Archive for March 29th, 2007
Google’s New PPA Program Opens Up New Opportunities for
Search Engine Journal: Last week, Google announced the beta test of their new pay-per-action (PPA) advertising program. In addition, Google mentioned a new ad format, the text link ad (which will presumably be similar to the current referral text link unit.), would be available. This new ad format, along with the new PPA (or affiliate) [...]
Biz Idea: Archiving Internet Content
Dave Winer: I’d like to be able to pay a web company like Amazon or Google a one-time flat fee to host my content for perpetuity. I’d deposit my writing with them, on the web, and not worry about whether or not my heirs will keep paying the hosting bills to keep it alive. Today [...]
Startup Spark: It’s not good enough to want to survive, your goal should be to excel. This is something I’ve dealt with personally – a company that survived but could never get beyond that. Most of the time, surviving is better than dying, and if your business survived through the dot com crash or a [...]
How to Show Recent Comments After the First Post
A reader wrote: Dane, how do you place advertisements (or other content) after the first (and subsequent) posts on your blog? Something I’ve done with my blogs for a long time is to place a variety of different content after different posts on the front page. For instance, on all of the Business Opportunities Weblog [...]
15 Common Mistakes that Violate Google Adsense TOS
Quick Online Tips: Never click your own adsense ads or get them clicked for whatever reason. Never change the Adsense code. Do not place more than 3 ad unit and 1 ad links or 2 adsense search boxes on any web page. Do not run competitive contextual text ad or search services on the same [...]
Juggling Parenthood And A Business
MSNBC: More stay-at-home moms are redirecting their creativity, experience and education into starting businesses on the side. Whether your goals are as simple as supplementing the familyâs income or as lofty as building a company that could eventually be worth millions, starting part-time is a great way to test the business waters. But between helping [...]
Busy Mom Helps Autistic Son With Home Based Business
PRBuzz: Rana Burr is no ordinary mom. When her son, Montana was diagnosed with autism at the age of 6, she decided to take matters into her own hands. âI didnât want to settle for the services that insurance covered or that the school district provided,â? she says. âI am trained in music therapy and [...]
Military Mom Has A Colorful Idea
The Dallas Morning News: DaLonna Rimsky had a stroke of business inspiration while trying to help her children cope with their father’s deployment overseas. Ms. Rimsky turned photos of her husband, Michael, into coloring book pages for Colin, now 6, and Paige, 3, and found the activity helped ease their loneliness. She’s hoping to help [...]
Growing Spotlight On Baby Einstein Founder
USA Today: Julie Aigner-Clark, founder of the children’s educational video company, is appearing this week at Microsoft’s second annual Small Business Summit. She’s also one of 16 millionaire “mompreneurs” — mothers who launched companies — who are the subject of a new edition of Secrets of Millionaire Moms, to be published tomorrow. Aigner-Clark shot her [...]
Squido: Write something worth reading! Put it into Word or a similar word processor. Change your page layout to wide. Even better, change your page size to eight inches wide and six inches high. Use a legible font for the body copy. Times is fine, but boring. Don’t use something fancy. Use a headline font [...]
TV Turning Youth in Entrepreneurs
The Sun: TV shows like The Apprentice and Dragons’ Den are turning Britain’s youngsters into entrepreneurs, official statistics reveal. The programmes featuring charismatic tycoons and wannabe businessmen and women are helping to create a new generation of whiz kids who want to make millions by creating their own companies. Seven out of ten young entrepreneurs [...]
Canada.com: Many mothers have the same “mompreneur” fantasy. It usually hits them after countless days spent changing diapers and nursing hungry babies. It’s rarely that easy, but the dream is compelling enough that it often makes ambitious mothers want to jump on the mompreneur bandwagon. After all, how hard can it be? The answer is [...]
Jim Blasingame: Lockjaw is one of the greatest impediments to small business success. Not the kind you get when you don’t get a tetanus shot after you step on a nail. I’m talking about the tendency small business owners have to not ask questions. It’s amazing to observe this facet of the metamorphosis of entrepreneurs. [...]
Women Entrepreneurs: Win $1000 Tomorrow
Women 2.0: Women 2.0 invites you to submit your business idea on a paper napkin no larger than 7×7 inches. Put it down, mark it up, and propose to us your most innovative solution, an emerging technology, a way to save the world, a way to become rich! We want you to launch your new [...]
Women Entrepreneurs: Win $1000 Tomorrow
Women 2.0: Women 2.0 invites you to submit your business idea on a paper napkin no larger than 7×7 inches. Put it down, mark it up, and propose to us your most innovative solution, an emerging technology, a way to save the world, a way to become rich! We want you to launch your new [...]
NY Times: Think you can juggle phone calls, e-mail, instant messages and computer work to get more done in a time-starved world? Several research reports, both recently published and not yet published, provide evidence of the limits of multitasking. The findings, according to neuroscientists, psychologists and management professors, suggest that many people would be wise [...]
6 Steps To Creating A Super Startup
Fortune: If you want to be an entrepreneur, you’re in good company. An average of 464,000 adults a month create new businesses, according to the most recent statistics available from the Kauffman Foundation , which tracks and promotes entrepreneurship. But starting a business is a complicated, risky, all-consuming effort. Indeed, just two-thirds of new small [...]
Niche Biz: Customized Lingerie
Springwise: When Chicagoan Jenny Dombroski spotted the NikeID website where consumers can customize sneakers according to their preferences, she knew it was a concept that could work for lingerie too. So Dombroski, who loves lingerie but knew nothing about the apparel industry, spent six months networking, asking lots of questions and working in a lingerie [...]
Inventor Tells Mosquitos To Buzz Off
American-Statesman: It was one “skeeter” bite too many for Austin lawyer Blair Dancy. Dancy’s two young boys had walked in from backyard play covered in mosquito welts from the garden and patio areas. The sight of his bump-covered, itching boys was the last straw and the mother of invention. A natural problem solver, he invented [...]
Inc.: EZPay, a Chehalis, Wash.-based financial services firm, has launched an application that enables small businesses to have checks printed and mailed online. EZPay Small Businesses Solutions eliminates the need for business to print checks in the workplace and mail them to customers, clients or suppliers separately, saving time and resources, the company said. “This [...]
AZCentral.com: Valerie Peters, 43, is an 18-year resident of Ahwatukee. Peters was a metallurgical engineer for Honeywell when she had her second child. She went back to work for six weeks then quit to start a home business in August 1996 with one computer and one laser printer. She read a book on mailing list [...]
Mompreneurs Online: New and exciting work options seem to pop up all the time in today’s fast-paced cyber-world. Even so, certain fields have emerged as the most popular — and successful — online choices. Explore our hot picks to see if there’s something that fits your skills, talents or interests. 1. Coaching and Teaching 2. [...]
Entrepreneur Delivers Much-Needed Service
Pittsburgh Live: Grocery shopping for Rene Lopez became magical after he moved Downtown. Lopez merely has to make up a shopping list, and the next day, his groceries are waiting at home for him after work, with the perishables in the fridge and freezer. “I’m working all the time, and I’m just too busy. When [...]
eCommerce-Guide: One day in the early 1990′s Diana Duyser of Hollywood, Fla. made herself a grilled- cheese sandwich. Then she gazed down at the brown skillet marks on the bread: “I saw a face looking up at me; it was the Virgin Mary staring back. I was in total shock,” she later told reporters. Diana [...]
Springwise: When Chicagoan Jenny Dombroski spotted the NikeID website where consumers can customize sneakers according to their preferences, she knew it was a concept that could work for lingerie too. So Dombroski, who loves lingerie but knew nothing about the apparel industry, spent six months networking, asking lots of questions and working in a lingerie [...]
