Archive for June 5th, 2006
Five Techniques for Using Web 2.0 to Reinvent the Customer Relationship
Web 2.0 Blog: Dramatically Lower the Experience Barrier Collect User (Customer) Contributions Enable Formation of Communities Become An Open Platform Provide Self-Evolving Customer Relationship Management
New Google Adsense API: User Gen Monetization Ho!
John Battelle: User generated content is hot – HOT! But if you’re a UGC (yup, I’m using the acronym) site, like RateItAll, Facebook, YouTube, or MySpace, how do you incent your members to post more great stuff, so you can make more money? Well, Google is only too happy to help you out there. Word [...]
Entrepreneur: Entrepreneurs are often told that it is a good idea to recruit an advisory board for their new business. In theory, this makes sense. In practice, however, it is very difficult to form an advisory board that is effective. My column this month is intended to provide some advice about advisors. Keep the following [...]
Competing With Wal-Mart? Try Raising Expectations — and Prices
Jim Hopkins: Neighborhood grocery stores are as scarce as hen’s teeth — even in densely populated cities like San Francisco — as Wal-Mart, Kroger, Safeway and other big chains grind independent grocers into dust. That’s why I’m so intrigued by the little Bi-Rite Market near my house, which about 10 years ago turned itself into [...]
Five Tips for Succeeding As a Young Entrepreneur
Startup Journal: If you’ve got a business idea you can’t stop talking about, why wait to flex your entrepreneurial muscles? Here are five tips to get an idea out of your head and into the marketplace. Take a calculated risk. Overcome early hurdles. Make the most of your school’s resources. Experienced professionals can help. Adopt [...]
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge.
The #1 Dumbest AdSense Mistake or How NOT to Earn $10,000/Month
Almost all AdSense publishers are looking for the most expensive keywords. Unfortunately, this strategy leaves a lot to be desired. If the keyword results in zero clicks per day, it doesn’t matter what your price is, there’s not profit! It’s cost/day (keyword price X clicks/day) that makes you rich, not keyword price itself. Here is [...]
New Curriculum Focuses on High-School Entrepreneurs
Inc.: High school teachers now have free online access to entrepreneurship course materials, under a new program launched by the National Federation of Independent Business’ Young Entrepreneur Foundation. The new curriculum module, called “Entrepreneur in the Classroom,” includes a series of teachers’ notes, activities, overhead slides, and quizzes, all in PDF format, available for download. [...]
Flickrpreneur: New Opportunities to Make Money With Flickr
Marketallica: In this picture, he shows his books. Everything seems usual, but not finished, he added some notes to pictures. On notes, he tells a bit about book and add link to amazon with his referral (check out here). It means, if you enjoyed Russell’s photos, you just look at; you can instantly buy it [...]
IdeoBlog: The International Association of Commercial Administrators collects state-by-state filings, including those of new business associations. I’ve found this data very valuable over the years in showing the competition among business forms. For some work using this data, see my article with Kobayashi, Choice of Form and Network Externalities. The latest IACA data is out, [...]
This week’s Carnival of Business is up at MyMoneyForest.
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Rethink(IP).
