Archive for October 27th, 2006
Episode #8 of the Business Opportunities Weblog podcast is up: Mike Garrison, vice-president of the Referral Institute and co-author of Truth or Delusion? Busting Networkings Biggest Myths, is on the show and shares some of his networking tips.
PayPal Inc. 2-year-old campaign to diversify its transaction-processing business beyond the online auction marketplace of its parent, eBay Inc., is starting to show results. Some 37% of the processor’s payment volume in the three months ended Sept. 30 came from merchants outside of eBay, up from 32% in the year-earlier quarter, according to operating statistics [...]
No More Cubes: Not all of us are in the garage trying to build the next great software. Some people want to create something more simple and traditional. Often the media talks about Venture Capital and Angel Investors like that is the only way to get money for your business, but what is often ignored [...]
Unusual Businesses Ideas That Work: Rabbit Movers markets itself as an anomaly in an industry with a bad rep, capitalizing on a staff of artistic types, word-of-mouth referrals, and a Web site that posts positive customer testimonials and descriptions of extra services traditional moving companies don’t usually offer. Rabbit’s founder, former itinerant writer Shawn Lyons, [...]
More Buyers Turn To Web For A Set Of Wheels
USA Today: Thanks to the Internet, you no longer need nerves of steel to buy a car. and it doesn’t matter whether you’re shopping in the new or used car markets. More than 80 percent of consumers surveyed this year by consulting firm Capgemini said they used the Web during the buying process, twice as [...]
