The Niche Beat
Fish Flops Supports Wildlife Organization
Fish Art Contest Contest open to public, private and home schooled students k-12 Top winners will receive merchandise from teenager Madison Nicole’s line of colorful aquatic footwear. Press Release Describes contest http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/releases/?req=20140108a Texas.gov Education, Art & Conservation http://www.tpwd.texas.gov/spdest/visitorcenters/tffc/education/fish_art/ Views: 27
How a Dream Inspired Words to a Hit Song
Illustration by the Colorist Casey Klahn New School Color thecolorist.blogspot.com Wildfire Aspiring entrepreneurs who literally dreamt their way into a successful business have been featured in earlier posts. Here’s an intriguing story I discovered last week about the business of music. Asleep on his friend’s floor after a grueling collaborative session in the late 1960’s, […]
Choosing an Unlikely Niche
Talk Show Insights Lawrence Brownlee Despite naysayers, the 5’6” African-American tenor discusses his choice of music and his classical niche instead of a career in law despite not being the typical opera singer. Brownlee Tavis Smiley November 2013 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/lawrence-brownlee/ NPR April 2007 Lawrence Brownlee: A Rising Star Arrives at the Met http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9722214 Martha Plimton Award-winning […]
Small Unique Businesses
New York Originals The award-winning PBS series profiles mom and pop retailers that point out a number of takeaway lessons: All skills cannot be outsourced overseas You can compete successfully against cheaply made imported products if you counter with quality and skill and if there are enough people willing to pay for a quality product. See […]
Trading Gold Nuggets For Chocolate
Rethinking Dreams of Wealth Etienne Guittard traveled to the United States during the California gold rush of the 1800’s to seek his fortune in gold. He brought French chocolate to trade for mining supplies, but after three years of searching the foothills, Guittard had nothing to show for his labor. Ironically, Guittard had unwittingly engaged […]
Fish Flops
Aptitudes in Action + Marketplace Smarts Fish Flops Featured in major Korean Newspaper! http://news.mk.co.kr/newsRead.php?year=2013&no=967527 You can’t make a living with art. Sez who? The designer behind the Fish Flops company and the footwear sold at Nordstrom is 15-year self-taught […]
Aptitudes of Leonardo da Vinci
Lessons for Aspiring Entrepreneurs da Vinci Imagination Mona-Lisa Device for Making Sequins Water Lifting Device Flying Machine Crossbow Machine The chocolate chip cookie seems to be the only thing da Vinci didn’t invent while dreaming up ideas for everything from robots to flying machines using nature for inspiration. The Renaissance painter was known for […]
Next Food Network TV Star
The Best Niche Always Wins As has been the case each year, talent is only a small part of the competition. The winner must not only present a fresh niche that will attract the right viewers in sufficient numbers to make it profitable for the network. If a contestant has a persona and point of […]
5 Niche Books That Sparked New Business Ideas
Nature, Novels & Mythology Book The next time you browse through a business book be aware that the genre’ is not the only kind of information source that may hold answers if you are looking for new ideas. Potential entrepreneurs have used novels, even the Bible, for direction, inspiration and creative ideas of various kinds. […]