Archive for February 22nd, 2006
Taking the Pulse of Family Business
Business Week: Family-owned businesses continue to form the backbone of the American economy. Consider the following statistics reported by the University of Southern Maine’s Institute for Family-Owned Business: Some 35% of Fortune 500 companies are family-controlled. Family businesses account for 50% of U.S. gross domestic product. They generate 60% of the country’s employment and 78% [...]
Pete Caputa: Sales happen more frequently if you ask more people to buy your services.
Shifting Your Customers’ Expectations
Eric Searing at Biz Story: I went into a “hamburger restaurant� the other day. Not the usual mcChains but a different concept. You still placed your order at the front, but then you took a number and found a seat. A few moments later a server brought you your food. While I was engaged in [...]
Dating Affiliates Tune into WebmasterRadio
PR Web: WebmasterRadio.FM, a free, business, 24/7 internet radio network, announces the iDate 2006 radio special featuring the FriendFinderInc.com network, to air Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 3:00 p.m. EST. Hosted by FriendFinderInc.com Senior Affiliate Manager Sagi Cezana, Senior Online Media Buyer Sarah Prescott and WebmasterRadio.FM’s Brandy Shapiro-Babin, the iDate special will cover all aspects [...]
I certainly would love to have one of these little auction guys take off, but the reality is, unless you see Google or Microsoft somewhere in the name of the auction site, it is not likely much of a challenge for eBay. Mercury News: Recently, Sari Hirsch was looking online for a DVD of the [...]
Media and the eBay Marketplace
iMedia: Auctions only work when the value of a product is indeterminate, as I wrote. That could be either a warehouse full of 1994 calendars or a Van Gogh. This economic esprit can apply to some media, like the Angelfire crap that used to make up the bulk of Flycast’s blind-bid media network, or perhaps [...]
Starting An eBay Business – Accounting and Tax Tips
ByteStart: The internet auction site eBay has become a global phenomenon in recent years. Today, an estimated 135 million users around the world currently use the service to buy and sell things as diverse as mobile homes, jewellery, and celebrity clothes. Its popularity has also seen the site become an obvious business opportunity for entrepreneurs. [...]
Financial Fitness for Entrepreneurs
Kauffman eVenturing: While creating a growth business can be exhilarating, many entrepreneurs – especially those starting a company for the first time – don’t pay enough attention to some core issues surrounding the financial management of their businesses. Often, founders don’t have formal training in finance – they’re “techies� launching the next Apple Computer or [...]
Entrepreneur: When Wendy Kaufman started her business four years ago, she got a lot of input from people she knew-some useful, some not. The worst detractors cited statistics about small-business failure. “They tell you 90 percent of small businesses fail within five years,” says Kaufman, the 43-year-old president of Balancing Life’s Issues Inc., an executive [...]
» Website Value 101 – How to Appraise a Website – Stuntdubl – SEO Consultant If you own a website, you should understand how to buy or sell one. Buying and selling is at the basis of any viable business. The web business sure has changed the ways of thinking about business with wild valuationn, [...]
Sell on eBay without the extra work
Boston.com: On Sunday, Bob Golub posted 10 auctions on eBay, including listings for a mink coat, a vintage comb and brush set, and an embroidery tool. But it’s not stuff he found while rummaging through his basement. Golub owns the QuikDrop franchise in Sudbury, a storefront that sells things on eBay for people. The store [...]
Daily India: Ebay is the ‘BEST’ opportunity you can use right now to make money online in the dropshipping business from the comfort of your own home. Thousands of people just like you use eBay auctions on a daily basis to sell and buy products on the Internet; now it’s your time to START your [...]
