Archive for June 6th, 2006
Tips for Making Money Selling Text Links With Adbrite
Yaro Starak: Never start your pricing too high. It is better to error on the low side and get advertisers hooked, because then they will be willing to pay higher prices for your inventory when the pricing increases. Make sure your placement is worth buying, the popular sellers in the marketplace tend to be sites [...]
Young Entrepreneur Competition in Colorado
BloggingBaby: Young entrepreneurs in Colorado may have a chance to participate in a competition to showcase their original ideas and compete for a monetary prize. The deadline for applications for the 2006 Celebration for Young Entrepreneurs is June 15. Children and young adults [in Colorado], ages 6-21, who have a business are invited to apply. [...]
Wikia hires eBay VP as new CEO
bizjournals: Wikia Inc., a for-profit company founded 18 months ago by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, hired Gil Penchina as its CEO on Monday. Penchina was vice president and general manager at eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). Wales and Angela Beesley started Menlo Park-based Wikia to allow for subscription and advertising supported “wikis” or user-created communities similar to [...]
OnlyOnce: These people come up with ideas and love incubating them but may or may not try to run them longer term. They: generate an idea a minute have a major case of ADD are easily distracted by shiny objects would rather generate 1 good and idea and 19 bad ones than just 1 good [...]
mediabuyerplanner: eBay will be launching eBay Blogs to give sellers an opportunity to market themselves, and also plans to launch an eBay Community Wiki, AuctionBytes.com reports (via MarketingVOX and Micro Persuasion). Both will be officially launched at eBay Live, in Las Vegas, June 13-15. eBay is already using blogs and wikis internally, having changed its [...]
Anita Campbell: In the aftermath of the DotCom Bust, bootstrapping is an in topic. These days it is almost trendy to be bootstrapping your business. Of course, millions of entrepreneurs have known that all along and concentrated on quietly building their businesses. Bootstrapping takes time. Your growth is limited by the cash you have coming [...]
More On Tiny Businesses Like SingleStat.us
I had an interesting exchange with developer and entrepreneur Jackson Miller this afternoon about about SingleStat.us. He said: I have talked about businesses based around MySpace with several people, and I may be the only one who thinks it is not a good market, but here are my reasons why: MySpace doesn’t even break even [...]
webpronews: No explanation has been given for the demise of the reality show “Buy It Now,” which ABC has been forced to remove from its summer lineup, a Broadcasting & Cable article noted. Online selling site eBay would have been central to the plot, which had families selling assorted possessions through the site to fund [...]
Steve Rucinski has reviewed the three-minute podcast BizIII on Small Business Trends: In daily, small digestible chunks Mike and Les provide you the latest insight into online marketing, media, applications and more. I think this podcast is a great way for the person who is fairly new to the latest in internet marketing to get [...]
Life Beyond Code: Be it in winning or be it in losting, timing plays an important role. One of the reasons why you should not try to duplicate somebody’s success. While you may be able to copy the actions by this successful person, you can be certain that you can’t recreate the timing of those [...]
This week’s Brain Brew Radio episode is online: Eric Eifrig comes back to Brain Brew to find out from Doug and Dave what the next step is now that he has set up his law practice and begun working on his marketing… Dave and Doug help Jeff figure out how to get his “salesman’s handbook” [...]
eBay Launches Paypal Plus Credit Card
thewisemarketer: E Consumer Finance, a unit of General Electric Company, with eBay and PayPal, is launching a new PayPal Plus Credit Card, a MasterCard that features a rewards programme for PayPal users. The card is an expansion of the relationship originally created in 2004 for GE to offer PayPal Buyer Credit, a private label, revolving [...]
Slow Leadership: Be realistic Be rigorous about setting boundaries Avoid perfectionism Set and keep to rational priorities Use your brain, not just your ability to slog away It’s fine to be self-centered. It’s your business Many entrepreneurs try to grow too fast Stay fit and agile Read the whole article…
Jeff Cornwall: One factor that many attribute as an engine of our entrepreneurial economy in the US is our culture, which has over time supported individualism, creativity, and self-determination. A study released on Wednesday by the SBA Office of Advocacy shows evidence of our grass-root entrepreneurial spirit. America’s 1.6 million home-based sole proprietors generate $533 [...]
Tech Crunch: Want to know when that cute friend of yours breaks up with her boyfriend? Check out David Weekly’s SingleStat.us, a service that let’s you type in anyone’s Myspace profile and be notified by email if their relationship status changes. It costs $3.95 to sign up for unlimited notifications, and they’ll waive the fee [...]
The Entrepreneurial Mind: The old advice used to be “go and work for someone for several years before you try and start a business.” The thought was that you needed to learn about business, grow up, save some money, etc. Young aspiring entrepreneurs were discouraged from jumping in too quickly. I rarely hear that kind [...]
Entrepreneurship on the Rise in U.S.
I was just saying to someone yesterday that the entrepreneurial lifestyle is the new hip hop. Anita Campbell: Entrepreneurship in the United States is on the rise — with the figures to back it up. That’s according to the latest U. S. Census numbers and estimates by the SBA’s Office of Advocacy. Using the latest [...]
eBay figurine scammer gets 6 years in the slammer
freeP.com:Â A former White Lake Township figurine dealer who ripped off more than $300,000 from eBay customers in an online scam was sentenced Monday to more than six years in prison â a hefty penalty that surprised both the prosecution and defense. âI have to send a message to Americans that there will be swift [...]
Younger Siblings, Better Entrepreneurs?
BusinessWeek.com: There are positives and negatives — and examples of successful business people — from all the places in the birth-order spectrum. For instance, first-born entrepreneurs tend to be more extroverted and confident than their younger siblings. … Second-borns have a lot of the classic entrepreneur personality traits: They’re creative, risk-taking, flexible, and more likely [...]
