four mediums already when interfacing with machines however our speech remains neglected.
The historical complications for a machine in dealing with slight variations in dialect have made this type of input more difficult than a mouse / keyboard combination and so we build to accommodate that interface but I believe we are selling ourselves short in the long run.
Imagine for a moment that in order to visit a website you had to first acquire the IP address from either the site owner or someone close to the site owner then save it off in your browser with a meaningful name to you like “Bill Parker Blog number 3”. That would be completely [...]
Imagine a service where you can type in your zip code and see live which local bars have all the hottest people hanging out at that moment.
I imagine a “Hot or Not” like service where people can use their mobile phones to upload, review and vote on images. Your at a bar and see a hot hostess or girl so you snap a pic and submit it to a web service. That image immediately becomes available for user voting. Based on some point system all bars can then be rated so those with the best looking people rise to the top. This would make great discussion for those hanging out at the pubs; meanwhile the data mining and front end regular website possibilities are endless. Individual bars would certainly pay a premium for placement or attention in order to attract more folks to their establishments. There are a ton of ways to monetize this service.
If you could use a little motivation and some new ideas try the following:
1) Clear your schedule for the night, grab a notebook and head on over to your local book store or library. I prefer to go to my local Borders because they have a coffee shop and all the latest books from Seth Godin and my other favorite authors. Rifle through their books for an hour or two and take notes. Think about how you could implement what you are learning into your business(es).
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I don’t gamble, it’s just not worth is and it’s a waste of time… with one exception, Super Bowl Squares. Today while purchasing a couple squares I thought about how you have to be in the game to have any chance at all at winning.
My attention turned to our State Lottery. I don’t play the Lotto but what if I could just give $52 and have someone else purchase on my behalf one ticket per week for the entire year? I think I’d play then. You have to be in it to win it. The numbers or scan of the actual ticket would have to be published in advance and available on a website for me to monitor before I’d be comfortable. The legal work would be intense, this government gaming industry is highly regulated but could it be done? If so, could I build this service? Could I place proxies in each state to purchase tickets to folks all over America could play any lottery in any state?
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Tracing cables up and down racks, in and out of cages, and under the raised floor while maintaining some degree of confidence that the cable you are about to unplug is in fact the one you started with is a crap-shoot at best and a costly mistake at worst.
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Below is a summary page I have used during a final review of the ecommerce class I teach. In this class we take a small amount of startup cash, collectively choose our “widget”, and sell it via an online retail store. This has not been specify written to address all options for online ecommerce however it should still serve as a good path for you to walk through mentally when considering any new project.