What was your biggest accomplishment in high school?

Was it that you were inducted into the the academic honor society, lettered in varsity football, simply got a date to the Homecoming dance?

Well, if you’re Jarrin C. Lawton, it might be becoming an entrepreneur.

Lawton is an author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker.  Lawton penned the book “How to Run a Successful Business while in High School,” which provides insights on how to start a business and when, geared toward 13 to 18 year olds.

As an author, Lawton shares his knowledge, experience, tips and more for the young entrepreneur who isn’t willing to use his/her age as an excuse to procrastinate their progress toward self-made success. 

Are you in high school?  

Do you have interest in becoming an entrepreneur? 

What are you waiting for?  

No one needs to give you permission to succeed other than yourself.

Pick up Lawton’s book to get inspired to take action now.  

Or, if you’re a parent, teacher or mentor of a budding entrepreneurial-minded young person, pick up the book as a gift to give.

Posted by Nick Venturella

Do you drink coffee when you work?  I do.  

I quite enjoy the focus and clarity I get from a little caffeine.  Especially, because my job involves a lot of writing for which I need concentrate to produce quality work.

However, many experience a caffeine crash when the effects of the coffee wear off. It’s at that point that one either suffers through the crash or needs to fuel themselves with more coffee to maintain their caffeinated state.

There is an answer to the caffeine crash.

NeuroGum is a chewing gum that delivers a combination of caffeine and L-theanine when one consumes the gum.

Chewing the gum allows the body to quickly absorb the active ingredients of the gum through the tissues that line the mouth.

The result of chewing NeuroGum is the desired energy boost from the caffeine while the L-theanine mitigates the negative effects of the caffeine.  In fact, the combination of L-theanine and caffeine may improve attention more than caffeine alone, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Learn more about NeuroGum.

Posted by Nick Venturella

Paper Street Soaps is an online retailer of handmade cold process soap and other organic body care products.

They make all of their soaps by hand using the highest quality ingredients chosen from fair trade sources to give you a guilt-free cleanse without any added dyes or chemicals.

I know some folks who are fanatical about their soaps and lotions, etc.  I can understand it, especially if you entertain at your home a lot.

Think about it, you want your guests to have a pleasant and clean experience using your bathroom while they’re at your place.

Plus, you may want to impress your guests a little bit, so having some unique hand-made soaps that smell great and feel soothing might be a subtle but significant win with your guests...especially, if that guest is someone special you’d like to pursue romantically...I digress...

If you’re less inclined to keep up with the Joneses, but absolutely inclined to keep up with your soaps (not those soaps).  You may want to consider Paper Street Soaps auto-ship soap club.

The auto-ship soap club allows customers to receive new bars of soap in the mail each month automatically.

Posted by Nick Venturella

You’ve just launched the beta version of your great new website/web app.

Initial interest and user signs ups are going well.

Trade publications and bloggers in your industry begin to take notice and publicize your new site and start-up.

Your phone starts ringing with clients who want a deeper dive into your web-app -- they have thoughts about additional functionality and features.  This is a good thing.  It’s a sign that your solution is useful, being adopted and people/businesses are interested to see it grow and expand.

Others begin to call -- potential reseller partners and other players in your industry who want to build a relationship.

In fact, one of them calls and asks if you can meet in an hour at a small networking event in town not far from your office location.

You’re excited to go, but you realize that you don’t even have business cards -- this web-app took off a little quicker than you had expected.

You remembered that you still have some desktop-printer-friendly card stock on hand from the last web-app that didn’t pan out as well as this one.

Using SpringPublisher’s free business card software you quickly design your business cards and print them in time for your networking event.

Posted by:  Nick Venturella

Have you ever needed to ship a purchased item across-the-world? If you have, you may have noticed that there is not one company that typically provides exactly what is needed for an across-the-world delivery.

However, there are many individuals across-the-world who could help just because they live in the right country. But how would you reach those people to assist in delivering your purchased item?

That’s the idea behind Parcl.com, a community-based shipping website introducing the concept of worldwide crowdshopping.

Parcl realized that anything could be delivered anywhere if only there were a website connecting shoppers with people capable of delivering their purchases.

Parcl makes it possible for anyone to shop in online, or in bricks and mortar stores, in any country. Parcl connects “forwarders” -- people, who earn money for re-shipping purchased items -- and “shoppers” -- those in need of delivery assistance, usually living outside of major delivery areas.

Parcl is a secure and trusted community of verified shoppers with a rating-based feedback system.

Parcl provides an automated order processing system with private and public orders for you to bid on.

Parcl is currently in an open beta phase, so for now all individuals are welcome to use Parcl with no extra fees whatsoever!  Be sure to check it out!

Posted by Nick Venturella