Archive for September 6th, 2006
PayPal is Your New ATM Through Cellphones
Finding a pocket for every gadget you own becomes especially difficult during the summer months, but now you can leave your wallet at home and pay for things using your cellphone instead. The first way is through PayPal Mobile. Once you open an account, load it with money or link it with a credit card, [...]
ebay Teams Up with Yahoo for Advertising
EBay announced it will begin displaying new graphical advertising banners from Yahoo! as part of a search and advertising deal the two companies signed onto in May. The new graphical campaign will be appearing on the right side of eBay’s Motors Home Page and the size of graphical advertisements on eBay.com search results pages will [...]
Police Department Getting Higher Return for Cars on eBay
It’s a lot easier to sell old police cars at local auctions, but it might be more profitable to sell them on eBay. Fenwick Island Police Department is selling a used 2001 Ford Crown Victoria on the popular Internet auction site — the second car the department has sold online. The department can make a [...]
eBay Sellers Getting the Message to the Masses
It seems a number of eBay sellers have improved their public-relations skills over the years, and reporters are listening. As fallout continues from the fee increase and accompanying decreased exposure of eBay Store listings, sellers around the globe are getting their point of view across in articles like the one in Tuesday’s Australian IT. That [...]
Candy Bar Promo Turned to Profit On eBay
he Hanso Foundation can’t be happy about the latest craze on eBay.Apollo Candy Bars are showing up on the Internet auction site, and being snapped up for anywhere between $10 and $60. The bars, seen on “Lost” being eaten by the plane crash survivors and being dropped in mysterious food shipments, are being given out [...]
Vote for Fat Skeleton in the MAMA Awards
And now for something completely different: My brother’s band, Fat Skeleton, is up for an award from the local Modesto Area Music Association. Please take a moment and vote for Fat Skeleton under “Best Indie / Alternative” and help me make their day. While you’re there voting, you can also pull the lever for another [...]
$25,000 Pet Product Invention Contest Starts Today
Pet Safe sent in the following press release: Have you ever wished you had a product for your pet that hasn’t been invented yet? Now you have the chance to help bring that product to market and win up to $25,000 – just for having a great idea for your dog or cat! Drs. Foster [...]
Five Strategies For An Effective Ebay Auction
The following is a guest post by Matthew Peschong. Visit his blog at www.CaffeineMarketing.com. When you get registered with Ebay and begin selling you will notice you are stuck in the rut of millions of other listings. But how can you improve your visibility without having to pay extra? It’s simple. 1. See what your [...]
I missed mentioning the Carnival of the Capitalists earlier this week because of the holiday. It’s up at The Business of America is Business.
Google Lets Users Search Online Archives
Forbes: A group of online publications has opened up its archives to Google’s web-crawlers, the company said Wednesday, allowing it to index old articles for a new service called Google News Archive Search. The service retrieves links to articles for historical keywords, and sorts them into timelines. Some of the search results link to “pay-per-view� [...]
ecommerce-guide.com: When it comes to shopping online, teenage users are a contradiction: Most teens don’t have their own credit card, yet they love to shop online. Which proves they have access to their parents’ card. Another paradox about teens online, or perhaps it’s best described as a myth: Teens are not the super tech-savvy users [...]
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Home Depot To Add Live Television To Web Site
MarketWatch: Home Depot, the largest U.S. home-improvement retailer, is set to launch in October homedepot.com TV, which will aggregate and expand on its Internet site all of the retailer’s online videos and eventually offer live television shows. Homedepot.com TV will not only provide how-to information intended to boost sales of the Atlanta retailer, but is [...]
Springwise: The hottest new eatery in New York won’t get rave reviews for fine service provided by its waiters. It doesn’t have any. Nor does Bamn! have tables, cashiers or any of the other basic amenities diners have come to expect. Instead, Bamn is a throwback to the first half of the 20th century — [...]
How To Ask Someone To Be Your Business Mentor
Matthew Stibbe at BadLanguage.com: DOs 1. Remember that you are asking a favor. 2. Have a business plan. 3. Have a plausible business. 4. Show me a reason to do it. 5. Make contact by introduction or recommendation, if possible. DON’Ts 1. Don’t be late for meetings. 2. Don’t expect your mentor to run your [...]
