Archive for February 2006
39 Google Adsense Alternatives
Rosalind Gardner: Maybe you’re not seeing an adequate return on your Adsense ads and want to see whether you can do BETTER with something other than Adsense? Rosalind has compiled a list of 39 Google AdSense alternatives. adagency1 AdBrite Advertising.com AffiliateSensor AllFeeds AzoogleAds BidClix Bidvertiser Buds Media Network Burst Media Casale Media Chitika eMiniMalls Claxon [...]
ProlifePages Web Directory Launches to Connect Prolife Consumers, Businesses Company offers online medium to build prolife network and funding source Connecting prolife consumers and businesses – that is the purpose of www.prolifepages.com, a new online directory tool launched today by ProlifePages, LLC. “Prolife America has long needed a mechanism that could help bring them together [...]
Configure your blog for Edgeio, post an item and it gets listed, for free. The over/under on eBay buying Edgeio is 6 months. TechCrunch: After much anticipation and a period of being available to a private audience the team at Edgeio took the covers off of their creation tonight and launched to the general public. [...]
sfGate: Google Inc. has expanded its online payment service so that users can buy and sell everything from bicycle brakes to Beanie Babies through its Web site, posing an immediate challenge to eBay Inc. Google added the payment service to its nascent Google Base classified listings Friday, an expected move that nonetheless sends shockwaves through [...]
Low Price – High Shipping Wins on eBay
I have witnessed this first hand. I was losing sale after sale (daily) to sellers that listed an item for $9.99 with $9.99 in shipping while my item sat unsold at $13.99 with $5 in shipping. Marginal Revolution: Would you rather pay $10 and have free shipping or pay $5 and pay $6 for shipping? [...]
An eBay Seller Sees Gold in Airport Discards
Startup Journal: Working at Hoover Dam as an armed guard in June 2003, Mike Plott dreaded another scorching summer in a sweaty bulletproof vest checking cars. He thought there might be a better way to earn a living. One Sunday morning, Mr. Plott found it. He had just read a news item about a few [...]
PR Newswire: AquaCell Media, Inc., a subsidiary of AquaCell Technologies, has tapped into the fast-growing out-of-home advertising segment with their patented self-filling water coolers used as in-store “billboards”. AquaCell installs their unlimited-use water coolers free of charge for retailers so that they can offer their customers a refreshing shopping experience while simultaneously giving advertisers a [...]
This week’s Carnival of Marketing is up at Larry Bodine’s Professional Services Marketing Blog.
Google moves closer to full scale, head on competition with eBay. TechCrunch: Google announced last week on their blog that they will begin to facilitate payments on Google Base in the near future. The blog post from Google pointed out that Google are already accepting payments on their video service as well as when users [...]
The Entrepreneurial Mind: Business Friendly States for Taxes Wyoming tops the list of states with the most business-friendly tax system, according to a report released Monday. (tags: business bizopblog taxes) The Viral Copy Report | Copyblogger (tags: viral traffic bizopblog web)
Not only is Alaska the state in which you are most likely to be attacked by a polar bear but it is also the state with the lowest tax burden. In my mind, the one thing more than makes up for the other. The Work at Home Business Opportunities Weblog has a link to an [...]
Ten Reasons Young People Are Afraid to Start Their Own Business
Dave Pollard: Don’t Have the Skills Don’t Have the Self-Confidence Don’t Have the Ideas Don’t Have the Money The Deck’s Stacked Against Entrepreneurs Couldn’t Handle the Failure Don’t Know the Process Don’t Have the Time Couldn’t Handle the Stress Couldn’t Handle the Loneliness via Startup Fever.
Google Eyes New Ad Venues: TV, Magazines, Radio
USA Today: Internet search giant Google ushered in the biggest revolution in advertising since the dawn of television when it popularized online ads that run near Web search results. For the first time, advertisers had to pay only if someone viewed an ad. Now, Google wants to bring its targeted-advertising system to old media: radio, [...]
Internet entrepreneurship on eBay
SF Gate: Pinson is a case study in Internet entrepreneurship: A regular guy has a regular job until he discovers he can make an income selling online. But he’s not unique in the way he does business. Internet users have been turning themselves into Internet merchants since eBay began in 1995. Ten years later, according [...]
Charging Sales Tax on the Internet
The following is a guest post by Shimon Sandler. Visit his blog at www.shimonsandler.com. If you own an e-commerce website, do you need to charge sales tax? The current law is this: If an online retailer has a physical location in a state, it must collect sales tax from customers in that state. If a [...]
Only on eBay: Image of Jesus on Sheet Metal
Leading the Charge: Thomas Haley was unloading supplies for his job at Hardy‘s Hardware when he said something odd caught his eye: the face of Jesus Christ on a piece of sheet metal. “I mean, it hasn‘t done anything miraculous as of yet, but seeing it is kind of groovy,” said Haley, 23. “Just seeing [...]
eBay’s Feedback System Broken?
InternetNews: eBay has taken a few “minor steps” to improve the feedback system recently, according to David A. Karp, author of “eBay Hacks.” Until recently, Karp said, new eBay members weren t instructed on how to use the feedback system. Now people must watch a mandatory tutorial on the proper use of feedback before they [...]
The Affiliate Marketerâs Journal: More and more I am seeing the trend of merchants offering âprivate labelâ? or âtemplateâ? web sites. Private labels appear to be a full fledged e-commerce site, complete with product pages, shipping policies, etc. When customers opt to buy something from the template site, however, they are actually directed to a [...]
This week’s Carnival of Investing is up at Retire at 30.
Pics of Cheating Wife Sold on eBay
icWales: A husband has taken revenge on his former wife by putting pictures of her on sale on eBay. The Welshman is selling discs containing 200 pictures because he says his ex-spouse cheated on him with his ex-best mate. Using an anonymous eBay trading name, the man has seven discs of pictures of the 24-year-old [...]
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up on the Money Blog Network.
Marginal Revolution: Make Money on eBay Would you rather pay $10 and have free shipping or pay $5 and pay $6 for shipping? Answer: you prefer the latter. Well, at least if you are like most bidders on eBay. (tags: business bizopblog ebay)
BBC News: Internet auction site eBay should do more to tackle fraudsters targeting the site, a consumer magazine has said. Computing Which? called on the site to be more active in identifying its fraudulent users. It also wants the site to warn users about the danger of fraud and to crack down on the selling [...]
Internet Selling Presents Surprising Career for Many
SF Gate: Pinson is a case study in Internet entrepreneurship: A regular guy has a regular job until he discovers he can make an income selling online. But he’s not unique in the way he does business. Internet users have been turning themselves into Internet merchants since eBay began in 1995. Ten years later, according [...]
This week’s Carnival Of the Capitalists is up at Ideologic and cross posted at BusinessWorks.
Forbes: For startups, even those that have raised venture capital, it is important to stretch the dollar. Here’s how: Always ask for discounts and always negotiate. Don’t own; borrow or lease instead Look for opportunities to barter Partnerships Analyze all major expense line items Don’t be too cheap
Why Are Directories Anti-Affiliates?
Revenews: Web directories themselves are mere conduits to other destinations on the Internet; so, why should these directories have an issue with affiliate sites that are (much better) conduits to products or services that are useful to its users? Also, when will these directory owners realize that affiliate marketing is a serious business with the [...]
p2p news / p2pnet: “As the number of Google services has increased, we’ve continued to build on our core payment features and migrate to a standard process for people to buy our services with a Google Account. Examples of this migration include enabling users to buy Google Video content, Google Earth licenses, and Google Store [...]
I don’t normally toot my own horn but this was just too good to pass up: Abe Olandres said: And the most successful piece of link bait tool I have ever witnessed is the “How much is your blog worth?” calculator by Dane Carlson of Business Opportunities Weblog. I am sure half of you here [...]
This Week in the Business Opportunities Weblog Network
The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network this week: Best and Worst of Making Money Online: Part 1 Selling for Others on eBay Brazil: Carnival in Your Living Room Links for 2006-02-15 First Lenovo-Branded Products Debut Worldwide Self Employed [...]
This Week in the Business Opportunities Weblog Network
The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network this week: Best and Worst of Making Money Online: Part 1 Selling for Others on eBay Brazil: Carnival in Your Living Room Links for 2006-02-15 First Lenovo-Branded Products Debut Worldwide Self Employed [...]
This Week in the Business Opportunities Weblog Network
The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network this week: Best and Worst of Making Money Online: Part 1 Selling for Others on eBay Brazil: Carnival in Your Living Room Links for 2006-02-15 First Lenovo-Branded Products Debut Worldwide Self Employed [...]
A word on pricing… anything For instance, if your coupon books are 12 pages long and cost you $1 each to have printed in batches of 1,000, then your cost is $1,000. If you want to make $500, then you must sell advertising totaling $1,500. As the front page will probably be fluff, th (tags: [...]
Real Estate Idea: Monopoly Houses
With the real estate market starting to turn, maybe it’s time for a completely new direction in housing. B2Day: These may look like Monopoly houses, but they are part of a 10,000-unit housing project in Ixtapaluca, Mexico. The picture was shot from the air, and is real, or so says the helicopter pilot who took [...]
Being an Entrepreneur Gets in Your Blood
NY Times: That’s how it is with serial entrepreneurs: they create one company after another, and everything else is just tossing dirt. They do it, Mr. Tooke says, because they “like to go fast.” They “like simultaneously building a company, tailoring products to changing markets and selling,” he said. They do it because they love [...]
Randy: This is an idea I’ve played with for a while. Suppose you were an affiliate for some kind of product that costs money, but isn’t something that is often sold at a discount or sold used. Like a magazine subscription, for example, or herbal hangover pills. And suppose you put auctions for that product [...]
Guy Kawasaki: The Name Game I’d like to provide some guidelines about naming a company or product because I meet with many companies who are in this process. Generally, the primary concern of most people seems to be whether a domain name is available. However, there are other consid (tags: business branding bizopblog names)
How to Start a Bed and Breakfast
Entrepreneur: Whether you want to start a B&B to escape the rat race, to supplement your income, to create a business out of a historic home that you love, or to indulge your love of being a host or hostess, you’ll want to know the profit factor. What revenues can you expect as a bed [...]
AC Feb 2006 Magazine Published
The February 2006 issue of Affiliate Classroom Magazine is out: The February 2006 issue is all about the EU Affiliate Marketing scene, crammed with marketing opportunities from affiliates who actually live and work in the EU. Plus AdSense Arbitrage that works, multiplying profits from existing content, and much more!
Economic Times: Tall, gangly, blond with turquoise blue eyes that look into you with an intensity thatâs surprising and makes it difficult to call her Maggie or Meg. Meg Whitman, president & CEO of eBay, is probably the longest-serving chief of a dotcom firm. Someone who has seen the boom, bust and the maturing of [...]
Olympian, Kimmie Meissner Already Hitting eBay
Baltimore Sun: It didn’t take long before people began cashing in on Kimmie Meissner. Even as the 16-year old Bel Air ice skater was landing her triple lutz triple toe combination in Turin yesterday, there were 24 postings on eBay by people selling autographed photos, newspaper clippings, signed ice skates and autographs connected to starlet [...]
Victorian Casino Antiques on eBay Live
101 Best: A Victorian casino antiques auction is to be held next month, as announced yesterday by Ableauctions.com, which is hosting the auction on behalf of Victorian Casino Antiques. The auction, held in Las Vegas, will be broadcast live on the Internet. It will include antique casino items, dating back from as early as the [...]
This week’s Brain Brew Radio episode is online: Tom with Solve Interactive in Dayton, Ohio asks Doug and Dave what the best thing to do is when your data is disagreeing with your gut feeling… Jim with Reel Memories finds out how he can instill a sense of urgency in potential clients without alienating them… [...]
eBay CEO, Whitman Visits India
NDTV: The latest CEO to visit India is Meg Whitman, the head of eBay, the world’s biggest auction site. India is becoming an increasingly important market for eBay, especially as its growth on home ground has slowed down. “Our business here is quite small and quite nascent, but we think that over the next five [...]
âRealâ? On-Line Entrepreneurs Donât Spend Ad Money – ReveNews – Guest Blogger, Online Revenue News & Opinions Since 1998 Most entrepreneurs believe that if they could afford some big time advertising their business would be a huge success. But if this were true, why did all those high flying dot com companies who paid millions [...]
Creating Passionate Users: You always knew that dull, boring cubicles could suck the joy out of work, but now there’s evidence that they can change your brain. Not mentally or emotionally, no, we’re talking physical structural changes. You could almost say, “Dull, lifeless work environments cause brain damage.” I said “almost”, because it depends on [...]
Carnival of Entrepreneurship is up on Jack Yoest’s blog.
Right Now, Experience is More Important Than Money
Excellent post from Ramit Sethi about the trade off between a present income and future return: What the hell? I think this is where a lot of people differ. When pride gets in the way, everybody loses. These friends were basically saying that I should tell the client to pay me my normal rate or [...]
Elton John’s signed piano on eBay
vnunet.com: Sir Elton John has placed one of his most famous pianos up for auction on eBay to raise funds for the Aids charity which he founded. The iconic Yamaha DC6A Pro digital acoustic 6ft 11in grand piano, played by the star at a variety of special events surrounding his hit shows in Las Vegas, [...]
Seth Godin: Jeff Clark is right out of school. Rather than making average resumes to send to lots of companies to get past computer screeners so he could get an average job, he built a website: I Hired Jeff Clark! Jeff Clark is looking for a marketing job.
