Archive for September 1st, 2006
Fire-The-Coach Web Sites A Big Business
Associated Press: Here’s a bargain for a frustrated Duke football fan. For $50, you can own the Web site where the name says it all — FireTedRoof.com. That’s a steal, because similar sites calling for the dismissals of Bill Callahan at Nebraska or Sylvester Croom at Mississippi State are five times as expensive. But for [...]
Dog-Friendly Office Can Have Positive Impact
Citizen-Times.com: It’s the dog days of August, so it’s time to remind readers of the benefits and pleasures of creating a dog-friendly workplace. Dog-friendly offices are good for dogs, but more importantly, they’re good for business. It certainly helps attract and retain great employees. What can you do to make your business a dog-friendly workplace? [...]
Tips on Creating a Podcast That Works as a Marketing Tool
MarketingSherpa: Many of the most successful podcasts resemble a cross between a regularly published email newsletter with several interesting articles, a personal blog with a strong individual tone and a radio talk show with must-meet guest stars. So the best qualities are: * Strong voice – not just the sound but the style * Steadiness [...]
StartupJournal: 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 entrepreneurial counselors, and Visa [...]
Jim Blasingame: When working with entrepreneurs, one of the most difficult things consultants, advisors, and mentors have to do is tell their hopeful visionaries when an idea doesn’t have a reasonable chance of success, or simply is not viable. Such advice isn’t meant to de-motivate, or to squash the dream, but rather to ground what [...]
USRobotics introduces USR9630 cordless phone for Skype and domestic callingUsr9630 Still not sure about the merits of Skype versus your traditional landline? How about a device that mixes both, like this USRobotics’ USR9630 cordless phone and base station.The USR9630 connects to both a traditional phone line and an available USB port on a PC running [...]
Bitter eBayers Frustrated with eBay
DESPITE RECORD BREAKING profits in the first quarter of this year(pdf), Ebay is again pushing up costs for its sellers – specifically aiming rises at power-users who are committed to selling on the internet’s leading auction site.Ebay recently hiked up charges for the half a million online stores that operate on the site, which provoked [...]
eBay India, the online marketplace that offers person-to-person trading, is targetting sellers in the rural markets. The company is also expecting 50 per cent of eBay buyers to come from small towns in the next 5 years. �We are training people in the rural areas to sell products on eBay. Handicrafts and products that are [...]
eBay Still Taking Hits From Fee Increase
Shares of most Internet companies traded on the downside Thursday, including auctioneer eBay Inc., which shed more than 2% following an analyst’s review of the fallout from new fees the company recently began collecting to list some sale items. Shares of eBay fall on fee increase report – MarketWatch
Contrary to what you may believe, Skype is primarily used for business, not home use. So concludes a Cornell University study of Skype use.The study found that Skype use peaks during working hours, and tails off during the evening.It found that usage during the night dropped by 40% to 50% compared to use during the [...]
