Archive for August 22nd, 2006
Business Model, Schmizness Model
EarlyStageVC: The term “business model� has bothered me for a long time. I have always found it to be a glib method of characterizing a company’s relationship with its various constituencies, e.g., customers, suppliers, competitors, etc. The problem isn’t really the concept. The problem is that it’s a complex, multidimensional structure that doesn’t really lend [...]
GlobeandMail.com: Successful entrepreneurs are supposed to be outgoing, risk-taking workaholics. But Rhonda Abrams says there are actually nine different types of entrepreneurs, each with their own style and interests, allowing more of us the chance to enjoy the joy of entrepreneuring: 1. Adviser: Some entrepreneurs are paid for giving advice, such as lawyers, accountants, and [...]
Using Online Service Marketplaces
PowerHomeBiz Small & Home Business: If you are a service provider — whether a writer, software developer or web designer — one of the ways you can get clientele for your business is to use online service marketplaces. Examples of these are guru.com, elance.com, rentacoder.com and other similar services. To improve your chances of winning [...]
Asking eBay For a Little Respect
Having posted all week about eBay and getting a tirade of in depth responses from sellers who feel mistreated, deceived, disrespected and financially punished, I feel that this issue will not go away. Not because of my continuous posts and not because sellers feel so passionate about the issues they raise.The real reason the fire [...]
Springwise: If you’re a budding restaurateur, here’s an idea that could make you just as famous. Ghetto Gourmet is a ‘wandering supper club for lovers of fine cookin’, conversation and art set in uniquely comfortable environments’. The pop-up restaurant started out as an experiment, in a basement apartment in Oakland, California, by two brothers, Joe [...]
eBay Feeling the Fee Protests Worldwide
eBay sellers in the UK got major media attention when they went on strike on August 15, and Australian sellers have been readying for their planned strike on Monday, August 21. According to one seller, the count was at 152 Stores as of Thursday (http://forums.ebay.com.au/thread.jspa?threadID=500024740). He reports that sellers will close their eBay Shops and [...]
Parking-Lot Dentistry Finding Its Niche
New York Times: Samantha Taube stepped out of the MGM Grand into the bright sun to walk to the parking lot. After a short distance, she approached a trailer, entered, sat in a dentist’s chair and had her teeth cleaned. Down on the Strip, Beverly Egan, a poker dealer at the Stardust Resort and Casino, [...]
$5 Million A Year, Selling ‘Ice Towels’
Unusual Businesses Ideas That Work: There’s nothing like a hot product or, in this case, a cold product with hot sales. Just ask Mike Fanning and Bill Sammon, founders of the Hima Ice Towel Corp., which sells prepackaged cotton towels soaked with refreshing mixtures of essential plant oils that promote evaporation and cooling. Sammon got [...]
PayPal Tries To Help War On Terror
Though PayPal is the de facto on-line payment system of choice (or perhaps of force), it doesn’t necessarily make them nice. There have been those horror stories of individuals being banned from PayPal just because someone they bought or sold from was less than honest. Now, add one more line to that laundry list of [...]
Does My eBay About Page Really Help
Every eBay buyer or seller knows what it is, but they very rarely make the most of this powerful profit generating free resource. There are some things that must be included in your page if you’re really going to profit from it. This article outlines the features that must be included and how to make [...]
eBays Rate Increase In Effect Today
Today, August 22nd is the day of the new eBay store listing increases. I am betting, that last night, you saw a heavy increase in listing traffic to get one month of listings at the old rate. eBay store owners staying up late to get all the new listings in place prior to the new [...]
eBay Auto Auctions VS Local Auto Auctions
We will take a look at the two types of auctions available today; local auctions and online auctions. We’ll discuss how they are setup and run and how best to use them to buy or sell a used car to save you time and money.Local vehicle auctionsYou must first register if you’d like to buy [...]
Seeking out Mis-Spelled Auctions on eBay
With more than 167 million registered users eBay is the largest market-place in the world. Tens of thousands of items are listed every day and the vast majority of these don’t contain any spelling mistakes. But a significant proportion do, either in the item title or the description.Now I’m sure you’re thinking ‘so what, why [...]
The Auction Market Being Evaluated In Many States
With eBay and Ticketmaster in the auction market, it’s a good time to evaluate many states’ regulation on this practice to determine what need, if any, there is for licensing and regulation in this market.Internet and technology have been a catalyst for many of the changes in auctioning behavior, and many states are stepping up [...]
