Archive for September 3rd, 2006
Home School Group Has Answer for eBay’s Textbook Ban
AgapePress: The Home School Legal Defense Association is expressing concern that eBay has banned the sale of teacher’s guides through its online auctions, a move that could drive up the cost of instructional materials for home-schooling families. The new eBay policy prohibits “the sale of teacher’s editions of textbooks and solutions manuals that are intended [...]
Florida Stepping In To Save “Swamp” Buyers On eBay
All Headline News: The state of Florida is stepping in to help buyers who were duped into buying worthless swampland in Florida on the online auction site, eBay. Florida officials say “paper subdivisions” in places like Osceola, Polk, Volusia and Brevard counties contain land which is unsuitable for any construction, yet with names like University [...]
Niche Biz: A Friendlier Needle?
Yahoo News: Researchers at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center believe they have found a way to make patients less fearful of needles — decorate them with butterflies, flowers and smiley faces. Fear of needles, or needle phobia, can impact the care a patient receives, the researchers said. Such decorations likely interfere with [...]
Five Tips For Producing the Perfect Podcast
MarketingSherpa: Here are five podcast content and production tips: 1. Keep it short. The ideal length of a podcast is 10 minutes to 20 minutes. If you go more than 25 minutes, you’re outside the average commute or past the average treadmill workout. 2. Don’t drone from a script. Use body language to keep your [...]
Tamara Monosoff: For most of us, inventing a new product or starting a new business is foreign territory. And unless you have a crystal ball (and you know how to use it) it’s impossible to expect to make all the right decisions, all the time. Yet certain mistakes in the invention process are very common–I [...]
