Archive for February 5th, 2007
eBay Entrepreneurship Conference
Inc.: Attendee registration is now open for eBay’s sixth annual community conference, which will take place in Boston on June 14-16, organizers said. eBay Live! aims at helping users improve their entrepreneurial skills through classes, roundtables, and panels, the company said. Guest speakers will include personal finance guru Suze Orman, marketing expert Seth Godin, and [...]
Some Things Beat A Hefty Paycheck
CNNMoney.com: Big paychecks and bonuses aren’t everything. Some employees would prefer a better quality of life than a higher salary, suggests a survey. Sixty-two percent of small-business employees think that salaries are better at large companies, according to Salary.com’s Working for a Small Business Survey. But they like working at small companies anyway for reasons [...]
6 Steps To Prevent Credit Card Fraud
Practical eCommerce: John Waldron is co-owner of e-onlinedata, inc., a credit-card merchant-account provider, offers the following advice for merchants who wish accept credit-card payments from international customers. 1. Ask customer for fax verification. For suspect orders or large orders, ask the customer to fax the front and back of his credit card as well as [...]
Chalkboard Art Is Booming Business
Seattle PI: They toil over the perfect shade of pigment, the architectural details of an elaborate building, the luminescence of a wine glass. Yet their work can be obliterated with a few fingers or a wet rag. They are chalkboard artists. And though they live in comparative obscurity, their creations are everywhere — restaurants, coffee [...]
Tamara Monosoff at Entrepreneur.com: What’s changed in the world of inventions? It’s not just the technology–it’s the inventors themselves. 1. Inventors are becoming more diverse. Developing a good idea presents an equal opportunity playing field, and those who were formerly underrepresented are exploring those opportunities. 2. Inventors are stepping into the limelight. More often than [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalist is up at Mighty Bargin Hunter.
Monks to Sell Bread, Cake on Web
Associated Press: An upstate New York order of monks who don’t watch TV or listen to the radio will soon be going high-tech to offer their baked goods for sale on the Internet. Thousands of loaves of bread are baked at the Abbey of the Genesee in the hamlet of Piffard, south of Rochester, each [...]
