I’m delighted to announce the launch of the Business Opportunities And Ideas Carnival.

Every two weeks, on Mondays, I will host the Business Opportunities And Ideas Carnival which will provide, in one single and probably large post, a digest of the posts other business bloggers have submitted for consideration during the previous two weeks.
TopicsSubmissions will be [...]

I’ve decided to update the Business Opportunities and Ideas theme to make the site easier to read, and hopefully much better looking!
Please let me know if you have any problems with the new theme and please feel free to let me know what you think of it.
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I read over on Stuff 4 Restaurants that a new restaurant in Nuremberg, Germany is claiming to be the first waiter-less restaurant in the world. You place your order by touch screen and it descends on rails from the kitchen above along the steel tubes direct to your table. You pay via a credit card [...]

Yesterday was the fifth time this year that I’ve been undercharged in the local Tesco Express because of staff error. Now Tesco may only be 68 pence worse off because of it but if you factor in the other five times a couple of which have cost them over a pound then it’s around £5 [...]

Why We Buy is based on tens of years of experience observing shoppers throughout hundreds of retail stores. In the book Paco Underhill reveals what he has learned about the shopping behaviour and habits of consumers. Alongside this he provides details of the common mistakes made by retailers and the successful tactics that retailers can [...]

If you want to work from home and fit your working life around your family instead of the other way round. A popular choice in recent years has been to start a home publishing business. Such businesses usually publish a local magazine or directory aimed at a specific niche.

While it’s possible to pursue such a [...]

You can’t see them so how do you sell them? That’s the problem with services.

Writes Beckwith in his preface. He goes on to explain that the book addresses the problem of service marketing, in other words the problem of selling the invisible. If you or your business sells a service - which in todays [...]

I’m often asked how I come up with so many new business ideas so here are some tips for coming up with your very own business ideas.
1. Expect to have ideas . If you believe you’re incapable of coming up with ideas then you won’t come up with any. Put aside any negativity about yourself [...]

The Daily Blog Tips group writing project has just ended and there are several entries that I feel will be of interest to entrepreneurs:

6 Tips to Generate Outstanding Ideas - Some great tips that could help you generate the right business idea for you.
10 Top Tips For Finding Internet Business Ideas - My tips on [...]

The Ft.com is reporting that the Bank of England has done a u-turn on bailing out the banks:

British banks will be able to borrow from the Bank of England for three months using mortgages as collateral, the central bank announced in an extraordinary U-turn.
The humiliating move for Mervyn King, Bank governor was announced on Wednesday [...]