Archive for September 8th, 2004
You’re Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice
Just in time for the 2nd season of The Apprentice comes You’re Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice. I haven’t read it yet. Can anyone share a review?
Moving Stale Inventory on Ebay
In this week’s Entrepreneur’s Diary, John Canter explains the lessons he’s learned in six months of selling his store’s slow moving inventory on eBay: When I first started using eBay, I didn’t think I’d needed to do much marketing to sell an item. That’s not the case. Whereas in a traditional store, a salesperson can [...]
How To Measure Your Popularity, Authority and Credibility Online
Wow! Robin Good has compiled the most extensive collection of tools I’ve ever seen for use in determining your online PAC (popularity, authority, and credibility).
→ highspeedservice.com High Speed Service is a dental handpiece repair business involved in rebuilding and repairing high-speed drills that are used by dentists. The owner, Vern Tunnell started this repair business more than 10 years ago and still practices today. Originally a machine shop owner who was tired of working 10-to 12 hour days seven [...]
How Much to Charge as a Consultant
Chris Hanson: For a simple example, start with your base salary. Now tack on 25% as payroll overhead to cover all of the various payroll taxes you’ll have to pay. This may be a little high, but it’s good to create conservative models. It leaves some room to give, and it also makes it less [...]
Scott Johnson: “When you get started consulting you will quickly find that customers want references. This is central to your overall marketing effort so when you get that first customer who agrees to pay you $$$ for something then go all out to make them happy. Even if you lose money it’s still worth it. [...]
Woot! (first mentioned here) has changed it return policy: Call the manufacturer of the product you bought. You will likely get a replacement of a new model or better item from the manufacturer. If we still haven’t dissuaded you, email rma@woot.com with your woot order number, the name of the product you are returning, and [...]
Timbuktu Chronicles is an interesting looking blog about entrepreneurship in Africa. One of my favorite things to do after finding a new weblog is to skim through the archives. Timbuktu Chronicles has been published for almost a year, so I’m definitely looking forward to reading it. Have you found any interesting looking blogs recently? Please [...]
D. Keith Robinson: “The Web runs on good content, yet good content has to be written and can be hard to come by. I often get e-mail from folks expressing interest into how I’m able to keep writing constantly and keep coming up with good topics to write about. I’ll admit, it’s harder and more [...]
