Archive for March 23rd, 2006
Google Adsense Affiliate Program
ECommerce-Guide.com: While most Web surfers have no doubt seen countless sites with the usual Google-sponsored text ads, they are likely seeing more of a new program Google launched in November. The “Referrals” program — aimed at promoting the Firefox Web browser with integrated Google search toolbar or its AdSense program — now ups the ante [...]
Figuring Your Real Hourly Rate
About: The place to start is you. What’s your target salary? And let’s be realistic here. If you have employees, you’ll need to add up all the salaries. On top of that, you’ll need to figure in other associated costs like taxes, FICA, insurance, etc. A safe figure is 25-30%. I lean toward 30%. The [...]
Here’s one for all you flyboy conspiracy theorists – the chance to own your very own AH64A/D Longbow Apache chopper – in any colour you like as long as it’s black: You are bidding for a Pre-owned Mission Damaged AH64A/D Longbow Apache Helicopter in Civil Configuration Single Pilot I.F.R.with NVG’s FLIR equipped and Media Broadcasting [...]
eBay plans service to make payments using cell phones
Mercury News: Paypal, the online payment service owned by eBay Inc., has begun testing a new offering that allows people to make and receive payments using cell phones and other mobile devices. Paypal Mobile is being tested by an unspecified number of eBay employees and will be available to the public in the United States, [...]
Husband Sells Unique Ad Space On Ebay
First Coast News: When Jeff and Rhonda Froelich wanted a creative way to raise capital for their autistic son, they decided to use their head. Jeff’s head, actually. “It’s shiny. It’s tan. It’s round. It’s perfect!” exclaimed Wife Rhonda. It was her idea to auction off the space on the back of her husband’s bald [...]
eBay.ie launches anti-phishing service
ENN: Online auction website eBay.ie has launched a new service to help protect users against ‘phishing’ e-mails which attempt to gain personal details from members. The “My Messages” service is an attempt to get around the problem of spoof e-mails sent to customers purporting to come from eBay. Such messages often ask users for information [...]
Daily Record: Feedback, Dock said, is essentially how to earn a reputation for doing business online. “The gist is, feedback is what keeps eBay running. Ninety percent of the people you meet will do business fairly and honestly,” Sparano said. Selling items online was the main focus of the presentation, and both Sparano and Dock [...]
Walla! restarts an Israeli version of eBay
haaretz.com: Walla! announced yesterday two new services which are local versions of eBay and Paypal. Walla!Buy is an online market and auction site, while Walla!Pay allows users to make secure payments without revealing their credit card details. The development of the sites, similar in design to the U.S. sites that they emulate, took more than [...]
USA Today: With 200 million people in the USA using cellphones, countless thousands of phones are lost or damaged every day. Savvy entrepreneurs are finding ready customers online seeking alternatives to contracts and full-price phones. Type “used cellphone” into a search engine, and scores of possibilities pop up. CraytonElectronics.com, Cellphoneshop.net and usedcellphones.com offer online stores [...]
This week’s Carnival of Entrepreneurship is up at Jeff Cornwall’s The Entrepreneurial Mind.
Three Good Reasons To Start A Company
Philip Greenspun: Don’t start your own company because you want to be your own boss. There are three ways in which a company can make more profit than an investment in a Vanguard S&P 500 index fund: You know how to do something that nobody else can do (the typical MIT tech spinoff approach) You [...]
Entrepreneur: Does personality matter in becoming a successful entrepreneur? Recent studies say yes, successful entrepreneurs share a number of common personality traits, and these traits are the predominant indicators of their success-outweighing education, family ties, skills and experience. Moreover, people who choose business ventures that are in sync with their true personalities tend to experience [...]
Yummy Yummy: Top 7 Business Lessons from the Wiggles – Top7-Or-10-Tips (tags: business wiggles bizopblog) Forthcoming: process flow (tags: business process bizopblog) Top 10 Sources Look, we’re featured! (tags: bizopblog business news)
Doug Hall, one half of the Brain Brew team, is now appearing in the ABC television series American Inventor. He recently sent me this email: On Thursday I entered the world of Reality TV in the USA on American Inventor. For ABC-TV American Inventor was a huge hit – the 2-hour special was #1 on [...]
Reveries Magazine: “In a world of glossy food magazines, $50 cookbooks and television hosts who seem to care more about make-up than marinades, a quieter, cheaper and decidedly more old-fashioned way to explore cooking is getting new play� — on the radio, reports Kim Severson in The New York Times. “It’s not like TV, where [...]
