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Tip of the day -  Need company name? Try crowdsourcing http://bottlesandwood.com/ Tucked in a warehouse a mile from the Las Vegas Strip, a handful of employees cut, grind, sand and polish glass — turning tourists' trash into treasure. It's the business of bottles, and there's certainly no shortage in Las Vegas. The Strip's 24-hour party cycle sends scores of empty liquor, wine and beer bottles to the trash, much of it destined for burial at a landfill. The demise of this perfectly good glass troubled Steve Cherry, founder of Bottles & Wood, a new Las Vegas-based company that repurposes discarded alcohol bottles. "The last thing we should be doing with these bottles is crushing it and filling a landfill," he said. "That does nothing for anyone." His business idea didn't start in Las Vegas, though. A Southern California native, Cherry began repurposing glass water bottles to make candleholders for a friend's restaurant. Customers approved o...

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Tip of the day -  Need company name? Try crowdsourcing http://www.zankyou.com/ The explosion of the Internet, including increasing mobility not only in socialization mediums and work options, has heralded vast communication and networking possibilities. This opening likewise heralded better opportunities for maintaining long-distance affairs. Through various social media like Facebook, WeChat, Instagram, Viber, Skype, Twitter, and others, meeting people from abroad and developing relationships even with individuals from separate areas of the globe and actually making such a relationship succeed holds more promise than ever. However, marriage between, say, an American, while the partner, the partner’s family and friends are all the way in Chile, can be a wedding planning pain. What with the multiple cultural barriers to top off the basic language and monetary ones, organizing such an event and making it convenient for everyone from different nationalities involved can be ...

Tip of the day -  Need company name? Try crowdsourcing http://buymomdoms.com/ Coming of age is an eventual turning point in a child’s life. It’s the coming in wrong places and at wrong times that parents have to worry more about. This is where the dreaded sex talk supposedly comes in handy. Due to the awkwardness ensued by the nature of this talk, either kids avoid it like the plague, or most parents delay sitting down to “educate” their kids until it’s too late. However, educating youngsters on the uses of contraception to avoid accidents resulting from various pubescent adventures, which will surely happen, is a responsibility that should not be ignored. But how to go about this business without spreading the awkward chill of this so-called sex ed talk? Inspired by their nurse mother’s no-nonsense attitude about sex education, which no doubt helped them prevent accidents of their own, founders Kevin and Wayne Simpkins came up with an ingenuous...

  I have found awesome free SmartSheet alternative –  Bitrix24 . By free I mean free for small teams (up to 12 users) - you get all the premium features minus time tracking and records management. If you have more than 12 users, you have to pay, but you get unlimited users as well unlimited external users (extranet). Also, unlike with SmartSheet, you have a choice – you can either use the online cloud version or you host it on your own server, if you have cash to spare. And if you go with the self-hosted version you get source code and API, so you can modify it as you want and integrate pretty much with anything that has API. If you have PHP coding experience, you’ll love this. Now, let’s look at the features more closely.  Essentially get all the features SmartSheet offers and then some. The approach, however, is quite different. Both in terms of service and design, SmartSheet tends to be very basic. For example, here’s  file sharing and document collaboration in Sm...

Tip of the day -  Need cool domain name? Try crowdsourcing http://curiousjanecamp.com/ Business: Curious Jane Location: Brooklyn, N.Y. Launched in 2009, Curious Jane offers after-school programs and summer camps geared toward getting girls excited about science, engineering and design. "Moms have been very receptive to it," said owner Samantha Razook Murphy. "And we've drawn an amazing staff of exceptional young women who believe in our concept and bring their own ideas to it." Best business advice: "Be resourceful and don't give up on your idea." Biggest challenge: "There's more demand than supply right now," said Murphy. That's where the $250,000 grant will come in handy. What she plans to do with the grant money: "We're running very basic programs in six other states. The grant will help our camp directors to develop those programs more fully." [Via - CNNMoney.com] Does your small business need free tools? Check o...

Looking for top Bitrix24 reviews? Here are most popular ones according to Google, Alexa, Yahoo and Bing. 1. Miguel Leiva-Gomez of MakeTechEasier, lists Bitrix24 among top free collaboration tools as number one. His reasons? "Bitrix24 presents a powerful collaborative suite that lets you talk to your clients, manage your documents, stay on top of large projects, and create invoices." 2. UncommonBusiness blog compares Bitrix24 with Jive Software . The main advantages of using Bitrix24 as enterprise social tools, according the review, are free tools that come with it - such as CRM, Project Management, Document Management and others.PC 3. PCMag review Eric Griffith lists Bitrix24 among best free web apps   for small business. This is more of a list rather than a review, but it has a great number SMB centric applications. 4. MadConomist list Bitrix24 as free SmartSheet competitor . As other reviewers, the author likes the fact that you get 12 free users and a number of fre...