Archive for March 2nd, 2006
Thanks for the birthday greetings! My wife didn’t put you up to this, did she?
Russell Beattie: The worst thing about all the Web 2.0 hype is the complete loss of business perspective. There’s a few companies out there that seem to get it but just about every other new website I’ve seen lately is nothing but features parading as businesses. via Business Opportunities Tools.
Dane Carlson is the mastermind behind this blog and a host of other great blogs in the Business Opportunities Network. George Bush and I would like to wish Dane a very Happy Birthday. P.S. No charge for this post. = )
eBay Consignment iPod Trade In
AuctionBytes: NextWorth is a new eBay consignment service. David Chen, Andrew Walsh and Scott Richardson launched NextWorth in November 2005 (http://www.nextworth.com). The company offers a “PreBay” service where items are listed locally before being listed on eBay. They also offer pick-up service, and use Independent Asset Consultants to bring in items. The company also launched [...]
Woman buys bargains on eBay and sells them in a retail outlet: Miller honed her skills and turned a hobby into a weekend business. Jill’s Closet, with the glittery curtain above folding closet doors, opened about a month ago at Capitol Flea Market. She and husband, Ralph, did the decorating. “My customers are all ages,” [...]
Cheap Hosting: Enhanced set-up, expanded design capabilities and further eBay integration are among the updates released today in ProStores 6.1, a turnkey ecommerce solution from eBay. According to Chris Tsakalakis, Senior Director of Advanced Solutions for eBay Inc., ”We are committed to providing online business owners with the tools they need to succeed. ProStores 6.1 [...]
The Carnival of Entrepreneurship
This week’s Carnival of Entrepreneurship is up at ePublishingDaily.com.
Winning the War on eBay Deadbeats
UPI.com: Imagine buying vintage Spiderman comics for $16,000 and receiving instead, a box of printer paper or losing a whopping $27,000 in purchasing a big rig that didn’t exist in the first place. These are just many of the online auction fraud horror stories that brothers Edward and Steve Klink compiled from their eBay watchdog [...]
Microsoft Live Expo Joins Google Base in Going after eBay
AuctionBytes: The ecommerce space continues to heat up with eBay competitors releasing services that are a cross between classified ads and eBay fixed-price listings. Microsoft launched its free online marketplace on Tuesday. Windows Live Expo, which had been code-named Fremont in alpha testing, is still in beta testing mode and is available only to U.S. [...]
Can Risk Taking and Originality Be Learned?
Fortune Small Business: Diana Reed has caught an entrepreneurial fever that is sweeping the nation’s campuses, as students jam into classes to learn how to launch, finance, and run their own companies. And we’re not just talking about B-school students. Fledgling engineers, teachers, artists, pharmacists, lawyers, nurses, and even dancers have heard the siren call [...]
Podcasting strategy for small business What I think is a much more viable business model is to start your business with a traditional revenue strategy and to use blogs and podcasts as marketing tools to put yourself in the public eye as a subject matter expert. For instance, a dry cleaner shou (tags: bizopblog business [...]
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Outer Space
Business 2.0: Let’s not wax sentimental about our space exploits thus far. The Apollo era was heroic, but beating the Soviets to the Moon never provided a compelling economic reason to return. (We didn’t even get Teflon or Tang as spinoffs–both were invented before 1960.) The shuttle and the international space station continued this record [...]
