Archive for January 22nd, 2007
Boys Uses Noggin For Cancer Fundraiser
If being diagnosed with leukemia wasn’t bad enough, Patrick Pedraja’s hair started falling out from the chemotherapy treatments. “That was a big thing,” said Patrick, who’s 11 and likes to be called Pat. “I loved my hair.” But his newly expansive forehead gave him a bright idea. If he could get companies to pay to [...]
Now You Can Get A Private Education on eBay
A private Oklahoma university plans to auction a year of its tuition on eBay next month. Oklahoma Wesleyan University executive vice president Bob Myers says officials from the online auction site have told the school that they don’t know of any other college or university that has tried such an auction. Oklahoma college to auction [...]
You Need A Plan When Selling on eBay
Got a Tiffany & Co. ring or vintage Haviland china set just aching for a spot on eBay? Sure, you may make a couple hundred — or even several thousand — dollars off your goods, but selling on the ever-growing online marketplace involves so much more than taking a few pictures, writing a description and [...]
Fourth Quarter Preview On ebay
EBay Inc. reports earnings for the fiscal fourth quarter on Wednesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. OVERVIEW: The online auctioneer likely benefited from the fourth-quarter holiday shopping rush, as more people flocked to the Web to buy gifts this season than ever before. EBay watched [...]
Netflix & Skype Team Up For Online Video
Consumers have yet to recognize the shotgun wedding between the Internet and television, but that hasn’t stopped companies from rolling out devices and programs that will bring the two together. Last week, for instance, Netflix debuted its streaming video service, and the founders of Skype put a brand name on their new project, a peer-to-peer [...]
Get User Feedback When Designing Web Site
BusinessWeek: Daniel Scudder, founder of DormItem.com, a classified ad site for college students has this advice for web designers. One of the more difficult parts of running a Web site is being able to gauge how a user will want to navigate your site. I’ve tackled this problem by showing my site and its many [...]
Not Only the Lonely Become Entrepreneurs
Inc.: Ever wondered about the kinds of people who become entrepreneurs? In a recent survey, 43 percent of entrepreneurs admit they were “loners� as kids, while 25 percent said they would have been described as “nerds.� Accounting software seller Quick Books recently surveyed approximately 1,300 small business owners with 20 or fewer employees to find [...]
Seven Ways to Make Money with Your Web Site
AllBusiness.com: Today, the Web is an intensely commercial medium, offering plenty of ways to make money. And because the Web is still defining itself, your best strategy is to raise as many cash cows as possible. Even if some run dry, you can milk the others to make sure your company´s Web site pays off. [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at David Maister’s blog.
CaffeineMarketing.com For Sale
Guest poster Matthew Peschong has decided to concentrate on web design in his native Minnesota and has put his weblog Caffeine Marketing up for sale.
IRS Shifts Audit Focus To Small & Home Business
Work at Home Blog: When you can’t pick on the big guys because they can hire expensive lawyers, pick on the little guys because they’ll knuckle under to your intimidation and can’t hire $300 per hour tax attorneys to fight off the predators. Supposedly by attacking small businesses and home businesses, they’ll get more tax [...]
Episode #10 of the Business Opportunities Weblog podcast is up. In this episode: Tim discusses how to start and grow a side business while maintaining a day job.
VictoriaTimesColonist: Somewhere on Vancouver Island, a young inventor is working on a device to help people with hand tremors write more clearly. Another is dreaming up a contraption to measure the speed of sports projectiles. And still another young inventor is developing a listening device which will pick up faint voices in noisy rooms. These [...]
Entrepreneur Cleaning Up With Invention
Coloradoan.com: Bill Black doesn’t shy away at challenges. He earned a black belt in karate, learned how to scuba dive and got his private pilot’s license. Now, the 50-year-old Black can add another accomplishment to that list: inventor. Black’s first invention, Samnic, is the world’s first motorized golf cleat cleaner, allowing golfers to clean their [...]
