Archive for May 11th, 2006
One Hour Air Conditioning & Heating
→ onehourair.com One Hour Air Conditioning & Heating® is the nation’s first heating and air conditioning service company that promises their customers on-time service or you don’t pay a dime®. How can they promise that? People, culture and technology. One Hour goes to extraordinary lengths to hire, train and cultivate the very best, most talented [...]
→ m2simple.com Mike Ferry, the founder of Maintenance Made Simple, was fed up with his options for home maintenance. He exhausted yellow page listing trying to get someone to answer the phone. He couldn’t get anyone to show up on time, if at all. And if they did show up, they never honored their quoted [...]
Handypro Handyman Services Inc.
→ handypro.com HandyPro® specializes in helping the homeowner, business or property manager to have minor repairs and maintenance jobs completed professionally, in a timely manner, and guarantees the work to the customers satisfaction. At HandyPro®, the difference is that they are committed to providing their franchisees with the highest level of personalized service and systems. [...]
Shimon Sandler: One-word keywords are highly competitive and harder to rank in the SERP’s than 2+ keyword phrases. One word keywords are typically broad, and generic, and attract a wide range of audience. Which means some of your website visitors won’t be so targeted, and possibly not interested in your product/service offering. Additionally, most of [...]
Seller Battles eBay to Recover Store Name
Seller Battles eBay to Recover Store Name: Long time eBay seller Bobby Beeman uncovered a flaw in an eBay Stores naming policy that allowed another user open a Store under the same name as Beeman’s User ID. But had to battle eBay before he could reopen his Store under his own name. Beeman registered the [...]
eBay Sellers Can Offer Rewards Program to Spur Repeat Sales
eBay Sellers Can Offer Rewards Program to Spur Repeat Sales: eBay sellers can now offer reward programs for their customers. Merchants who accept PayPal payments can operate a turn-key reward program for customers through the new MyStoreRewards customer loyalty service, offered by MyStoreCredit Inc.”MyStoreRewards is a simple, low-cost reward program for online merchants, and we’re [...]
eBay to use Skype for pay-per-lead ads
eBay to use Skype for pay-per-lead ads: eBay intends to integrate Skype into its auction service to further facilitate communication between buyers and sellers on the site, CEO Meg Whitman said at its Analyst Day late last week. The company also plans to use Skype to launch a pay-per-lead ad system to increase revenue on [...]
The Korea Times : eBayâs Korean Unit Apologizes: The South Korean unit of U.S. auction giant eBay Inc. apologized Wednesday for using online ads featuring inappropriate film clips.âWe deeply apologize to our customers for causing concerns by posting some inappropriate video clips,â? Internet Auction Co., controlled by the San Jose, Californiabased eBay, said in a [...]
→ profit-tell.com PR seems like the type of business that couldn’t be franchised, but Richard and Christine Shock have developed a proprietary three-tier system that they say benefits both franchisees and their clients. “It’s a differentiator in the market, and enables franchisees to address the specific needs of any size client, from entrepreneurial startups to [...]
→ profit-tell.com Profit-Tell has got its ear to the ground: The company assists their business clients in audio marketing efforts, be it on-hold promotions, informational CDs, website narration tours or overhead announcements. Franchisees serve as marketing consultants who provide advertising and marketing solutions, while the headquarters provides all after-sale support, such as the creation of [...]
eBay will launch Paypal dispute resolution
auctionbytes: PayPal will launch a Dispute Resolution process similar to the one on its parent site eBay. All “Item Not Received” disputes involving eBay items paid with PayPal will be directed to the new PayPal Dispute Resolution process, instead of being directed to the claim process as they are currently. When a buyer [...]
→ allovermedia.com With 25 franchisees located in 30 U.S. markets, AllOver Media, which started franchising in 2002, already has a far-reaching presence. And similar to Gotcha Mobile Media, its advertising concepts are designed to steal the attention of today’s mobile consumers. Based in Maple Grove, Minnesota, the franchise specializes in four advertising methods: indoor print [...]
How Many Hours a Day Should You Work on Your Startup?
Jason Reuben: A grunt doesn’t take care of themselves, they work work and work some more. Every person has a breaking point, after the tenth hour trying to figure out which supplier to choose you start losing efficiency. Your brain creativity slows down, your mood takes a turn for the worst and your accuracy dwindles [...]
Small Firms Try out New Advertising
Startup Journal: The Internet is helping small businesses alter the way they sell themselves. Some small-business owners are forsaking traditional advertising venues for online advertising — including ads in search engines Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. and free listings in online classifieds sites like Craigslist. Others are using Internet firms like Spot Runner Inc., which [...]
Entrepreneurs Also Innovators, National Small-Business Poll Finds
NFIB: That small business on the corner might appear to be just another little enterprise trying to make its way in the American marketplace, but it might also be creating something that could change our lives forever. According to an National Federation of Independent Business Small-Business Poll devoted to innovation, between 5 percent and 15 [...]
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
Paul Graham: The startups we’ve funded so far are pretty quick, but they seem quicker to learn some lessons than others. I think it’s because some things about startups are kind of counterintuitive. We’ve now invested in enough companies that I’ve learned a trick for determining which points are the counterintuitive ones: they’re the ones [...]
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