Archive for March 20th, 2006
Forbes: It takes money to make money, right? The old adage may hold in the financial markets, but when it comes to starting a business, it rings hollow, says Erik Hurst, a 33-year-old associate professor of economics at quant haven University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. In a recent paper, Hurst, along with colleague [...]
Growing a Business Website: Fix the Basics First
Jakob Nielsen: Here are the biggest issues that led to lost business value in some of our recent consulting projects: An e-commerce site lost millions of dollars because overly aggressive homepage promotions made users distrust the price of any product that was not on sale. This is a classic example of the importance of trust-enhancing [...]
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This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up at AllThingsFinancial.
Tahoe Bananza: What started as a volunteer service, helping friends and family sell their old items on eBay, has become an upstart business for Incline resident Nicholaus Harris. “I had a friend who had bought a new computer. She was just going to throw away her old computer because it had a non-functional hard-drive,” Harris [...]
Auctionbytes: If you operate an eBay Store, you know that Store categories are like the aisles, or departments in a bricks and mortar retail establishment. If you sell shoes on eBay, one category might be “men’s,” another “children’s,” another “women’s,” and so on. Until this week eBay limited us to creating 20 custom Store categories [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at CaseySoftware.com.
AuctionBytes: eBay is a popular marketplace for all kinds of photo gear, from the newest digital cameras to rare antiques and accessories. And since photography is one of the most popular and accessible hobbies in the world, I find that my company’s consignment sellers, called FoundValue eSpecialists(TM), are often asked by clients to sell camera [...]
