Archive for June 26th, 2006
Enterprising Soldiers Start Their Own ISPs in Iraq
Localist Magazine: Since the military provides just 6 to 12 computers for every 1,000 or so troops, time limits of 10 to 15 minutes per day are often enforced at Morale Welfare Recreation Cafés (the complicated name for military internet cafés). Anyone who sorts through spam, reads forwarded articles and jokes, then tries to respond [...]
Fortune Small Business: The company planned to call its patented product MOLLI (medicine-opening lid-lifting instrument) until a product specialist they met at the University of Michigan persuaded Robert to change the shape and name of the opener – and base those on a cat, a beloved pet symbolizing independence. “We did a complete overhaul a [...]
Big Firms Can Lead to Big Frustration
Startup Journal: Michele Bolgla had just settled in at her desk with a morning cup of coffee and some industry publications when a headline caught her eye. She and her husband Mitchell had been selling men’s T-shirts to a large retail chain, which had just announced that it was shutting down its men’s section. The [...]
Imagine LLC: Just because you have a technology does not mean you should use it. Salespeople seem to be addicted to e-mail. I guess it’s easier to send an e-mail and hope that you made a point then it is to pick up the phone and find out for sure. Don’t get me wrong. I [...]
Today on LifeHacker, Keith Robinson describes his perfect home office: Mixing your work with your home life can be tricky, but I’m giving it a good shot. I recently moved into a new home and as I regularly work from home, I claimed one of our three bedrooms as my office – or what I [...]
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Mighty Bargain Hunter.
 Ezine Articles Have you seen any sellers on eBay which shows a âstarâ? and the word âPowerSellerâ? by the side of their names? PowerSellers are eBayâs top sellers who have sustained a consistent high volume of monthly sales, a high level of total 98% positive feedback or better, and have met a threshold of compliance [...]
Wholesale Buying Tips For eBay
Ezine Articles Wholesale buying by eBay sellers represents a growing percentage of the wholesale market. With eBay expected to surpass 200 million registered users in the near future, there will be plenty of more opportunities for eBay sellers to sell merchandise. The best source for the merchandise that eBay sellers need will come from the [...]
Be Flexible When Selling On eBay
http://www.ezinearticles.com/?The-Elusive-eBay-Product-Niche&id=224441 There’s nothing more disappointing than doing the research, getting the product, and then finding that no one wants to buy it. It can also be quite a shock. It’s not unusual to research the item, see it listed in eBay’s hot list, hear everyone talking about it…and still no one buys. This is one [...]
 The Galveston County News Want a bit of Elvis? EBay offers almost 16,000 items bearing some relation to the King of Rock âNâ Roll. Thatâs twice as many as a search for âJesusâ? brings up. But find a saintâs image on a soda cracker, or a Madonnaâs on a muffin and you have premiere fodder [...]
Photography Still A Center Stage for eBay
AuctionBytes eBay sales frequently depend upon eye-grabbing descriptions, but without a picture, the ultimate auction value can suffer. At this year’s eBay Live conference in June, eBay expanded their photography education from previous years. eBay offered both an educational seminar (Basic Digital Photography to Make You an eBay PowerSeller – 1.5 hours) and a computer [...]
eBay Live Shares Global Effect
AuctionBytes Attendees at eBay’s fifth annual user conference in Las Vegas this month had plenty of news thrown their way. eBay turned “Web 2.0″ by adding blogs and wiki to the site. Skype was hyped. And eBay vowed to begin enforcing its policy against excessive shipping charges. You can read about these announcements in this [...]
eBay’s Sales Records Help Develope the Market
Nashua Telegraph Forget miracle medicines, advanced aeronautics or genetically modified crops. When it comes to business research, the biggest laboratory in the world isn’t at Pfizer, General Electric or Monsanto. It’s online, at eBay.com, where everyone from university scholars to conventional retailers are carefully studying the auctions of baby pajamas, home board games and other [...]
AuctionBytes Nearly every eBay seller has had this experience: You list an item, perhaps a rare-ish collectible, and after a day or two you notice a 5 in that item’s Number of Watchers column indicating 5 people are watching your item. “Great!” you say to yourself. “There are sure to be some bids now.” But [...]
Insider eBay Tip to Get the Bargins
PR Web As a buyer you are trying to find bargains i.e listings with the best price (Buy It Now Items) or listings with the fewest bids (Auction Items). Generally these listing are the ones that get the least amount of visitors, and most of the time it is because of missing keywords (Product Serial, [...]
Selling Garbage Packaged in Garbage
How would you like to start a company that almost has a negative cost of goods? Inc. has a profile: If you’ve browsed in the garden section of your local Home Depot or Wal-Mart recently, you may have seen a new plant food somewhere north of the begonias and south of the perlite. It comes [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Financial Methods.
