I’ve had one of my software developer friends visiting for the last few days. As usual we’ve spent most of our time talking about either software development, or business (or both - the business of software development).

Despite being geeks we’ve both been long term users of Microsoft Windows, but now we’re finding ourselves drawn to [...]

They may be clichés but the sayings:
One man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure.

and:
Where there’s muck there’s brass.

make a very valid point. There are hundreds, if not thousands of business opportunities relating to scrap (be that household waste, commercial waste, industrial byproducts). With the increased emphasis that governments are placing on recycling and the resulting legislation [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few weeks you’ll have seen, read or heard all sorts of news about swine flu. At times some of the reporting has made it sound like we’re facing a repeat of previous flu pandemics and the prospect of millions of deaths worldwide. Scary stuff and [...]

Over the last couple of months I’ve been experimenting with growing my own fruit, vegetables and salad. It turns out I’m pretty good with lettuce - we’re now eating it with more or less every meal - but not so good with strawberries. We’re still waiting to see how everything else does. I’m not really [...]

The picture on the right is of our dog, Otis (named after Otis Reading, not the company that makes lifts). He’s a boxer, and at the time of the photo was only four months old. He’s now approaching three years old, but still just as cute, curious and energetic.
We’ve had him since he was [...]

Now that I’m a regular gym rat I’ve started quizzing the personal trainers in the gym about their businesses - I just can’t help myself I quiz everyone I meet about their business! I was surprised to find that even personal instructors in a small sleepy Wiltshire town can charge up to £65 per hour. [...]

My name is Thor Holt, I am a Personal Trainer and Life Coach based in Scotland but with clients in various corners of the UK. With the inspiration of Business Opportunities and Ideas I have created an eBook business to inspire those with a love for fitness and exercise to make cash from their passion. [...]

Three years ago we decided that we’d had enough of the seemingly endless bad weather and the constant stream of bills through the door in the UK that took so much pleasure out of life. Our kids had grown up and fled the nest. It was now or never!
After the most traumatic of life [...]

Unless you’ve made a stoic effort over the last eighteen months to avoid being exposed to the news you are sure to have noticed that the banks have managed to get themselves into rather a pickle, creating the credit crunch, which has helped fuel a global slowdown leading us all into a recession. As a [...]

If you’ve a head for numbers, have some bookkeeping or accounting experience, or even if you’re a part (or fully) qualified accountant who is looking to go it alone, then starting a bookkeeping business might be just the business opportunity for you. Doing the bookkeeping for a small business is not something that most entrepreneurs [...]