Archive for October 4th, 2006
Skype Limited on Tuesday released a security update to repair a flaw in its voice over internet software that could let an attacker take control of Mac computers. The vulnerability, which affects Apple Computer Inc.’s Mac OS X operating system software, requires a Skype user to click on an internet link designed to take advantage [...]
eBay Could Be Your Next Resume
His name is Robb Phen and for ten thousand dollars he could be yours for two months. Robb is for sale on eBay. He and his wife Kara decided to try this unusual marketing tactic because he has been searching for a job for about two months using traditional methods without results. Rob says he’s [...]
eBay Stock Up Is The Shift From Stores Working?
Why? Why have eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) shares gained 6.10% today? That is, of course, the question. We’ve discussed the rumors already, anything from eBay selling its China operations to creating a strategic alliance with a local player, to Microsoft buying eBay. Most of these rumors aren’t even that new and have surfaced from time [...]
Low Cost Marketing Ideas from the Pizza Business
Our Work at Home Blog: According to Start Up Journal here’s what CiCi’s Franchisee Randi Papporello of Des Moines, IA does to keep people marching through her doors. Newspaper inserts (coupons & specials – $2,300) Ads on Hispanic radio stations ($300 per month = 50 spots per week and a live remote. Main stream radio [...]
What is PayPal and It’s History
PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the internet. It serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders. PayPal performs payment processing for online vendors, auction sites, and other corporate users, for which it charges a fee. In October 2002, PayPal [...]
Escaping Identity Theft On eBay
eBay does their best to make communication with other buyers and sellers as painless as possible. Sadly, there are plenty of scam artists that are just waiting to use these features to their advantage. One such feature is the ability of an eBay customer or seller to ask you a question through eBay’s “My Messages” [...]
eBays Management Announcing Departure
Despite the news of Greg Isaacs’ departure having been mentioned in several sites, this key eBay director’s recent departure hasn’t made the wire reports news. Isaacs announced his departure yesterday. Who is Greg Isaacs, some of you might wonder? He’s not on the big eBay’s management list, after all. True. Greg Isaacs is, or rather [...]
Reuters: A regular tutor can cost anywhere between $25 to $100 an hour. But online tutors in countries such as India are charging as little as US$2.50 an hour, (AUD$3.34) meaning cash-strapped Australian families can also afford to privately educate their children. This is how much American mother Denise Robison pays per hour for her [...]
British Museum Watching Over eBay Antiques Sales
British Museum experts will monitor eBay antiquities sales and report illegal activity to the Met’s Art and Antiques Unit in an arrangement announced today. The initiative will try and tackle the problem of potentially academically valuable artefacts being traded. Amateur treasure hunters finding precious metal objects and groups of coins over 300 years old, or [...]
Historic Masonic Building Being Auctioned on eBay
Shawneeâs Historic Masonic Building Pops Up On Web Auction Site You can find almost anything on eBay â including a large building in Downtown Shawnee. The Masonic Building, the pride of downtown before the Aldridge was renovated right across 9th Street, is listed on the internet marketplace under real estate – commercial. As of Tuesday [...]
How To Sell Your Services Better
The Small Business Buzz: Regardless of the type of service you sell, a potential client will have a certain degree of risk worry when buying. They don’t really know what will be getting until they see the final outcome (or have really good references!). Services are intangible–you can’t see them, touch them, take them out [...]
Free Podcast Tool: The Levelator
Jake Ludington’s MediaBlab: One of the biggest frustrations of people who record and edit audio is the amount of time it takes to fix volume level issues. If you record two people, one of them is invariably softer than the other in the mix. To solve this common frustration, Gigavox created The Levelator. Essentially, the [...]
Kevin Harmon at Starting an eBay Business Blog: Many people ask me when its time to implement your holiday plan on Ebay – this year, I’ve got a simple answer – TMX Elmo. So, what happens when a company releases a hot product in limited amounts? Please turn to page 9 of your freshman economics [...]
Have Plan in Place To Ride Publicity Wave
The Wall Street Journal Online: So you have a successful small business. What happens when it receives that lightning bolt of publicity that many covet but few ever receive? More important: How do you make sure you don’t blow it? Few small-business owners are ready for the flood of calls and customers that can arrive [...]
“Hot” Home-Based Business Opportunities
The Entrepreneurial Mind: Homestead Technologies (Provides easy-to-use, web site creation software, ecommerce solutions and online marketing products and services.) commissioned a study on home-based businesses and found the following as their list of “hot” opportunities that can be run from home: 1. E-Learning: With advances in new web application tools such as podcasts and video [...]
