Friday, August 6, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
Green cleaning product sold in cartridges, diluted at home with tap water
What a great idea - and they are cdn too!
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Green cleaning product sold in cartridges, diluted at home with tap water
Forward-thinking manufacturers are working to decrease the amount of packaging used for their products. Some offer concentrated formulas, others sell refills in bags instead of containers. Now, a Canadian startup has come up with an innovative solution we hadn't yet spotted: refill cartridges that consumers dilute at home, with tap water.
Developed by Planet People, the iQ line of household cleaning products features small cartridges of plant-based concentrate. Consumers fill a spray bottle with ordinary tap water and pop in a cartridge. The coloured concentrate visibly mixes with the water, and voila: a full bottle of cleaner. iQ comes in four varieties: glass, bathroom, floor and all-purpose cleaner. All made with non-toxic and environmentally sustainable ingredients.
Besides reducing packaging and plastic waste, the system obviously cuts down on transportation, reducing fuel consumption and vehicle emissions. And—appealing to people's wallets as much as their conscience—iQ passes on packaging and transportation savings to its customers. iQ starter kits, which include a spray bottle full of solution and a first refill cartridge, retail for approximately CAD 6.49, while cartridges are approximately CAD 2.79. The products are currently available from natural food stores in Canada, and from Hannaford and Sweetbay in the US. If we weren't so busy reporting on new business ideas, we'd snap up international distribution rights ourselves ;-)
Website: www.iqclean.com
Contact: www.iqclean.com/contact_us.php
Justin
Site aggregates offers from 'deal a day' providers
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Site aggregates offers from 'deal a day' providers
Bargain-minded consumers have no shortage of "deal a day" sites to choose from—the challenge now is staying abreast of them all. That means it's time for a little aggregation, which is just what Dealradar offers.
Launched in May, Chicago-based Dealradar is a free service that finds and reports on unique daily-deal offers from sites like Groupon and LivingSocial in more than 60 cities across the US, the UK, Australia and Canada. Drawing from more than 80 daily deal sites, Dealradar follows, indexes and classifies local deals and then delivers them to consumers in an aggregated manner, clearly organized by the type of product or service offered. Consumers can subscribe to Dealradar via email, Twitter, Facebook or RSS; a mobile app is also available. Either way, by using the service consumers stand to save the time it would take to peruse 15 or more individual daily e-mails to see every local offer, Dealradar says. When they find an offer they like, users can simply click on it to be directed to the site offering the deal; if they make a purchase, the partner site involved then shares an unspecified portion of those proceeds with Dealradar.
With benefits not just for consumers but also for deal sites and the advertisers they represent, Dealradar promises to offer one of those all-too-rare win-win-wins. Coming soon, the company says, are expanded options for advertisers and partners; new cities are continually being added as well. Retailers, service providers and deal-site operators: one to get involved in! All others: one to emulate in your part of the deal-hungry world...? (Related: Online retailers install widget to enable group buying — Shoppers team up for better deals.)
Website: www.dealradar.com
Contact: www.dealradar.com/contact_us
Spotted by Chicago Sun-Times via Jim Stewart
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
The Conversation: Old Spice Guy, Isaiah Mustafa, Becomes a Viral Hit With Shower Videos - ABC News
Great example of social media marketing - old spice commercials
http://abcnews.go.com/m/screen?id=11165908
Justin
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Friday, July 9, 2010
Business idea: high tech gym
Every machine you use tracks your activity: time, reps, calories, etc.
Just key in your Id and uploads to your profile. Classes - same way. Eg cardio, aerobics class. Step onto mat and login.
Info uploaded to database that you can access via smartphone or online. Compares against other profiles.
Inspiration from Passmore fitness assignment.
Justin
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'Social concierge' helps find new friends, not dates
Refreshing change from online sites?
via Springwise by Springwise on 7/8/10
There are countless dating sites out there for consumers interested in that kind of matchmaking, and Facebook does an excellent job of supplying most users with myriad online "friends." What can still be a challenge, however, is meeting real people to hang out with on the weekend. Meet Joe is a new, low-tech alternative to Facebook and its ilk that requires no online profile but relies on personal introductions instead.
Serving the Chicago area, Meet Joe focuses on introducing people to new friends based on their interests and the kinds of people they want to meet. Users begin by signing up with the service online—that may actually be the last time they use its website. From there, Joe Drake, the company's founder, will contact them personally via email to set up a confidential meeting over coffee or a drink. Based on their description of who they're hoping to find, Joe will then coordinate an opportunity for them to meet someone or a small group of people—he'll even help coordinate schedules and recommend an activity based on everyone's personalities, interests and preferences. Once the get-together has happened, Joe follows up with the user for feedback and guidance on subsequent recommendations. The site explains: "Joe is like a great tailor or a trusted real estate agent, but he doesn't have an assistant and he never takes a day off. You'll be able to reach him by email, phone, text, or instant message within 24 hours unless he is in jail, a coma, or the world is ending." The price of a personal consultation and one meeting with potential friends is USD 29.
Our sister site covers myriad examples of mass mingling in last month's trend briefing, but Meet Joe is striking for its low-tech simplicity and boutique-like focus on individual attention. The world did make friends before Facebook, after all, and it was generally through personal introductions. One to emulate in other parts of the world...? (Related: Five online services for getting together offline — Online network for tweens requires offline introductions.)
Website: www.meetjoe.net
Contact: www.meetjoe.net/contact/
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