Archive for May 2006
Franchises an Effective Way to Enter Business World
Franchise Blog: One of the most effective and easily accessible ways of starting an independent business is to buy into a franchise chain. Business model franchising offers the benefit of the franchise organisation’s established brand name, formal marketing programme, financial systems, work processes, centralised buying, staff training, and HR guidelines. Even so, many potential entrepreneurs [...]
Chuck Huckaby: Work at home moms could save western civilization. It’s not always about the money, for some people it can be about something much bigger.
Boy Scouts today don’t just learn about camping, canoeing and pioneering. Since 1997 Boy Scouts in the US can also earn an Entrepreneurship merit badge: Do TWO of the following: Sketch a prototype of your good or write a description of your service. Create the prototype. List all of the materials you used to make [...]
What to Do When You Are Waiting
Business Pundit: Starting a business isn’t something you should do without some serious thought. Timing plays an important role in the success of a new venture, and I am sure there are lots of you that want to do something but either don’t have an idea or don’t have the resources. A few of you [...]
Taxes, Tax Cheats And Hiding Money By PayPal
longislandpress: During the Internet boom, when everyone was a millionaire and life felt like every day was your birthday (complete with apple cobbler and ice cream on top), Congress was afraid that the party would come crashing down, or the cops would bust it up, or the lacrosse team would ruin everything. So they made [...]
Arctic Monkey’s Myspace Page on eBay
gigwise: The Arctic Monkeys have taken control on their own Myspace page after a fan tried to sell it on eBay. Apparently the person responsible for the band’s Myspace site tried to make a quick buck by cashing in on the Monkey’s success by launching an online auction. A statement on the Monkey’s official website [...]
pal-item.com: Calling all eBay fanatics or first-timers. The Richmond Post Office will conduct an eBay Day on Wednesday. The event is designed to teach eBay users how to make the service, and the U.S. Postal Service, work harder for them. The day will feature quick and convenient online shipping options the Postal Service offers eBay [...]
Brocktown News: A Chinese businessman has bought a MiG-21f plane from a U.S. seller on the online auction Web site eBay for $24,730 and plans to use it to decorate an empty space at his offices, a newspaper reported Sunday. “I like to collect valuable items. I have the buying power and my company has [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Interim Thoughts.
This week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction is up at Free Money Finance.
eBay Find of the Day: Evel Knievel’s Aston Martin
Autoblog: As an automaker best known for its voluptuous, curvy coupes, the Aston Martin Lagonda is a knife-edged enigma. The origami aggression of its exterior, its tech-laden interior, along with the sheer scale of the thing (over 17′ long) must’ve made it look like an aluminum-skinned spaceship when it hit the show scene in 1976. [...]
