Archive for August 11th, 2006
Paul Bezaire, a.k.a. “The Rebel,” has announced that his latest book, “How I Sued PayPal and Won,” is now available. The book uses real-life examples from his involvement in the Los Angeles Superior Courts to illustrate how he and others were able to win their lawsuit against this corporate giant.”I know PayPal has millions of [...]
Skypes Grows Bigger Than MySpace
kype’s flown past MySpace. But both cases are even more confirmation that “free” rules cyber space.Skype, which all but gives away long distance across the globe, reports it has 113 million users worldwide, while MySpace, a social networking site, celebrated its 100 millionth registered user on Aug. 8 (during the News Corp. (nyse: NWS – [...]
EBay Has New Form Plus Prize Giveaways!
New “Sell Your Item” Form LaunchedDavid Wygant, eBay senior product manager, recently announced that the Sell Your Item Form (SYI) is available after a full year of testing. This single-page form allows sellers to enter all item details, review and then submit listings without the hassle of loading multiple pages. The SYI form also offers [...]
Columbus Dispatch: Matt Peters collects bat droppings, or guano, from the attics and bell towers of area churches and sells it as fertilizer. He manages to get $2 a pound for something people hate to scrape off their shoes. “People find it makes nice gifts,” said Sue Zano, who owns a store in Athens where [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine: Complex surgery is the latest service to move offshore – and clever businesses are helping cost-conscious patients go under the knife overseas. This year alone, upwards of 500,000 Americans are expected to travel overseas to get their bodies fixed, at prices 30 to 80 percent less than at home. Medical tourism, as [...]
Social-Networking Site Gives Retailer a Start
Startup Journal: Like many college students, Stephanie Madesh enjoys socializing online with friends through networking site MySpace.com. So when she began planning to create a Web-based apparel company this past spring, she thought MySpace would be an ideal place to court her target demographic, young women like herself. Ms. Madesh created a profile for her [...]
eBay Sellers Beg Google to Get Into Auction Business
eBay Sellers are pulling out all the stops to get Google into the online auction business. Here are some quotes from the Google Group, “Google We Need An Auction Site“: EBAY IS ONE OF THE WORST COMPANIES IN THE U.S. I have sold over 400,000 items on eBay. I have been flown to San Jose [...]
Springwise.com: Dutch bank Postbank recently started a campaign aimed at budding entrepreneurs. Children who open an Easy Blue bank account receive a briefcase containing materials for printing their own t-shirts, stickers, letterhead, flyers, and business cards. To get started, the young business person logs on to the bank’s web site and decides what type of [...]
Sun, sand, and surfing…….the Net
HeraldToday.com: Reclined underneath a bright blue shade umbrella, Scott Proffitt enjoys a Sunday afternoon at the beach with his family. His small children build a sandcastle nearby, while his sunbathing wife applies sunscreen to her face. She sips ice cold water and then passes the bottle to her husband, who carefully drinks to avoid a [...]
A small group of eBay sellers launched a discussion group on Google Groups to “beg” Google to consider opening an auction site. The move comes after eBay announced a significant fee hike for Store inventory listings in an effort to “rebalance” the marketplace toward the core platform (non-Store listings).The Google Group, called “Google We Need [...]
EBay Contest to Promote New Blogs
eBay is holding a contest to promote its new eBay Blogs and its “Reviews & Guides” feature. Users who create or post to an eBay blog or who write a new Review or Guide will be automatically entered in the eBay $100,000 Giveaway promotion. Judges will pick 100 writers based on their originality, thoroughness, visuals, [...]
Sandhills Powersports is in high gear with revenue increasing 100 percent to about $300,000 in the past two months now that its new IBM/eOneGroup site is in full throttle.The Nebraska-based online motorcycle parts and accessories business began in 2003 as a part-time, three-person company, selling on eBay. As it became more successful, Ben Anthony, the [...]
Dropshipping to Make it On EBay
If you hope to own an eBay business, and make a full time living at it, you can easily make that dream come true even if you don�t have a product of your own to sell. eBay provides many people who want to quit their corporate nine-to-five jobs with a way to make a good [...]
Skype and VoIP Like 2 Peas in a Pod
When people think of VoIP, they think of Skype. That’s the interesting conclusion of Phil Wolff’s blog on Skype Journal. That’s bad news for Vonage…and very good news for Skype.Wolff reaches his conclusion by doing an analysis of blogpulse’s chart of Skype’s blogshare. It shows, in his words, “how closely the line of the term [...]
Turkish Skype Users Beware Of Scammers
In the continuing tradition of scammers going after the most popular software and services to try and rip people off, a relatively new scam has been targeting Turkey Skype users. In particular, it is a piece of malware disguising itself as an installer for Skype. Once executed, it turns the machine into a password-harvesting device, [...]
