Archive for October 25th, 2006
Great Big Small Business Show Podcast
Work at Home Chuck pointed to a great new podcast today: If you’re into Small Business Podcasts, you’ll love browsing the archives of the Great Big Small Business Show to hear the lastest information from the “trenches� of small business survival. Here’s there website: The Great Big Small Business Show
How to Come up With a Great Product Idea
American Inventor Spot: Ever wonder how inventors come up with those great ideas? Myra Per-Lee developed, manufactured, and marketed about a dozen products in a ten year period, most on her own with very little start-up capital. The most successful of her inventions, massage tools for adults, animals and infants, known as Nukkles®, Nuzzles®, and [...]
Vapps Introduces Premium Skype Conference Calls
Vapps introduced a premium version of its VoIP conference-calling service for Skype users Tuesday, adding the ability to record, download, and moderate calls of up to 500 participants. The Hoboken, New Jersey-based company introduced free conference calls for Skype users in June (see Vapps, Skype Free Conferences). In September, Vapps expanded the free service to [...]
French Canadians Get Bilingual Enchanced Acess
Anyone wishing to buy or sell items on eBay Canada can now do so in either French or English, or bilingually, the on-line auction house announced today. At the top of each Web page, eBay has placed a toggle that will allow the buyer to search for items in either English or French. Sellers have [...]
eBay Has Made Selling Almost Effortless
With more than 2 billion items listed on eBay in the past year, and close to $50 billion sold, the sheer size of this online marketplace can be overwhelming. Fortunately, as eBay has grown, the company has worked hard to make it easier for new sellers to get started and be successful. Here are 10 [...]
ShopNBC Expands By Selling on eBay
ValueVision Media, Inc. (Nasdaq: VVTV) an upscale television home shopping and Internet retailer, extends its auction business into the world’s largest auction marketplace with the launch of ShopNBC on eBay. ValueVision will sell samples, products used on air, returns, and discontinued products through eBay. “ShopNBC’s unique products and great values will now be available to [...]
BuySafe Moving Beyond Just eBay
BuySafe extended its ecommerce bonding service beyond eBay to merchants’ own websites in June. The company will now offer merchants the option of letting buyers choose whether to use the bonding service on transactions, in which case the buyer pays the BuySafe fee instead of the merchant. BuySafe’s Bonded Shopping program qualifies eBay, Overstock.com, and [...]
Now Get More With Skype Gold 2.0
Skype on Monday announced the “Goldâ€? release of its eponymous Voice over IP (VoIP) communications software for the Macintosh. Skype for Mac 2.0 is now available for download. Skype 2.0 for Mac supports free audio and video calls to any other Skype users, regardless of what platform they’re running Skype on. You can have conference [...]
Singer Sells Song Lyric On Ebay
Evening Standard: Jonathan Haselden was desperate to get his music noticed, so he decided to try selling lines from his track Roller-Coaster on the internet auction site. But when the 25-year-old posted the auction for the lyric: “And when you’re lost, you’ll always be found” for a starting price of 6p, it sparked a frenzied [...]
The Orlando Sentinel: We’ve all been there before. In need of a mental-health day. In need of a couple more hours to sleep off that horrible hangover. Or just plain in need of a day away from thinking. But who wants to wake up at the crack of dawn to avoid talking to the boss [...]
Entrepreneur Daily: Snap, a cafe in Washington, DC , has done away with cumbersome coins and bills and accepts only plastic . The owner loves her new Point-Of-Sale model since she rarely has to go to the bank, she doesn’t have to make change, she can trust that her employees aren’t pocketing any cash, and [...]
Business Insurance Is Good, but Corporations and LLCs Are Better!
Corporate Bee: Business liability insurance is a must for virtually every business. Even if you think the risks of a lawsuit are slim to none, the possibility still exists. A client slips and falls on an icy sidewalk, a customer’s order is not delivered on time, or an employee is involved in an auto accident [...]
