Archive for September 26th, 2006
This week’s Carnival of Investing is up at Free Money Finance.
eBay Stocks Low But Keeping Upbeat Forcast
With eBay’s stock price down over 50 percent in the last 20 months, with fees and seller defections rising and sell-through rates and prices realized down, with a perceived company arrogance and indifference to user problems, an increasingly heard call from eBay sellers is, “Bring us the head of Meg Whitman” and the rest of [...]
Associated Press: A hallmark of “Mission: Impossible” was the message that would self-destruct after a spy played it. Now a startup communications company promises that same level of secrecy with a Web-based messaging system designed to leave no traces. Let’s say Alice wants to discuss something privately with Bob. Alice calls up a VaporStream Web [...]
BizInformer: This is from a great book by Maria Veloso. These steps are designed to make the task of writing web sales copy easy and each step takes the form of a question you need to answer. 1. What is the readers problem? Most products and services are designed to solve a problem, what is [...]
Niche Biz: Selling Office Noise
Two Minute Commute: A lot of times, our client’s perception of a business run from home is inferior compared to a business run in a usual office. An office setting provides them the credibility they are looking for in a business. One dead giveaway that people know its a home office is through the background [...]
Internet Advertising Revenue Keeps Rising
CNET News.com: Internet advertising revenue in the U.S. totaled $7.9 billion in the first half of the year, a new record and a 37 percent increase over the same period last year, according to figures released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Internet ad revenue was nearly $4.1 billion for the second quarter, up [...]
Skype Banned On College Campuses
MarketWatch: A growing number of college campuses are in the throes of banning the use of Skype, the Internet phone feature owned by eBay Inc., saying the technology is capable of corrupting and crowding Internet networks. It’s unclear how many people on the schools networks are using Skype, which is based on freely-available software known [...]
