Archive for September 10th, 2006
Federal Government Business Opportunities
Joseph Kowal: Forget that … you don’t need to pay anything to get all the information you need to compete for a government contract — you just need to know where to look. Joseph is right, www.fedbizopps.gov is your source for government business opportunities. From the government’s site: FedBizOpps.gov is the single government point-of-entry (GPE) [...]
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Entrepreneur Looks To Offer Divorce Insurance
TechJournal South: If John Logan has his way, sometime in the very near future, people across the globe will be able to purchase insurance coverage against the potential financial devastation often caused by divorce. The coverage will be geared toward rewarding people who have a long and successful marriage, not for people contemplating divorce in [...]
BusinessWeek Online: Most Sundays, Bob Peltier buys six ad pages in the two Twin Cities newspapers. But Labor Day weekend was a turning point for the president of Edina Realty, Minnesota’s top real estate firm. Instead of pages of open-house listings, Edina ran one page in each paper: The ad had a picture of a [...]
Americans More Likely To Turn To Web For Legal Info
KSBI-TV: Forget online dating, blogging or even emails — it’s divorce court and fender benders that are bringing Americans online today. That’s because almost three times as many U.S. adults today turn to the Internet to get advice and information about legal matters than they did six years ago (27 percent in 2006 versus 10 [...]
EBay Sellers Go Back to School
BusinessWeek Online: Several recent academic studies have centered on the behavior of eBay buyers. See how the information gathered can help you sell for more. Professors of marketing, economics, management, and psychology have published dozens of papers to try to explain how and why eBay users buy and sell online. We’ve combed through the data [...]
The Beatles’ Money Making Secret
Brad Isaac at Achieve-IT: Here’s my my favorite money making quote of all time: “Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’â€? — Paul McCartney. I love it. It is the type of message [...]
