Archive for June 8th, 2006
How to Succeed As an Affiliate on the Net
Harvey Segal: When a company has a product or a service that they wish to sell they will often enlist ‘affiliates’ to do the job of finding customers for them. You may know an affiliate by another name, for example: agent, reseller, associate, communicator. Once the affiliate has managed to get the customer to make [...]
PayPal Brings on 5 Mega Companies for UK Text Service
FinExtra Online payments firm PayPal has signed up EMI, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Oxfam, Stuff and Maxim magazines to use its text-based m-payments service in the UK. The brands will become the first to enable shoppers to use their mobile phones to buy items via PayPal’s m-payments service, which was launched to its 10 [...]
Ebay’s Paypal Supporting Internet Gambling Ban
FOX News Rep. Bob Goodlatte is in the process of pushing through Congress a bill that would “ban” Internet gambling. I’ve previously explained why the bill is bad public policy. But since that column, it has come to light that online auction giant eBay has thrown its support behind Goodlatte’s efforts. Why would an Internet [...]
How to Start a One-Ingredient Restaurant
MSNBC: These days, the name of the game in the restaurant industry is differentiation. If you specialize in one product and you know your stuff, hungry customers will flock to you for a taste. “There are currently about 1 million restaurants in the U.S., representing about $430 billion a year in sales, with [about] $1.3 [...]
Springwise: Last year, we wrote about three fix-and-freeze companies that allow customers to assemble prepped food into healthy dinners. The concept has exploded in the past year. Entrepreneurs across the US have started their own dinner assembly stores, and the field’s leader, Dream Dinners, has expanded from 49 locations in April 2005 to 163 today, [...]
Paypal Users Still Targeted for Identy Theft
Consumer Affairs News Among the spam messages hitting consumers’ email inboxes lately is a message that appears to be from PayPal, warning the recipient that they are the apparent target of hackers. The message, however, is designed to steal sensitive information from anyone who responds. The message bears the PayPal logo and the bright graphics [...]
Ebay’s ProStores Reveils Newest Upgrade
Cheap Hosting Directory Customizable online store solution for small and medium-size businesses, ProStores, has unveiled its newest software upgrade, version 7.0. As the company’s most significant upgrade since fall 2005, the latest version allows ProStores merchants to set up and customize the design of online stores and streamline listings to the eBay marketplace. Chris Tsakalakis, [...]
Ebay Sellers Imagination Strikes Again
Auction Bytes Eight eBay sellers teamed up to auction themselves off on eBay, offering the opportunity to advertise the winning bidder’s product or service at the fifth annual eBay Live conference taking place in Las Vegas next week. Online casino GoldenPalace.com won the auction with a winning bid of $13,000. The eight sellers will wear [...]
Almost any “how to start a business” book will give advice on developing an exit strategy when building a business. This allows you to recover from a failed business as easily as possible. For instance… a place to sell off left over inventory, leaving enough in your savings to get you through a few months [...]
This week’s Carnival of Entrepreneurship is up at A Thought Over Coffee.
Why a New Idea Isn’t the Key to Entrepreneurship
Business Pundit: I used to think the key to entrepreneurship was a novel idea. Isn’t that what most of us believe? I wanted to invite a new high tech widget or offer a cool new service that no one else had thought of. That was the way I would make my millions. The first blow [...]
Forbes Small Business: Worried about an elderly relative who lives alone? Upset that you can’t keep your unblinking eye on her 24 hours a day to ensure she’s safe and healthy? Living Independently Group, a three-year-old New York City company, is offering what it bills as the next best thing: sensors throughout her home to [...]
Who Says You Have to Take Risks?
Gladys Edmunds: Recently while being interviewed for a small business journal, the interviewer asked if I thought anyone could own and operate a business. I told him I believe anyone who has the desire to own a business owes it to themselves to give it a go. Before I could continue, the interviewer interrupted and [...]
Entrepreneurship Is in the Blood
Entrepreneurs’ Viewpoint Blog: Yesterday on the BBC news website there was an article about a UK-US study that has found our genes “are crucial in determining whether we are entrepreneurial and likely to become self-employed.” When looking at sets of identical and fraternal twins the study found that the siblings in the identical sets were [...]
