Archive for October 16th, 2006
PayPal Adds New Countries and Currencies
The very well informed Ina Steiner from AuctionBytes.com wrote on Friday that eBay’s online payment service PayPal now supports payments in 10 new currencies. This allows customers to send, receive and hold funds in any of 17 total currencies worldwide. eBay buyers can now pay for merchandise in their local money and the funds gets [...]
Cellphone Site Hopes To Give eBay Some Competition
Buying a mobile phone at the pub or just passing on an old handset to a sibling could lose appeal with the launch on Monday of a phone-only auction Web site by the mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse Plc. In a country with more handsets than people, Carphone hopes the site, www.mymobileauction.com, will rival online [...]
Paula’s Asking Price Too High For eBay Auction
Singer PAULA ABDUL’s foray into the world of eBay has ended without success – after an auction to win a day with the AMERICAN IDOL judge received no bids. Fox TV executives had hoped for a bidding war over the VIP package, which included two first-class tickets to Los Angeles, a GBP1,200 ($2,225) shopping spree, [...]
Surprising Lessons From Johnny Cash
Carrie Lauth at Market Day: I’ve unearthed some surprising bits of wisdom for new work-at-home-moms by listening to Johnny Cash lately. I thought I would share some of these tidbits from the music legend. Understand Your Man …er, target market! Do you understand your target market? Are you aware of her needs, desires and driving [...]
Top Five Tax Breaks For At-Home Entrepreneurs
Forbes.com: By the Census Bureau’s last count in 2002, half of all businesses in the U.S. are home-based. The U.S. government encourages this kind of entrepreneurship. Dig deep and at-home entrepreneurs will find a few precious tax deductions. Alterations to the tax code in 1999 made it easier to qualify for home-office tax deductions. Below [...]
Small Biz Resource: Business.gov
Entrepreneur Daily: Most of you may be familiar with the SBA’s primary website but did you also know they have another business site on the Web? Originally launched in 2004, business.gov’s focus was on starting, growing and financing small businesses, but after numerous requests from site users, the site’s switched gears. It’s now re-launched as [...]
Market Research on a Home Business Budget
tosmagazine.com: Market research is the process of learning what consumers want, quantifying the size of the market, discovering the number and nature of the competitors, and finding collaborators or organizations that exist in the market that are interested in your success. In the life of your business, there will be many critical points at which [...]
Franchising Your Business Idea?
Small Biz Mentor: The September 2006 issue of Working Mother magazine features a pair of entrepreneurial moms who started not only their own business, but have come up with a family-friendly business idea others can get into at a fairly affordable rate. Julie Burleson and Suzy Nettles, shared their thoughts about the creation of their [...]
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