Archive for June 29th, 2006
How to Make Money With Google Checkout
Today Google released their much anticipated PayPal competitor, Google Checkout. According to the NY Times: Google is charging merchants 20 cents plus 2 percent of the purchase price to process card transactions, less than most businesses pay for credit card processing. Banking industry executives say that credit card processors typically pay MasterCard and Visa a [...]
eBay Stays Competative at all Levels
 Website Services Magazine In what could be a serious blow to every retailer and online advertising network on the Web (heads-up Google and Yahoo), eBay has announced they will begin selling contextual advertising to eBay sellers, to be placed on affiliate websites. For a cut of the profits, eBay will provide direct links to a seller’s items on various [...]
 My Hobby Q: I made extra money selling things on eBay last year. These were items I picked up at yardsales mostly. My husband says I am responsible for paying income tax on the money I made, but I disagree. This is just my hobby, not a business. What do you think? – Gladys A. [...]
Search Engine Roundtable The rumored Gbuy (click to see historical tracking of coverage) has been launched under “Google Checkout” at http://checkout.google.com. It basically has the same exact interface from the sellers or buyer accounts perspective as when I first tested it in As Chris Sherman wrote; Checkout isn’t a person-to-person, stored-value system like PayPal. But [...]
Entrepreneur vs. Small Business Owner
Karri Flatla writing on Small Business Trends: When business people converse, the terms “small business owner� and “entrepreneur� are used interchangeably as if they mean the same thing. Yet I discern two very different connotations. Is this a matter of semantics? Or is there an important distinction to be made? According to government statistics, “small [...]
Family Businesses Outperform Non-Family Firms
Inc.: Family businesses are more profitable and create more jobs than non-family firms, according to a new study. The study, which compared S&P 500 and Fortune 500 companies based on net profit margin, employment, revenue, and gross income growth between 1992 and 2002, concluded that those started by families are more successful than their non-family [...]
Should I Start a Summer Business?
NFIB: Instead of going to work for someone else next summer, learn how to strike out on your own. If any of the following criteria applies to you, you might want to consider putting the books away for the summer and becoming a business owner: Your school credits are caught up. You’re unsure if you [...]
Google Checkout An Extension of Technology
 Search Engine Watch Google has launched Google Checkout, a payment system for online retailers that’s tightly integrated with Google AdWords. Checkout isn’t the rumored PayPal killer, but it does offer some compelling features for both merchants and online shoppers alike. Rumors have been flying for more than a year about a payment system under development [...]
Read/write Web eBay, in collaboration with JotSpot, has just released a new community wiki – making it almost certainly the world’s largest wiki platform for a commercial website (Wikipedia is bigger, but it’s non-commercial). eBay Wiki is described as “a collection of fact-based articles written and maintained by eBay Community members” and is powered by [...]
This week’s Brain Brew Radio episode is online: This week, on Opportunity Knocks, Doug and Dave discuss the great potential and advantages of the CD and DVD market… TNT from Digital Dynamite in Cincinnati, Ohio, seeks help from Doug and Dave on how he can take his business to the next level… Marge from Greenbush [...]
Jennifer Tribe: Quite simply, an information product is any chunk of knowledge that has been recorded in some fashion – whether that be in a print format, an audio format, or a video format – so that it can now be passed on to others. There are dozens of ways to package and sell information. [...]
