Archive for June 15th, 2006
Being Good With Numbers Won’t Guarantee Success
Startup Journal: But before you jump ship from a steady gig at an accounting firm, know what you’re jumping into. “You really have to be motivated and like selling yourself” to start an independent tax practice, says Frank Salman, an accounting-practice consultant in Victorville, Calif. “Not everyone has that.” Often it’s best to first test [...]
Skype- Is it Really Worth $4.1 Billion
Tech Search We’ve finally seen more plans for eBay-Skype integration, and the upshot of them are clear: eBay got played for a sucker when it paid up to $4.1 billion for Skype. The newest plans show that there will be a new SkypeMe “Ask The Seller a Question” feature in 14 of eBay U.S categories. [...]
ProStores Six Makeover Winners
DM News Entrepreneur magazine and eBay’s ProStores selected six small businesses for an e-commerce makeover in the eBusiness Boost Challenge announced at the eBay Live conference at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas. The six winners are Racewax.com, Spirit Work Knitting and Designs Inc., American Diamond Importers, Moms on Edge and The Busted Knuckle [...]
eBayers Share Opinions with PayPal Panel
Auction Bytes While the PayPal panel at the eBay Live conference on Wednesday was lightly attended, those who were there had some strong feelings about using PayPal, primarily regarding cross-border trading and dispute resolution issues. One attendee had traveled all the way from the UK to make his point. He said he sells on eBay.com, [...]
WDBJ7 PayPal is a popular option for eBay shoppers to pay for their items. That makes PayPal users popular prey for the scam artists. The latest scam is an email being sent out saying that data was lost due to computer problems. It asks users to update their personal and financial information. These “spoof” [...]
Gbuy Not Direct Competition To PayPal
Reuters In ternet search leader Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is testing a system that aims to speed purchases online but bears no resemblance to the popular PayPal payments service of Web auctioneer eBay (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research), Google’s chief executive said on Thursday. Analysts have speculated whether Google would enter into direct competition [...]
Interview with eBay’s Government Relations People
Auction Bytes eBay’s Vice-President & Deputy General Counsel for Government Relations Tod Cohen sat down with AuctionBytes to discuss some of the lobbying efforts eBay conducts on behalf of users and itself. AuctionBytes: What do you actually do to help get eBay’s position across to legislators on Capitol Hill? Cohen: Main Street program is the [...]
Washington Post At the seminars here this year, eBay sellers are showing an amazing boost in familiarity with technology compared with similar sessions I attended last year and the year before. The exhibit floor at eBay Live. (Leslie Walker-The Washington Post) Yesterday I sat through a jam-packed session on “search engine optimization.” It was about [...]
Highlights of eBay Live in Las vegas
SF Gate Ebay Live, the online marketplace’s annual user convention, brought together a huge cross section of the Web site’s buyers and sellers this week in what is equal parts marketing extravaganza, gripe session and family reunion. The three-day event, which ends today, provided a window into the Internet’s biggest e-commerce community, where issues like [...]
eBay Sellers Seek Outside Networks To Help Grow
Auction Bytes Although most of the action at this year’s eBay Live conference takes place in the Mandalay Bay hotel Convention Center, eBay sellers and software companies, being the resourceful bunch they are, have a whole host of events going on around Vegas and in different parts of the convention hotel. eBay Sellers check [...]
Entrepreneur: I don’t think there’s ever been a time when so many moms have wanted to start their own businesses. Recent numbers from the Center for Women’s Business Research show that there are currently some 10.6 million women-owned firms in the United States. And while not all of these businesses are owned by women with [...]
Happy Magna Carta Day June 15Th
Work at Home Business Opportunities: Free Markets depend upon the government to punish wrongdoers (thieves) but also presume that the government is not the chief theif. This presumption reaches back in the history of the West but crystalizes at certain points such as today with the issuance of the Magna Carta… a limitation on the [...]
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The Entrepreneurial Melting Pot
Business Week: According to a series of recent surveys released by the U.S. Census Bureau, between 1997 and 2002, the total number of U.S. businesses grew by 10%. However, during the same time period, Asian-owned firms increased by 24%, Hispanic-owned businesses by 31%, and African-American-owned firms spiked 45%. According to the Census data, Asian-American-owned businesses [...]
