Archive for February 16th, 2006
How to Borrow From a Retirement Account
Home Business Magazine Online: If you are interested in financing your business, you should know about a tax law change that allows you to borrow up to $50,000 tax-free from your 401(k) retirement account. Any business with no employees can establish a self-employed 401(k) plan that comes with a loan feature. It doesn’t matter if [...]
Going Global: PayPal announced yesterday that it has surpassed 100 million registered users. Not bad for a seven-year-old company. What jumped out at me is that these 100 million users are distributed across 55 countries. Although eBay won’t release the ratio of US PayPal users to non-US PayPal users, my guess is that roughly 65% [...]
MSN Contextual Ad Program: ContentAds
JenSenese: MSN ContentAds is their contextual advertising program name and a launch date will be sometime in 2006. Introducing adCenter – Microsoft’s Next Generation Advertising Platform Speaker(s): David Jakubowski, Jed Nahum Session Type(s): Breakout adCenter is the next generation of online advertising that will allow you to conveniently plan, execute, and adjust your online advertising [...]
Opportunity In the New Paper Trail
Startup Journal: The surging interest in e-printers is roiling the $126 billion U.S. printing industry. According to research firm InfoTrends/CAP Ventures, print jobs that move through the Internet made up 12.5% of the total U.S. printing market last year. Charlie Corr, a group director at InfoTrends, projects e-printing will grow at a rate of 19% [...]
Entrepreneurs: NZ Maori & UK Youth
Two very interesting new studies out today from Babson College today: The first, a look at Maori of New Zealand is the largest-ever survey of indigenous entrepreneurship: In terms of Total Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity, Aotearoa (Maori New Zealanders) at 17.7% and New Zealand at 17.6% were surpassed globally only by two other countries (Thailand and [...]
eBay RV Man – $5 Million in Sales
The Register-Guard: Michael Boland knows RVs. He’s worked on them as a mechanic, he’s worked in an RV factory doing maintenance, and he’s sold and appraised them for a dealer. Now he’s his own boss, brokering motor home sales through his own Web sites and on eBay, offering his services as an RV appraiser and [...]
Receller will hold your hand on eBay
I beta-tested Receller. It’s pretty cool. I sent them a picture from my camera phone and they called me back, asked me a few questions and “BAM!”, my auction was up and running. CNN: If you’re still gung-ho about making an eBay splash, you may want to get some guidance. First, auction off simple items [...]
Don Dodge: In the old days you needed a big marketing staff, a huge budget, a PR agency, an elaborate press event at a big hotel (with food and drinks), and the attention of the trade press writers to launch your product. And then you would pray that all that investment of time and money [...]
DM News: Searches conducted on AOL were most likely to lead to online consumer purchases in January, according to a new WebSideStory index. This may reflect a difference in the demographics of people visiting various search engines. WebSideStory’s index compares the median conversion rates of four major search engines at business-to-consumer e-commerce sites. AOL generated [...]
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This week’s Carnvival of Entrepreneurship is up at Working Solo.
“My Next Product is so Wonderful I Have to Keep it a Secret”
John Ross: I’m a member of a number of small business and entrepreneurial organizations. I always find the gatherings really interesting because of the different views people have about how they should run a business. I have no idea what qualifications most of the people there have. They might all be MBAs; then again, they [...]
Ask the Business Opportunities Weblog: Selling for Others on eBay?
Family Work Forum | Encouraging Family Entrepreneurship Family Work Forum, is a meaningful exploration of legitimate opportunities for families to turn their hearts towards home while still earning a living to put food on the table. (tags: bizopblog family workathome businessmodels) Seth’s Blog: The Reason The reason you go to a building to go to [...]
Michael Jackson’s Glove on eBay
Star Pulse: Michael Jackson’s famous white glove is being auctioned on eBay – with the starting price set at $250,000. The diamond studded accessory, worn onstage by Jackson during the 1990s, was previously part of Liza Minnelli’s ex-husband David Gest’s private collection, and is now available to buy from a Paris-based seller. The online description [...]
10 Steps to Marketing With No Money
Jack Yoest: In the late 80′s Your Business Blogger was part of a medical device start-up. With no money. We were launching new products, with new technology, teaching new surgical techniques, new medicine. Conventional wisdom dictated hiring a half-dozen advanced-skill nurses to teach around the country. Our Board of Directors said no budget. This was [...]
Best and Worst of Making Money Online: Part 1
Make Money Online: In any case, just as a recap, 2005′s biggest money-making ventures for me are the following (approximately from highest to lowest): About.com AdSense Universal Class MyHelpHub Amazon.com Chitika
Charting Your Business Timeline
Entrepreneur: Most new businesses start much the same way. First there’s an idea for a product or service that customers will pay for. Next is a plan–written or not–to buy or build the products, or develop the service; locate the facilities, hire the people, develop the systems and raise the money to create, market, deliver [...]
Webwire: UPS today announced the launch of package shipping services for Canadian eBay users, enabling them to easily ship goods to buyers within or outside Canada via UPS. By integrating UPS service options directly into the Canadian eBay site, as is already the case on eBay’s U.S. site, users will be able to ship within [...]
