Archive for February 27th, 2007

Keep Your eBay Profits By Saving on Shipping

Remember the early days of eBay selling, when saving money was of prime importance? People were dumpster diving for memorabilia to sell–still not a bad idea–picking up packing peanuts once a week from the local beauty supply store and foraging for boxes behind any store possible. Those were the days. I even remember creative eBay [...]

 

Web Business Fights Junk Mail

The Oakland Press: It’s become a daily ritual: rifling through your mail to separate real notices from advertisements. With each person receiving nearly 560 pieces of junk mail a year, a group of Michigan residents has come up with an idea to curb the waste. Sander DeVries, and his brothers Shane Pfannes and Tim Pfannes, [...]

 

Niche Biz: My First Home Niche Biz: My First Home

Entrepreneur: Garry Aloia is an owner and managing partner of My First Home, a business that caters specifically to first-time homebuyers. Aloia, who also co-owns parent company New State Mortgage, came up with the idea when he realized that because agents are driven by commissions, “human nature takes over. If there’s a bigger commission involved, [...]

 

Meetings Make Us Dumber Meetings Make Us Dumber

MSNBC: People have a harder time coming up with alternative solutions to a problem when they are part of a group, new research suggests. Scientists exposed study participants to one brand of soft drink then asked them to think of alternative brands. Alone, they came up with significantly more products than when they were grouped [...]

 

Turn Your iPod Into Full Working PC Turn Your iPod Into Full Working PC

Yahoo Tech: What if your entire PC could fit on your iPod (or any other MP3 player, hard drive, USB flash device or even a cell phone)? No more struggling with excess laptop weight and your fully-rigged mobile “computer” would fit right in your pocket. RingCube Technologies, Inc. says that’s when you’ve got your Mojo [...]

 

IRS Urged To Go After eBayers

San Francisco Chronicle: When it comes to paying income taxes, eBay’s legions of small-time entrepreneurs are on an honor system in which they are supposed to declare their profits to the Internal Revenue Service. Many users, however, ignore the law or are unaware of their obligation. Now a growing chorus of tax experts is hoping [...]