Archive for December 10th, 2006
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at samaBlog.
Web Site Designed To Draw Birders
Daily Astorian: Proponents of nature-based tourism hope the debut of the Oregon Coast Birding Trail Web site will draw bird-watchers and their pocket books to area shoreline communities. The site offers a self-guided driving itinerary highlighting the prime locations for observing birds along the Oregon Coast and into Northern California. Local birders, wildlife professionals and [...]
NYTimes.com: Just when travelers thought they had run out of things to complain about at the airport, their fading laptops and cellphones have signaled yet another problem: a shortage of power outlets. Airport concourses, particularly older ones, were never known for their abundance of electrical sockets. But a convergence of factors — including new wireless [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine: Brian Prins is an affable salesman who touts the benefits of his prepaid collect-calling service in a distinct Long Island accent. He’s also an ex-con who served five years in a Pennsylvania state prison for aggravated assault and possession of stolen car parts, so when he explains that he’s simply helping families [...]
Marketing Your Business on Craigslist
Shanon Lewis at Entrepreneur.com: From e-commerce websites to furniture wholesalers, small businesses both online and off are realizing the marketing power of Craigslist. Founded in 1996, Craigslist.org gets an estimated 10 million unique visitors per day. With an online classified ads format organized by either region or city, Craigslist connects buyers and sellers in more [...]
Mark and Lisa Solomon are both lawyers. One day in September 2005, Mark was joking around and said: Lawyers should have watches marked in tenths of an hour, the way many lawyers, paralegals and law clerks bill for their time. Lisa started searching for manufacturers on the web, and worked with a graphic designer and [...]
eBay Making Small Towns More Entrepreneurial
Inc.: An estimated 750,000 Americans now make all or part of their living on eBay — and many of those online entrepreneurs hail from smaller towns, according to eBay’s “Community Counts” project, which identified the site’s most active communities. During a three-week period in November, the online marketplace tracked how many times people from each [...]
