Are you Eco-Generous?

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According to Reinier Evers, founder of Trendwatching.com generosity is the next big thing. What does that mean for ecopreneurs? Evers predicts that the next eco-trend is eco-generosity.

Marketing Your Green Product by Sponsoring a Party–Does It Work, or Is It Just For Fun?

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An increasing trend in marketing is to host a party to promote your product.  Innovative marketers use a party atmosphere to attract a crowd that might otherwise be indifferent or turned off by more traditional uses of marketing dollars, under a thinly veiled ad campaign. Moral?  Sure, why not?  It’s a party after all, so if [...]

Buying Into a Green Business: WiseGrasshopper.com and Others For Sale

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How many of us would love to own a green business but don’t know where to start?  There’s the business model, revenue forecasting, capital investment, incorporation documents, potential partnerships, competitive analysis, marketing, insurance, and a whole host of other considerations, including what to name the business.  It’s a daunting task, to say the least. For [...]

Book Review–75 Green Businesses by Glenn Croston

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Book review– 75 Green Businesses You Can Start to Make Money and Make a Difference by Glenn Croston, Ph.D This book is a nice complement to Ecopreneuring by John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist, in that while the latter is a lifestyle book, i.e., what would it be like to be a social entrepreneur, this book [...]

ECOL BRITE from Norwood

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It looks like Norwood had such a success with their ECOL brand of recycled paper (barrel) pens that in 2009 they decided to break out into color with their new line called ECOL BRITE.