Archive for July 10th, 2006
This week’s Carnival of Marketing is up at Kicking Over My Traces. The first Carnival of Wal-Mart is up at The Business of America is Business. Today’s Carnival of Business is up at It’s Just Money. This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up at The Real Returns.
 Reg Hardware Fancy turning your copy of Skype into a watch-anywhere TV viewer? Now you can, courtesy of Japanese company Novac, which today announced a box that turns any suitably-specified PC into a machine for beaming TV shows to anyone on the internet. The key is in the software. The box itself is an analogue [...]
Importance Of Marketing Your eBay Store
 AuctionBytes It’s all too easy to forget about your eBay Store when you’re scrambling to get your personal quota of auction sales online at the beginning of the week. But at the end of the week when you’ve sold more out of your store than you did online, you suddenly realize the store’s value. eBay [...]
ReliaBid Promises to Rid eBayers of Deadbeats
 AuctionBytes Among eBay sellers’ top challenges is the problem of deadbeat bidders, also known as non-paying bidders. A service from ReliaBid promises to tackle this challenge by bringing sellers together with a collection agency. ReliaBid warns potential bidders of this consequence through a seal that appears in participating seller listings. Seal programs on eBay have [...]
U.S Postal Service Competing For ebay Business
 AuctionBytes Have you avoided using online postage services because of their monthly fees? Expanded offerings from the U.S. Postal Service make it a viable way to print postage from your own computer. The Post Office has come a long way in the past century. There was a time your letter going to the opposite coast [...]
eBay Says No to Buy It Now T.V.
 Advertising Age Just as ABC TV was talking up to media buyers “Buy It Now,” a feel-good reality show revolving around families trying to fulfill their dreams by placing their prized possessions on eBay, the auction site pulled out of the deal. The program’s premise was based on a popular genre that has proved a [...]
Rest in Peace: Death Becomes Creative For Funeral Entrepreneurs
Sam Boykin at Entrepreneur Magazine writes: Despite our many efforts to stave off the Grim Reaper, one day he’ll pay us a visit. While this is a rather somber reminder of our mortality, it also represents a great business opportunity. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the funeral industry generates over $11 billion a year [...]
Why Starting Your E-Business With Too Much Money Can Be A Bad Thing
Buzzle: You become wasteful of your time and money. You are more likely to get sucked in by “turn key” scams You will waste money on advertising packages You will prepay for services You will throw money away on goods and services you don’t need
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Fat Pitch Financials.
Sara Wilson at Entrepreneur Magazine: Americans adore all things fresh: fresh beginnings, fresh outlooks and now, more than ever, fresh foods. According to a survey conducted by Datamonitor, the natural food and drinks market is expected to surpass $27.5 billion by 2007, and the number of natural-food consumers in the U.S. is expected to grow [...]
Five Rules for Great Websites: How Make Your New Site Stand Out
Forty Media Blog: In a world in which it’s unusual for a business not to have a website, an ambitious business owner must expect to do more than just throwing something online. Following these simple rules will help your website stand out in the crowd.
For Kid Entrepreneurs: Camp Invention
Chuck Huckaby: If you’d like your kids to have a head start as an inventor or entrepreneur, or just in life, here’s a summer activity that may just be the thing you’re looking for: a camp that uses an invention motif to help younger children improve their overall literacy and “numeracy� (the new buzz word [...]
Consumers Are Ganging up on Their Retailers
Economist: On an otherwise quiet Friday afternoon in Guangzhou, a city in southern China, 500 shoppers gather outside a Gome electrical superstore in the downtown district. They arrive en masse at the designated time—June 16th at 4pm—that they had previously agreed online. Several hours later, they emerge clutching boxes, having secured 10-30% discounts on cameras, [...]
