Archive for July 13th, 2006
How to Craft a Winning Elevator Speech
American Venture Magazine: An elevator speech is a short description of what you do that is told to someone else in the time it takes an elevator to go from the bottom floor to the top. It’s the traditional way that business associates introduce themselves to one another and answers the question “What do you [...]
Vacation May Lead to a New Business Opportunity
Joan Isabella writing for Startup Nation: I almost didn’t come back from my vacation in North Carolina. Not only was the weather perfect, the ocean water warm and the rental house amazing, I saw business opportunities on every corner. I was so enthralled with the idea that I might start a business on the beach [...]
Using Your Logo in Memorable Ways
Entrepreneur: Given the age in which we live, the importance of logos has probably never been as high. We don’t read; we scan. We don’t research; we surf. We want information quickly, at a moment’s notice, and we don’t want to sort through meaningless data to find what we want. A logo can actually be [...]
Lessons You Can Learn from Big Business
BizHelp24: For several years McDonalds has suffered from slowly shrinking sales, much of which has been caused by bad publicity about the contents of their food and its potential effects on people’s health. (Not that you need to be a genius to work out that eating 20 hamburgers a week from any restaurant is going [...]
FT: Dell, the world’s biggest personal computer maker, on Thursday moved to simplify its pricing structure by cutting rebates and other promotional offers to personal and small business customers. The move marks the latest in a series of attempts to adjust the price structure at the computer maker after pricing mistakes contributed to missed forecasts [...]
Startup Journal: Running an environmentally friendly business can be a good way to distinguish yourself from competition in your area and create a niche, and that’s especially true with today’s growing concern about global warming. But be careful of assuming that just because you’re “green,” consumers will naturally be willing to throw more greenbacks your [...]
Q&A: Bill Thomas, Founder and CEO, Bills Khakis
Inc.: Bill Thomas bought his first pair of khaki pants at an army surplus store near Denison University, in Ohio, in 1984. When that pair–deep-pocketed World War II uniform pants–wore out and he couldn’t find another like it, he sensed a business opportunity. He also came to believe, after a few years working in the [...]
Startup Journal: Although only a small percentage of smaller companies hold patents currently in use by their businesses, more than 40% say they have introduced at least one new — or significantly improved — product, service, process, or design in the past year. Most often the innovations were in the form of a product (55%), [...]
The question I posed to myself was somewhat a legacy view towards the “Sellerâ€? side of things since that has been my focus for the past year. It was really “How are we helping Sellers connect with buyers and actually attract shoppers to their products?â€?. With our Auction Management solutions, it’s easy to talk about [...]
Tips for selling on eBay Express
I’ve been hearing from lots of eBay (EBAY – news – Cramer’s Take) sellers: What’s this eBay Express site all about? Will it really bring me more business? Why aren’t my items listed on the site? How do I know if someone buys my items? That’s a lot of questions, but eBay sellers like to [...]
A friend came to me yesterday trying to buy a digital camera, absolutely bewildered by eBay’s search tools. It seemed as though every time she typed “digital camera” into the eBay search box, she got everything but digital cameras.After trudging through pages and pages of results, she was about to give up on eBay altogether. [...]
Every now and then I hear from someone I know who has paid what they consider to be a fair price for an eBay item—only to receive a poor-quality copy of the item they thought they were purchasing. The common thread that runs through many of these complaints is the unusually low price at which [...]
13 RED FLAGS To Warn a Bidder of a Fraudulent Transaction Most people who are defrauded are victims of their own greed. When a transaction appears to be too good to be true, it likely is. Application of common sense can preserve your money. eBay View About Me for red-flags Blogged with Flock
NoChex brings up eBay Monopoly issue
Days after eBay banned Google Checkout in the U.S. under its Accepted Payments Policy, eBay banned UK payment service provider Nochex – along with Google Checkout and other payment services – in the UK.Martin Greenbank, CEO of Nochex, characterized eBay’s policy as anti-competitive, and said, “I really wonder what the EU Competition Commission will make [...]
Mpire Teams with eBay for Bonds Site
We teamed up with eBay to create a site for the world to watch how much Barry Bonds 715 Home run ball will get on eBay (the one that edged him past Babe Ruth on the all time home run list). If you haven’t heard the story on Andrew, you should check out the site [...]
Looking for “it”? That something different that will increase your eBay auction sale rates and selling prices? One of the most effective ways to generate more sales at high price-points is to create a more attractive, attention-getting auction listing. The easiest way to do this is through the use of templates that you can quickly [...]
eBay Wiki – World's Commercial Wiki?
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 JotSpot’s innovative [...]
David Lorenzo shares some tips setting up the perfect home office. As someone who’s recently built a home office, the first few are VERY important: Start from scratch. Clear out your entire office and paint it a fresh color that inspires you or makes you feel focused. Stay away from reds and blues; choose energizing [...]
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Entrepreneurship for Home Schoolers
Chuck Huckaby: Rhea Perry is a homeschool mom and mompreneur herself. As her children grew she began to wonder how they could teach her own children entrepreneurship. She found that other mompreneurs were vitally interested in improving their own finances and helping their children succeed in business. In response, she has created “Entrepreneur Days� offering [...]
