Archive for June 3rd, 2005
Quixtar’s Attempts to Silence Online Critics
Mark Glaser reports on Amyway’s online division Quixtar’s attempts to manipulate search engine results to silence their web based critics: Someone tells you they have the opportunity of a lifetime for you. A way to make money by becoming an independent business owner through Quixtar. You’re not sure about Quixtar and want to learn more, [...]
Ross Mayfield: “My grandpa taught me the difference between an entrepreneur and a businessman is the entrepreneur is in it for the quick flip, while a businessman makes a lasting contribution to the community.” via Occam’s Razor and Buyout Blog.
A long time ago my father taught me how to negotiate: Make your demands and then shut up. Whoever speaks first, loses. Tom Evslin expands on this and presents eleven other lessons to explain the power of silence in negotiation: Silence from Mr. Oak. They are beginning to squirm as both the silence and their [...]
See Compliments For What They Are: Opportunities!
Duct Tape Marketing: “If you are like most, when you receive a compliment, you look down at your shoes, shuffle your feet, get a little blushy and stammer something like, shucks, it was nothing… I believe that when a client reaches out and tells you that you did a good job for them, they are [...]
Market Watch: Ads for business opportunities often make promises of big cash benefits for very little effort. But the Federal Trade Commission has found that many business-opportunity promotions are little more than scams to take money from consumers. Read the ad carefully. If it boasts that buyers can earn a specific amount of income, make [...]
Where’s the Leverage for Entrepreneurs?
Ben Casnocha: A nice post by my Cole Valley neighbor Mark Pincus who groans about the lack of leverage entrepreneurs have. VCs and other investors can make several large bets among various companies in different market segments, hedge fund managers are pretty much guaranteed a year in year out solid return, but entrepreneurs must make [...]
CoolBusinessIdeas.com: Scott Matthew knows there’s nothing like a hot pizza delivered to your door on a January night. One such night last year, when an hour seemed too long to wait, he went to bed hungry, but woke up inspired. “If you bake the pizzas in vans on the way to you, it would be [...]
Work from Home Signs: Herbalife
Yellow Pages Commando: If you’re like me, you see signs plastered all over creation claiming that you can earn $5,000 / month working at home in the mail order business. Turns out all those signs are from Herbalife, a multi-level marketing company that makes money by signing up distributors and selling them loads of vitamins [...]
