Archive for May 10th, 2006
Innovative Thinking Business Opportunity
Des Walsh: I have to wonder, how many people are there who are now leaving, or thinking of leaving the corporate or government world – the world of organizations – and contemplating what kind of a business they will set up or run, assuming they don’t want to just go fishin’ or vegetate? And surely [...]
→ procarpetsys.com Professional Carpet Systems was founded in 1978 by Joe and John Lunsford, whose mother, Jean Beason was an accomplished chemist. They wanted to find a way to extend the life of carpet when the carpet was still in good condition, but the appearance was unacceptable due to loss of coloring or the color [...]
Gas Crisis Is Good News for Fuel-Efficient Businesses
Entrepreneur: Gas prices this high for this long? It’s downright uncomfortable. In fact, it’s enough to get consumers to change their behavior. Rising prices have many consumers turning to alternatives– from car-sharing services to scooters–and entrepreneurs are reaping the rewards. Take Scott Griffith, CEO of Zipcar Inc. based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The $15 million car-sharing [...]
Innovation Comes from Small Business, Too
Jeff Cornwall: Another myth [about small businesss] is that innovation in our economy comes from VC backed high growth ventures, large corporations with big R&D budgets, or government backed research, but rarely from small businesses. A new study just released from the NFIB (all of their studies can be found here) shows the fallacy of [...]
Please Stop With Your Chinese Math
Chinese Math: Let’s start by explaining the term (which comes in several forms, but ‘chinese math’ is most common around here). Investors love companies that can a)stand on their own two feet early so that they don’t require much more investment and b)have huge market potential. So entrepreneurs try to convince investors that the market [...]
hotelmarketing.com: “Only the paranoid survive,’’ eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman told analysts attending a presentation at the online auctioneer’s San Jose headquarters Thursday. Signs that Google may try to become a force in eBay’s e-commerce and online payment businesses, coupled with investor concern over slow growth and stiff competition in markets like China and South [...]
PayPal and Equifax Team Up to Provide Credit Alerts and ID Protection Hotline
businesswire: Equifax (NYSE:EFX) and PayPal today announced a new credit alert program that provides PayPal account holders in the United States with free monitoring of their credit records. Through this relationship, PayPal users receive free early warnings alerting them to activity on their Equifax credit report. PayPal users can monitor their personal and financial information [...]
art news blog: eBay may be a great tool for contemporary painters to sell their work online as the paintings usually only sell for hundreds or perhaps a few thousand at most. So investors can afford to take a risk on the work. But when paintings start selling for very large sums, art collectors seem [...]
getlofi: Finally after years and years of waiting, eBay has enabled its searches to be RSS feeds. To create a feed simply go to the Advanced search page or any search page for that matter, and fill in the desired fields. The resulting search page will have a tiny tiny RSS button at the very [...]
How to get 64,000 People to look at your eBay auction
Answer: Nudity or the perception of nudity.
Writers Weekly: As for the eBay thing… Being a doll collector, I buy most of my stuff on eBay, and I’ve sold some there, too. And I also collect books (mainly older books, first editions, or special editions), so I know what you mean about it being better to list a book in the subject [...]
→ homes4salebyownernetwork.com The internet has changed the way consumers interact with the world. People purchase goods and services and gather information in cyberspace. And now, thanks to Homes 4Sale by Owner Network, people can even buy and sell houses online–without the costly services of a middleman. The Toledo, Ohio-based franchise features a high-tech website on [...]
Dreaming up the Perfect Sales Pitch
Business Week: All sales pros know that successful selling starts long before you actually meet with a prospective customer. But regardless of what motivates you — landing the Golden Egg account or losing a client to the competition from Heck, my ideal sales-presentation scenario could help. Here goes: Look Sharp, Look Ahead Prepare to Sell [...]
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Networking Can Help Medical Billers
Wall Street Journal: Small start-up medical-billing services like yours often have trouble getting doctors to take them seriously, and here’s why: Health-care billing, as you know, is an extremely complex task with government regulations and compliance rules that constantly change. Even small billing errors can lead to health-care providers being underpaid, or government audits and [...]
How To Avoid Negative Feedback On eBay
Dan Thompson: If you are a seller on eBay, your feedback profile is the most important part of your business. One negative comment from an unscrupulous buyer could damage your reputation and more importantly damage your sales and profits! As a seller on eBay you want to avoid getting negative feedback comments at all costs, [...]
With all of the server trouble last week, I missed linking to the Carnival of Entrepreneurship. Last week’s Carnival of Entrepreneurship was on Wil Schroter’s blog.
→ discoverymap.com Visitors to a new city will always need accommodation, food, shops and a map to lead the way. So what better way to combine both the advertising needs of local businesses with the navigating needs of tourists than by creating hand-illustrated maps with enough space on the back to list 200 advertisers? That’s [...]
