PayPal officially available through Banco Nacional in Costa Rica
Finally, the possibility to link your bank account with your PayPal account has been officialized in Costa Rica. Banco Nacional is the first bank to allow withdrawal of money from a PayPal account through a linked Banco Nacional bank account.
I have received the following message from PayPal today:
You all probably have received the same messages if you have a PayPal account that is registered for your home address in Costa Rica. Please leave a comment to let everybody else know if, and how well it is working for you!
PayPal comes to Costa Rica Officially

In addition to my previous post about PayPal in Costa Rica, it seems as if the folks at PayPal and Banco Nacional have started to rumble their brains, offices and administration.
I am very happy to have received an e-mail today from PayPal, indicating that with my PayPal account I will soon be able to withdraw funds to my Costa Rican Banco Nacional bank account.
How to Use PayPal in Costa Rica? Yes you Can!
How can you start using PayPal in Costa Rica? With former company Internet Marketing Costa Rica we have had some challenges finding the easiest way to make payments and more importantly, to receive payments from clients, online, within Costa Rica.
Tips on becoming an Entrepreneur – Round Roads and Learning Curbs
Here is a true story filled with tips and experiences on being an entrepreneur.
Note to the reader: I will not analyze this metaphorically constructed story to death and will therefore leave any open ends for input by the reader and stimulate you to use the comments on the bottom of the story for any remarks, questions or additionally interesting information and tips concerning entrepreneurship.
The voyage of an entrepreneur - running in the morning by MSc. Johan Stoop
Entrepreneurship is in many ways just like getting up in the morning feeling like running to get some exercise. A ritual like this always starts with a great journey ahead, a journey that will take you along all the elements of an entrepreneurial life-choice.
You wake up and dress up appropriately, thinking that you need to put on your running shoes, a short, a shirt that is not too tight, don't forget your keys, clicker or any sort of device that will allow you to get out of (and maybe back into) the premises.
You should plan for taking some reserves for along the road, taking a bottle of water, some snacks, a banana perhaps, just so you make sure you can boost your energy and sugar-levels up to a level that you know you can at least start out the voyage along the road.
Then the voyage itself starts. You get out the door take the right turn and start running.
Brandable Beer Bottles – An old Idea given New Life for Your Party!
Evenings spent at a busy party or bar can often cause drinkers to lose track of their beverages. Wine drinkers already have wine charms to identify their glasses, and now — thanks to BeerTag — there's an equivalent for beer drinkers too.
The company claims that 32 percent of US beer drinkers resort to ripping the label of their beer bottle in order to mark it as their own in a social setting; 46 percent, meanwhile, choose a particular spot to set it down in so as to keep closer track of it. Chicago-based BeerTag, however, hopes to end all that with a distinctive — and even advertising-ready — sleeve that fits over the neck of a beer bottle to identify whose it is. Available in a variety of colors and designs, the BeerTag not only helps consumers protect their drinks, but it also “offers beer distributors a unique opportunity to promote their brands, directly onto a competitor's product, in the on-premise environment,” in the company's own words. Several designs are available as free downloads on BeerTag's site; interested advertisers are encouraged to contact the company for a quote.
Coming soon from BeerTag is a way for consumers to purchase their own BeerTags and even to create their own personalized tags. In the meantime, however, the company's goal is “to make the BeerTag available as a free promotional product to consumers in over 10,000 bars in the U.S. within the next three years,” it says. One to partner with toward that end?
Some interesting applications for this would be: Weddings (with Campagne?), Gradtuation Parties (obviously!), Bachelor Parties (small Quantities... that's up to you!) or Company Trips/Celebrations, or just for your own Bar/Restaurant, whether on Mardi Gras in New Orleans / Queensday in Holland or any other day of the year.
For you to Brand your Beer accordingly
Innovative Visualization Techniques – Data Flow
How to Visualize complex data sets and extensive topics in one two-dimensional layer?
That is what Infographics is all about, and boy I can tell you, it is powerful.
Every single time one lays his eyes over an Infographic he will be able to find new information,
that he didn't perceive before. It is an endless journey of discovery and a pleasure to learn the extensive coherence and interrelationships within one single subject.
The authors of the video above have really caught the beauty of what in a Designer's world is the highest level of all visualization techniques.
The Creators have compiled their findings and categorized some pretty extreme and nice-looking infographics and artistic data visualization tools into a beautiful book, called Data Flow - Find it on Amazon.
Low on Marketing? Where is RedBull when you need them?
From Mexico to San Juan in Ecuador,
this event sounds like it has great potential, but you need some spectacle to make it big. Maybe a nice market for a sports brand to promote itself on, in the quest for market share in Latin-America.
Downhill San Juan from juan jose on Vimeo.
Guerilla Marketing by Students – DIY Bike Lanes in Guadalajara, Mexico

Want some bike lanes in your neighborhood? Put them in yourself. That’s what some people in Guadalajara, Mexico have done. Their Guerrilla marketing approach certainly has gone worldwide from that point on. Here’s more from TreeHugger:
A group of citizens in Guadalajara, Mexico, was fed up with the inaction of the local authorities. Their city has a big traffic problem (350 new cars are added to the city’s roads every day, average traffic speed has fallen to 18 km/h, and the quality of our air reaches alarming levels during several days of winter), and those who want to bike have to deal with dangerous roads that don’t have bike lanes. So these citizens, led by local teachers and students, decided to fix the problem themselves. Check out the video below!
The video is in Spanish, but the images mostly speak for themselves:
Awesome! But where are the other Guerilla marketing activities like this one, that so clearly stimulate Green initiatives?
I will be looking out for them... Because this is one Guerrilla Marketing example you simply want to embrace.
Energy Crisis? Innovate This! (while Tanning…)
When someone is talking about the 'Energy Crisis',
He surely must be joking around about his own incapability to combine the following DIY invention with a Sterling Engine...
Imagine how much energy could be gotten from this, even in cold climates where the sun shines bright.
It is already known for being a cooking help in Parabolic Solar Furnasses,
but I would be really interested in Knowing how to combine this with the almost Prehistorical Sterling engine in the video underneath:
With just a little imagination, Living Off-Grid and creating your own Energy at home is available for everyone.
PET Bottles: Upcycled Water Bottles
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA
on 10.12.07

We all know that bottled water is a blight on the planet, but despite our best efforts to curtain its use, it remains the fastest growing beverage industry in the world; 1.5 million tons of plastic are used to bottle water every year, and sales of bottled water have increased by 500 percent over the last decade. That's a lot of damn plastic.
designboom has dug up a handful of innovative ways to not just recycle these bottles, but to upcycle them into something more useful than just a single-use water bottle. "Watering Can", pictured above, is a slick adapter to turn just about any PET (no, not that pet) plastic bottle into a plant watering can; hit the jump to see a couple more slick implementations. ::designboom via ::Apartment Therapy: Green

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