Archive for January 26th, 2007
Skype Growing Slower Than Expected
Internet auction giant Ebay has admitted that it’s disappointed by the revenue return generated by its voice-over IP company Skype, which it acquired in 2005. Despite Skype’s registered user numbers tripling to 171m by the end of 2006, Ebay’s CEO Meg Whitman told an investor conference that efforts to monetise the service had not lived [...]
NY Times: One of Bradley Ziegler’s favorite days is the day after Christmas, when the bargain bins at Toys “R� Us and Wal-Mart are filled with marked-down DVDs and GameCube games. As he has done for the past two years, Bradley will pick up an armful of $3.99 games and movies and then auction them [...]
5 Marketing Tools for Home-Based Businesses
AllBusiness: Because a home-based business doesn’t have a storefront for passers-by to notice and no opportunity to generate walk-in business, home-based businesses need marketing other types of businesses, not less. Not marketing your home-based business will almost certainly doom it to failure. 1. Direct mail. still a cost-effective way to advertise in many industries. 2. [...]
Six Reasons Why Most Home Based Businesses Fail
Union Sentinel: Every day thousands of people are looking to get out of the “rat race” to work at home. Most of those people want to get started on a home based business so badly that they do not always make wise decisions in choosing a home based business opportunity. As a result, many fail [...]
Home-Business Rules Get Tougher
Chicago Tribune: The Naperville (Illinois) City Council is cracking down on home-based business activities encroaching on residential neighborhoods. The council voted 7-2 to amend the home-based business ordinance so that it no longer restricts the number of employees working in the home, but limits activity outside the home. Complaints over the last year about home [...]
Practical Ecommerce: Abby Weaver is the marketing director for Fajita Grill, a small restaurant with locations in Oswego and Fulton, New York, that successfully uses email marketing and its website to boost sales. “Even before we opened the first restaurant, we had a website. It was just the basics with contact info, and was primarily [...]
Inventor’s Creation Tracks Mice
TheReddingPilot.com: David Curtis is holding a black light and following the tiny glowing footprints of maraudering field mice. “It’s CSI for field mice,� he said recently of his new mouse tracking system, RodoTrak. It offers what he calls a baited box with a car-wash effect dousing mice with florescent powder. As the warm temperatures dip [...]
