This is another great negosyo idea that we can also help our kababayan who are in prison.A report from the U.S.- “We Have the Time to Do It Right,” is one of the mantras on the unit’s corporate website; “Built with Conviction” is another.

Although 40 of 50 states still produce license plates behind bars, prison businesses have diversified. Inmates at Arizona Correctional Industries at the Lewis prison complex in Buckeye fix diesel tractors. Nearly a thousand Tennessee and South Carolina convicts use draw knives and hand scrapers to “antique” floors for a company that markets interiors with a vintage look.

The Pendleton, Ore., penitentiary sells a line of Prison Blue work apparel. California has a product in development: its own denim collection, Folsom Prison Blues.

In the U.S., prison industries—correctional facilities with for-profit ventures that sell goods and services to the public—will have sales of over $2.2 billion this year, according to the National Correctional Industries Association, a Baltimore-based trade group. Silver State’s auto-restoration shop here in Indian Springs brought in $130,000 of the facility’s $6 million in fiscal 2010 revenue.

Besides auto-restoration, Silver State Industries also has a shop that packages old playing cards into souvenirs for Nevada casinos, and others that print books and make clothing. Here in the Philippines most prisoners make handicraft like Christmas lanterns to sell during the Christmas season but the negosyo idea above is quite good for a year round income generation that earns the prisoners with some money and also help local business that need there manpower.

A news from ABC World News shared the story of Amit Aharoni, an Israeli national and a graduate of Stanford Business School, who secured $1.65 million in venture capital funding with two cofounders to launch CruiseWise.com, an online cruise booking company.

The company hired nine Americans in just one year. But Aharoni hit rough waters after he received a letter on Oct. 4 from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denying his request for a visa and notifying him that he needed to leave the country immediately. Aharoni moved to Canada, where he was forced to run his company via Skype from a friend’s living room.

While “World News’ viewers voiced their disappointment, this morning, Aharoni received an email from USCIS. He was told that his petition had been reconsidered and approved. He is once again able to work in the U.S.

Experts say America’s immigration policy is putting it at a competitive disadvantage. There are other countries that are eager to have entrepreneurs, enticing them with special visas and funding. According to Partnership for a New American Economy, an organization that advocates “the economic benefits of sensible immigration reform,” countries including the United Kingdom, Singapore and Chile have visas for entrepreneurs. Chile even has a program that offers $40,000 in seed funding. Its a story for the Negosyantes or Pinoy businessmen who wants to venture business from outside the Philippines.

WikiLeaks is all in the news nowadays and the Philippines was not excempted on its
released of hundreds of thousands of classified documents.The site’s secret-document dumps have spawned contentious political debates, international nail-biting, and near-daily headlines.

In a story in Inc.com, all that buzz has been a boon for small business. Hundreds of online pop-ups have emerged, peddling their Wiki-wares to the site’s band of loyal followers. Many see the site as purely political; others see it as purely profitable.

Since WikiLeaks hit the headlines, vendors have been uploading new Assange- and state-secrets-themed products daily to Zazzle.com, an e-commerce site based in San Jose, California. Products on the site, which is an open marketplace for designers and small businesses, range from the fairly traditional (buttons, T-shirts, sweatshirts) to the downright droll (dog sweaters, onesies, skateboards).

It stands to reason, then, that WikiLeaks-related websites—some legitimate content hubs, some little more than an attempt to generate ad revenue from URL typos—have also been an inevitable product of recent media attention.

“In the past few months, we’ve started seeing an increase in the number of domain names with the word ‘wiki’ and ‘leaks’ in them,” says Adelman. The site, which claims to register a domain name every second of every day is also hosting about 10 auctions right now for WikiLeaks-themed domains, with an average starting bid of around $5,000 each.

Photo by Zazzle

When a child is too sick to go to day care or school, working parents often have little choice but to stay home and miss work themselves. A new business in Kennewick, Washington in the U.S.A., however, where a company offers bed rest and supervised nursing care for kids with low-level but contagious illnesses, a story from Springwise.

Chicken Soup + Nursing is a 20-bed facility aimed at kids up to 12 years old with fever, conjunctivitis, rashes or other problems that prevent their going to school. In a setting much like a hospital ward, children are evaluated by a doctor or nurse practitioner, and typically placed on varying degrees of bed rest (with a safe distance between beds).

Their vitals are taken at routine intervals by certified staff. If they are found to require medication, those drugs are ordered from a pharmacy, picked up and administered as directed. Kids can bring toys, books, handheld games and movies along with a packed lunch or baby food, if appropriate.

Chicken Soup + Nursing provides snacks and fluids, along with updates to parents throughout the day. Chicken Soup + Nursing is planning to become a 24/7 operation and to enable remote viewing of patients for parents at work.

This is great negosyo idea to those who have interest in opening a business for kids in the Philippines. Be the first to offer daytime care for mildly sick kids in your neighborhood.

Photo by Chicken Soup + Nursing.

Here is a great idea from the the Dallas Morning News about how to handle leftover halloween candies those collected by the kids in there trick or treat.

If there’s one thing worse than running out of candy on Halloween, it’s having too much when it’s over.It’s bad for your kids’ health, their teeth and the teachers who have to calm down candy-crazed kids the next day and, possibly, a week afterward, depending on how much is in their stash.

Phillip Done, a 25-year teaching veteran, says he is thankful for parents who don’t send their kids to school with a backpack full of sugary loot. His favorite solution? The Candy Fairy.

“The Candy Fairy is similar to the Tooth Fairy,” he explains. “Instead of taking teeth, she takes Halloween candy and gives it to all the children who cannot go out trick-or-treating. Children leave out most of their candy and write a letter. The Candy Fairy visits at night and leaves a gift.”

The kids don’t mind giving up their loot as long as they still get to have some, he notes.

“And the kids love getting a gift and writing a letter. I think in a couple of years, you’ll be hearing a lot about this Candy Fairy!”

Photo by cksinfo.

Nowadays you can see many banners and streamers along the streets, in electric posts and other strategic places that captures the public eyes. This banners and streamers are made of the latest tarpaulin printing technology which is why it is now in full color and also very affordable and cost-effective now. This are usually use in special event advertisements such as concerts, conventions and many other uses. The wide use of tarpaulin ads poses a new problem this are usually use only  for a numbers of months but the material that is use is very durable that it can be use for a lifetime and hince a new idea of recycling this material into other uses come up and can be a great idea for a new kind of  business.

Kimberly Hess has been an inventor her whole life. She’s also been a gardener, a florist and a seamstress.

Now she’s found a pursuit that allows her to practice all those skills at once.

Hess has invented The Tomato Bag, a hanging, cone-shaped container made of recycled tarp remnants.

“It keeps remnants out of the landfill, it allows me to be creative and it could help to keep the employees here busy,” says the rural Halstad, Minn., woman, who works as an independent industrial seamstress at TRS Industries in Fargo.

Hess is also working on prototypes for a smaller herb bag, a compartmentalized petunia bag and a bag that would showcase dried-flower arrangements – another self-taught specialty of hers. Hess also envisions a deluxe tomato bag, which would come complete with its own water container.

Photo by INFORUM.