I’m doing the good neighbour thing at the moment and watering a neighbours garden plants while they are away and as always when I’ve got some time to myself, it got me thinking about business opportunities. I know my neighbours have invested quite a bit of their time and money getting their garden to look [...]

ITV West are currently showing a programme called Risky Business that follows Cosmo Fry and Lulu Anderson through the creation of The Big Sleep Hotel in Cheltenham . Their plan is simple take one old, rather ugly tax office and turn it into a chic designer hotel - with reasonable prices.

So far in the series [...]

Whatever your Internet business idea choosing a domain name is going to impact on it’s success or failure. The domain name is the name that visitors will type into their browser to visit your site, for example this sites domain name is businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk. Domain names come in to parts, the name and the Top Level [...]

Are you, under the age of 35 and runing a UK business with a rural theme? If so you could enter the Young Rural Entrepreneur of 2007!
The competition is being run by Field and Lycetts, they have teamed up to find an outstanding individual whose entrepreneurial spirit has led them to start up a successful [...]

Alienware is apparently now offering the Area 51 m5550 laptop as a “Quick Ship” that is they promise to ship within two business days of payment confirmation and validation. The configuration for the Quick Ship laptop is as follows:

15.4″ glossy screen
Core 2 Duo 2GHz processor and 2GB of memory
ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics
802.11g wireless
160GB 5400 [...]

The often used term Web 2.0 is said to be all about social-networking sites, that is sites where users interact with the site owner (blogs) or with each other on community/networking sites. In other words while the initial dot com bubble focused on ecommerce, current Internet businesses tend to focus on building communities, for example [...]

The Cereal Bowl is a new franchise based in the USA. Founded in 2004 it is a new bread of cafe, one which gives the customer the ability to mix and match their own cereal. To me it sounds like the Subway of cereal. It was start by two guys who decided to turn their [...]

Have you ever found yourself desperately looking for a public toilet in a new city? I certainly have and sometimes there just isn’t a friendly stranger on hand to ask - but what if you could phone a friend, or at very least text them? Well that’s what a new San Francisco based business does.

MizPee [...]

Readers Question:

Hi John, I would like to know, what you think, is the best way to approach a business with a new idea or concept. I find that I have a knack for coming up with really new, and profitable business ideas. (I would like to point out that I’m not solely relying on friends [...]

July was to be my Internet Business Opportunities month, a month in which I planned to cover a wide range of topics to do with starting, running and growing an Internet business. Unfortunately while I’d nicely planned out the content and arranged several guest posts I had not factored enough leeway into my schedule to [...]