Archive for April 5th, 2006
Business Week: Local TV advertising has a bad rap. “I had visions of cheap, awful, late-night cable access commercials with really bad production values,” says Brad Kriser, owner of The Barking Lot, a 15-employee dog-care facility in Chicago with $2.3 million in annual sales. It doesn’t have to be that way. Spot Runner, a Los [...]
WordPress: Related Posts Across Multiple Blogs?
Does anyone know of a WordPress plugin like Related Posts that will include posts from multiple blogs? Anyone want to write one? I’ll pay!
Episode #30 of Venture Voice is online: Scott Johnson is a long-time entrepreneur on the bleeding edge of technology. He started his first business in 1987 and successfully sold it. Then he rode the dot com wave up and down with Mascot Network, a company that was trying to do what Facebook does now by [...]
FTC vs. the Invention Promotion Companies
I missed this last week, but Stephen M. Nipper of the Invention Blog emailed me: The FTC took down one of the invention promotion companies (Davison & Associates) this week, to the tune of a judgment against them for $26,000,000. More from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Yahoo!: Yahoo! Small Business is dedicated to helping small businesses succeed. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we are committed to helping your business-and others throughout the Gulf Coast-get back on your feet. And on Friday, April 7, we’re putting our people where our passion is. Yahoo! employees from around the country will be on [...]
eBay: Is your information safe?
addict3d: The eBay web site contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. I. Description eBay is a popular auction web site. When an eBay user posts an auction, eBay allows SCRIPT tags to be included in the auction description. This creates a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the eBay website. More information about cross-site scripting is available in [...]
forbes: Deutsche Bank Securities cut the price target on eBay to $40 from $44 and said the risk is rising for shares of the Internet auction firm as competition from Google looms. Trading in eBay (nasdaq: EBAY – news – people ) shares will “remain choppy through the summer months,” wrote analyst Jeetil Patel in [...]
CCN Matthews: In order to acquire funds to produce a short movie, Martin Plourde a Montrealer, will try in the next few months to become the Ebay member with the worst profile in history. To achieve this, he is selling defective invisible objects. The buyer who wins the auction must play the role of an [...]
eBay Canada – Entrepreneur of the Year
auctionbytes: eBay is holding its second annual Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year awards. To be eligible, sellers must be powersellers in good-standing, posting a minimum of ten listings per month. Entrants must register to enter the competition and answer a series of questions, such as how eBay has contributed to their success. The first prize [...]
eBay Customer Service – Lousy?
Mercury News: Ebay, the wildly-popular San Jose-based Internet auction site, is known worldwide as a good place to buy and sell. But it has a dark side when you have trouble â lousy customer service. Recently, I asked readers to send me their experiences with eBay â good or bad. Sixteen responded. The score was [...]
Gladys Edmunds: Technology is a reality, and it is here to stay. To many who are losing and have lost jobs, technology looks like an enemy. And yet even technology needs innovative and creative entrepreneurs that can develop and distribute services and products to make things work better. Often it’s the turbulence, catastrophes and confusion [...]
Looking to Wealthy Women to Fund a Business
Fortune Small Business: Angel investing has long been a boys club. Women today make up only 7.5% of the country’s 225,000 angels — individual investors who take equity stakes in startups — according to professor Jeffrey Sohl, director of the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. The good news, says Sohl, [...]
Business Plans Aren’t Just for Startups
Bplans Blog: Ask the owner of a small-to-medium company about a business plan. Expect the answer: “Business plan? but I’m not a start-up. Why would I want a business plan?” They don’t all answer that way, but too many do, and it’s a shame. The business planning process is such a great tool for growing [...]
