Archive for October 18th, 2006
2006 Hawaii Earthquake T-Shirt
Business Opportunities Weblog readers are a smart bunch. Nearly every day, I get at least one email from someone who’s recently been inspired to start a new business. I just received a message from a reader in Hawaii who found a way to profit off of and help the victims of the 2006 Hawaiian earthquake [...]
Caffeine Marketing: Often associated with baby girls, Barbie dolls, and metro-sexuals, the color pink has increasingly become a marketing strategy for businesses this month. Beginning in 1992, Estee Lauder gave out loops of pink ribbon to raise awareness of breast cancer. Since then, October has been marked the month of pink for marketers and breast [...]
Ex-PayPal Employees Turn Out New Start-ups
Every now and then, a group of former PayPal employees get together to catch up on life and work. It might be at a backyard barbecue, a birthday celebration at a classy San Francisco restaurant or a simple late-night reunion at someone’s house. Â Almost inevitably, the conversation turns to business, and soon enough, a [...]
Google Store Connector Expands Your eBay Store Easily
If you have an online store with eBay, Amazon or Yahoo, why not make sure that Google users can find it, too? Google Base Store Connector is a free download that puts info about your store into our index, so that when people search Google for the products you have to sell, you’ll show up [...]
eBay University Helps Eliminated Error For New Sellers
Sure, you can learn about online auctions by trial and error, but there may be a better way. If you’re committed to doing business on eBay right, a class or two at eBay University 2006 may help you get and stay on course. The annual traveling teach-in educates senior auctioneers by teaching them how to [...]
Landscape StartUp: Jake Wolf started his landscape business by accident after posting “Landscape design student needs your home for portfolio development� on a local yahoo group he belonged to. Back then the group had about 2000 members. Within one week of his post, he had received over 30 calls and had lined up enough work [...]
5 Ingredients You Absolutely Need For Success
Fresh Thinking Business Blog: For any entrepreneur starting up in business, there are five ingredients needed for success: 1. An idea for a product or service that customers are willing to buy at a sufficiently high price to allow for a big margin above cost. 2. The ability to provide the product or service. 3. [...]
Calorie-Counted Meal Delivery Service
Springwise.com: Mumbai rivals the pace of the fastest cities around the globe. And just like everywhere else, junk food is an easy and popular meal option. To the rescue comes Calorie Care, which delivers healthy food to a customer’s door. Calorie Care is India’s first calorie-counted meal delivery service, and their mission is to make [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Dispatches From Blogblivion.
HeraldToday.com: Most of us only think we come up with our best ideas over Happy Hour. For Martha Schewe, that theory is tried and true. Schewe, who creates wearable art – jewelry and handbags out of dominoes, bottle caps and vinyl records – thought up two of the lines for her business thanks to a [...]
TechNewsWorld: Want to be your own boss? Got an itch to try your hand at e-commerce, but don’t consider yourself a techie? Maybe you’ve got an eye for style, the next big fad, or just useful products. Or perhaps you have the pulse of a particular space, as well as the sales and marketing savvy [...]
