Archive for February 28th, 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 [...]
