Archive for February 9th, 2007
Know Your Profit Margin to Sell on eBay
It is easy to begin selling items on eBay, and almost anyone can register to do so. However, the difficult part is coming up with an idea that will offer a profitable return on investment. You have to plan carefully to be sure that you will profit from your eBay business venture, and this means [...]
PayPal Phishing Scams Becoming More Realistic
There are several scams circulating the phone lines, snail mail and of course the internet. Internet scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated and more and more realistic. These so called phishing scams can come up on anyone’s email account, and a lot of them look legit and are complete with logos. “They used to do it [...]
eBay Looking to Team Up with MySpace
Online auctioneer eBay Inc. is in talks to supply electronic payments and auction features to the popular MySpace social network and other New Corp.’s online properties, according to people familiar with the situation. The negotiations have been ongoing for months, a source said, but no deals have yet been reached. The potential tie-up of two [...]
Skype Wins Lawsuit with StreamCast
StreamCast Networks, developer of Morpheus file-sharing software, lost its $4.1 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Skype and parent eBay. StreamCast claimed that Skype’s founders broke an agreement to give StreamCast the right of first refusal to Skype’s VoIP phone technology. The founder had been with Kazaa at the time. The judge ruled that [...]
College Tuition Selling Well on eBay
A school in Bartlesville, Okla., is letting eBay bidders decide just what a year’s education is worth. Oklahoma Wesleyan University is auctioning off a year of tuition, room and board, KOTV, Oklahoma City, reported. Usually, tuition alone costs $23,000, but the school hopes the auction allows someone big savings. With a few days to go, [...]
eBay’s Style Ambassadors Do Complete Room Makeover
Lunar New Year arrived early this year for popular twins May and Choy, who were handed $7,000 and two weeks as eBay’s Style Ambassadors to give their two-bedroom rented condo at Telok Blangah a thorough makeover. The catch, of course, was that everything had to be bought through eBay. Self-confessed online shopping addicts, the twins [...]
Prince’s Bandana from 2007 Superbowl Selling on eBay
An article of clothing that closely resembles the Pashmina we bought the other day on Sixth Avenue is for sale on eBay for $455.00. The price is justified because, according to the seller, it is in fact the actual bandanna Prince wore during his racy halftime show at the Super Bowl. âI was lucky enough [...]
5 Ways To Grow Your Small Business
NFIB: Are you happy with your business, or is it time to expand? If you are looking to grow, consider these business-building ideas that could take your company to the next level. 1. Embrace the Internet: Create a Web site In today’s digital age, having a Web site and e-mail address is expected of a [...]
NFIB: It’s easy to get overwhelmed when shopping for business gadgets. When everything’s marked as a must-have productivity booster, how are you supposed to know what to buy? Look no further–here’s a list of the five pieces of technology every small business should have: 1. A mobile computing device: Smartphones, laptops and tablet PCs are [...]
Online Favorites: News & Music
eMarketer.com: News for the middle-aged, music videos for young adults. Those are two of the main findings of a new study conducted by InsightExpress on behalf of Advertising.com regarding online video viewing habits. According to the study of 500 adults ages 18 and older, nearly half of streaming video users were likely to watch news [...]
Working from Home Boosts Productivity
Inc.: More than a third of employees who use computers say working at home has made them much more productive than they were five years ago, according to a new telephone survey by Ipsos Public Affairs. The survey, conducted for Lexmark, a Lexington, Ky.-based printer company, found that as many as 55 percent of employees [...]
New Benefits of Web-Search Queries
The Wall Street Journal: Some businesses are discovering that Web search isn’t just for marketing their offerings — but also for deciding what to sell in the first place. National Instruments Corp., an Austin, Texas, maker of software and hardware for engineers and scientists, had for years sold products that required buyers to install circuit [...]
