Archive for August 10th, 2006
Everyday Edisons, a PBS show, is now entering its second season of taping and is looking for inventors. According to the show’s producers, “you will have the opportunity to appear on Everyday Edisons as your invention takes shape, is refined, produced, marketed and sold.â€? Their scope is broad: You don’t have to have a prototype [...]
Boston Globe: For the back-to-school season, Staples is tapping a new market: teens. Well, duh. But for years, the segment wasn’t an obvious one for the office supplier. Instead Staples catered to grade school children and their parents believing that this age group spent more on school supplies. But research the chain conducted found that [...]
EBay Offers New Free Listing Tool List’d
Listd, a new eBay auction listing tool is now available. I had a sneak peak at this product prior to launch and I am very impressed at the ease of use and simple AJAX enabled format.It is clean, neat and simple to use, in fact people are reporting that they are listing items in less [...]
Ottawa Business Journal: Michael Turner’s business suits his clients. He visits them at home or work to determine their wardrobe needs and measure them for the custom-tailored suits he designs for each individual. But, explains the proprietor of Uncommon Thread, “I’m not into selling one suit to a guy. I’m looking to build up a [...]
The Fight Against False eBay Feedback
When does a $2.33 transaction turn into a superior court case?When it happens on eBay.A dispute over a piece of smoky quartz normally would have been of little consequence to Kiel Sturm, who was selling the stone on eBay. But when a Los Angeles buyer made defamatory remarks that threatened to forever mar Sturm’s online [...]
Hello.I, like many others from ebay, are not happy with the changes that ebay is making this month, mostly the fee hikes, and discouraging store owners from listing their items as a store…(huh?) that’s right, they want you to pay for and setup a store, but use their auction formatLet me summerize it for you [...]
Inside the cbc: Frustrated at the lousy quality of pitches that companies and PR people were making, CBC Radio producer Tod Maffin wrote “Landing the Perfect Pitch” , a short (15 pages) book. It’s meant for anyone who is trying to get media attention for their company, charity, web site, event, or whatever. It details [...]
Savvy Iowan Takes Corn Sales To Ebay
USA Today: The tasty crunch of sweet corn is just a couple of clicks away for folks outside of the Midwest thanks to some Iowa entrepreneurs. The golden, buttery bounty seems be everywhere in Iowa — in grocery stores and on street corners being sold out of the backs of pickups. But since the craving [...]
30 Second/One Question Interview with Ty Tribble
My next participant in the 30 Second/One Question Interview series is Ty Tribble. I asked: One man’s trash, is another man’s treasure. What product or service have you imagined would be a good business opportunity, but you’ve rejected because it’s too off the wall? Ty’s response: About 10 years ago, I was having lunch with [...]
