Archive for August 31st, 2006
Use Your Knowledge to Grow an eBay Business
When people find out that I own several home-based businesses, they always ask what I do. When I mention eBay, I can see their eyes light up, because everyone wants to know how to start making money with eBay auctions!I then mention a few of the things I sell on eBay, and since it has [...]
Seek Outside Ways to Increase eBay Traffic
When you see the Powerseller logo beside the userid of an Ebay seller, what goes through your mind? Do you, like most people, naturally assume that this person has got the Ebay game all figured out (and make no mistake — it IS a game!), or do you, like me, blink dispassionately at this trivial [...]
Learn How to Find a Reliable Wholesale List for eBay
It is of sum importance to know the difference between a reliable wholesale list and the 1,2,3 by the hundreds wholesale list online contacts. Because of the market and wholesale business source confidentiality, many businesses have jump on to the wholesale niche selling outdated wholesale sources that are found by the dozens in many Internet [...]
Get Trained Straight From eBay University
That is right you read this title correctly, eBay has a training center called eBay University. Now they don’t give out any traditional diplomas at this institution of higher learning because you won’t need them. What you do get is real world practical advice, tips and tricks to making the most of your eBay or [...]
New Skype Phone Released by TrendNet
Click to ZoomThe bigger names in the home networking game may be D-Link and Linksys, but TrendNet wants to be a major player as well. Looking beyond routers and network cards, TrendNet recently released its ClearSky Skype handset and based on early reviews, it works very well, even if it isn’t the prettiest phone on [...]
Google Checkout Has A Few Glitches Compared to PayPal
Since late June, Kirby Witmer has twice tried buying electronics for his customers using Google Inc.’s online-payment feature, Google Checkout.But all he got were a couple of Google (GOOG) T-shirts.The first arrived after Witmer, who runs an electronics business called KirbTech from his home in Carlisle, Pa., canceled his order for a flat-screen monitor from [...]
Babble Trys to Compete With Skype
The ever-growing Skype community has achieved world renown, but there’s a smaller cult operating in the VOIP underworld known as ‘Babblers’. They’re signed up to a Skype-like service called Babble, and this is their USB stick for instant free calls on your laptop.Like Skype’s Flash phone, the Babblestick plugs into your USB port and automatically [...]
Home Parties Making A Comeback
BusinessWeek: A Pickle Party is in full swing. Thirteen women are gathered in the family room of Denise Dailey, where they look over an assortment of brightly colored cloth handbags and purses. The women flip through binders of sample fabrics. By evening’s end, all of them have combined different shapes, fabrics, and liners to design [...]
Five Secrets To A Successful Launch
Business 2.0 Magazine: Trying to come up with the next big thing? Forget flashy tricks – start with a simple insight and shape it into something unique. When you look at some of the most successful innovations of recent years – products like Apple’s iPod and Motorola’s Razr – it’s apparent that the best innovators [...]
NFIB.com: Though health-care costs are on the rise, several consumer-directed health plans available today can help small-business owners and their employees take more control of their health-care dollars. Consumer-directed plans include health savings accounts, health reimbursement arrangements and flexible spending accounts, and are designed to save employees money by encouraging them to be more involved [...]
The Wall Street Journal Online: Where can entrepreneurs find office space, a research assistant, mentors and access to reams of market research — all free of charge? Try your local library. In an age where Google has become a verb and entrepreneurs have easy access to information from their home computers, libraries have been trying [...]
The Wall Street Journal Online: For sole proprietors, finding the time to build the firm is one of the biggest challenges. More than a third of owners (35%) of one-person firms say that the toughest part is their inability to focus on generating more business, according to a survey by Score, a nonprofit group of [...]
Thomas Antony has a interesting idea about how marketing and selling ethnocentric bracelets: Everyone knows the Livestrong Lance Armstrong bracelets right? I actually did some research in some producers of these bands and you can buy a bulk of these for pretty cheap. Now the idea is this. Create these bands to meet specific target [...]
