Business Idea of the Day

The dog days of August are almost over and so is National Inventors Month . We covered a lot of inventors and inventions this month. One of my favorites is the look back at inventors from the past who came up with ideas that we use without a second thought.

Today, Rich Whittle interviews Jennifer Letscher about her sport bottle wash, SKWEET.

Here’s another episode of THAT’S MY BUSINESS! Today Rich Whittle talks with Dave Altuna about the business of making little people at IAmAStuffedAnimal.com

Co-owner Christian Petersen looks out of a window at his bicycle shop in Altlandsberg, Germany, northeast of Berlin. Petersen attached about 120 bicycles to the wall to advertise the shop. Photo by Reuters .

Ten-year-old Brady Miller couldn’t hit the ball right. So his dad, Rick Miller, made a training tool that gave him clues about how to swing the bat, reports the Dallas Morning News. Two years later, the RBI Pro Swing is manufactured in Irving, packaged in Fort Worth and sold in sports stores across the country. It has become the full-time job of the 49-year-old Colleyville resident and the inspiration for his Fort Worth-based company, MSportsLLC. The company hopes to sell 1 million Pro Swings by 2013.

In today’s vidcast, Rich Whittle talks with Julia Rhodes, who took her dry-erase marker eraser invention and turned it into a big business .

Sad. But profitable, I’m sure. The NY Times has a profile of the world’s first divorce insurance product. Here’s how its WedLock product works

I’m from California and we have earthquakes. It’s just part of living here for me, but I’m sure that people in the midwest are frightened by the idea.

Have you ever wanted to own your very own tourist town? A place famous for its antique shops, civil war memorabilia and quirky attractions? On July 22nd, much of Strasburg, Virginia will be up for bid including the former Museum of American Presidents and the Jeane Dixon Museum . The auction is a result of the death of Washington D.C.

Bloomberg Businessweek reports that fear of financial collapse has enhanced gold’s glitter, with prices soaring more than 300 percent the past decade, including 30 percent just in the last 12 months. And just as strong U.S. real estate prices a few years ago created a burgeoning ecosystem of entrepreneurs exploiting that bubble, gold’s surge has led to a new crop of prospectors seeking gold and the business around gold