Archive for September 5th, 2006
Yes eBay is Great For Marketing Real Estate
eBay provides functionality that is clearly adaptable to the needs of most realtors. It provides a widespread medium of advertisement for the real estate. It is also a relatively inexpensive method of advertising. One of the best things about selling real estate on eBay is that it “markets” to many areas around the world, not [...]
AuctionBytes Polls eBays Sellers
AuctionBytes is surveying online sellers to take a snapshot of the state of the online-auction industry. The results will be published in a future issue of AuctionBytes-Update. The survey will determine where online-auction sellers are currently listing products for sale, whether they have their own ecommerce website or Storefronts, and how significant their own sites [...]
Skype & VoIP Open Doors For Spammers
NO SOONER have vendors turned their attention to providing mobile phone users with access to low cost VoIP networks, than analyst firm, Ferris Research, is warning that it will open up handsets to all the dangers of the Internet. As VoIP means that an Internet MAC address effectively becomes a telephone number, it will be [...]
The Lure of eBay Still Fills Classes
The skills that Martin Reynolds teaches can make some folks very rich. Others may use the knowledge to supplement their income or just make a few bucks for walking-around-money. Reynolds is a member of the Sarasota Personal Computer Users Group and teaches the ins and outs of selling products on eBay — the hugely successful [...]
Have you ever bought something on eBay or another auction site, then turned around and resold it on eBay? There is probably not enough of this sort of action out there to make a living, but it can be fun. I have made tidy profits on items purchased from online auctions on several occasions. I’ve [...]
PayPal New Updated Policies Taking Effect
eBay’s online payment service PayPal updated some of its policies taking effect this month. PayPal will no longer be offering its Money Back Guarantee program as of September 14, 2006. Under the program, purchasers of the guarantee were allowed to resell merchandise to PayPal if they were unhappy with the item. The guarantee applied to [...]
Product Niche: Miniature Plants
Mindpetals: Twenty year-old Andrew Cargill decided to bring the latest Japanese craze to his home country. PetPlant is the latest craze to hit the UK. Fresh from the Orient, these miniture bonsai marvels are absolutely “alive and beautiful.” The concept of Pocket Plant is to be able to have a mini pet plant that you [...]
Web Site Helps Teen Entrepreneurs
Chicagotribune.com: The U.S. Small Business Administration has announced the launch of new online resources for young entrepreneurs at the Mind Your Own Business teen Web site. The site walks users through five easy steps of business ownership – whether they’ve just had a brainstorm for their first business venture or they’ve been at it a [...]
Entrepreneur Hopes To Turn Mud Into Gold
Associated Press: Lauren Padawer’s inspiration for a beauty product made of glacial mud struck during a grungy rafting trip down the Copper River. After days of paddling in south central Alaska, Padawer and her companions needed to get clean. Washing herself in the river’s glacial pools, Padawer looked down at the mud swirling around her [...]
Back-To-School Time For New Business Strategies
Rhonda Abrams: All over the country, kids and college students are going back to classes. It’s time for us, as businesspeople, to start learning again, too. Once we’re through with school, we may also think we’re through with the chance to learn new things. But in all of life, and especially in business, continual learning [...]
Guy Kawasaki: Andy Sernovitz, the CEO of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, is coming out with a new book called, Word of Mouth Marketing. Here are some ideas, stories, and recommendations from the book that I liked the most: 1. Companies could hire a customer service rep to cruise the Internet looking for kudos [...]
