Archive for April 3rd, 2007
PayPal Now Features New Alternatives For Buyers
PayPal, both the United Kingdom and United States sites, launched a new service recently that allows merchants to take payments online without using the normal hosted payment gateway that PayPal has used in the past. This new service comes with three main features: Express Checkout, Direct Payment API and Virtual Terminal. Together, they let merchants [...]
Skypes Growth Boosts USB Phone Sales
Skype’s dominance in the VoIP market is boosting the manufacturing industry for Skype phones. There were more than 138 million Skype users worldwide in 2006. As this is expected to continue growing, makers of Skype phones are projecting positive growth for the coming years. The uptick in the mainland China and Taiwan market has been [...]
BusinessWeek: Shrewd entrepreneurs understand that their products will one day reach the end of a development cycle, hit a point of market saturation, or be changed by technological innovations. That’s why they must use some portion of their budgets to conduct strategic research and market testing that will anticipate ways they can shape their product, [...]
Author Makes Super Heroes Out Of Moms
Tonawanda News: Once Melanie Hauserâs two sons reached school age, the stay-at-home mother found herself with extra time. The Ben Davis High School graduate and Indianapolis native didnât have any specific career she wanted to go back to. So she seized the opportunity to write books, something sheâs always loved. Fast forward several years, and [...]
Off The Internet, Into The Homes Of Busy Moms
PRLog: Out of the Box Party knows what Moms go through when planning birthday parties. Thatâs why the sister-team Staci Douglas and Kim Mack started the, Clayton, N.C.-based company back in 2005. The two recognized that Moms everywhere could use a helping hand in making birthday parties convenient, affordable and fun for everyone. Born in [...]
Moms Come To Rescue Of Harried Cooks
Canada.com: Here’s the scenario: You’re standing in front of the open fridge, freezer or pantry, staring into the abyss. In your head, you’re repeating over and over again: “What should I make for dinner?” That’s exactly where Cecilia de la Rocha, a mother of three, found herself many, many, many times. There had to be [...]
Yahoo Finance: KieAnn Brownell considers herself a serial entrepreneur, which means she’s always on the lookout for new business ideas. After running her family’s wholesale floor-covering business, she decided the time was right to transition from carpets to cakes. After learning that more than 700,000 people celebrate a birthday every single day, Brownell set up [...]
Moms Go Into Business To Help Other Moms
Post-Gazette: Leigh Levy, a Mt. Lebanon resident with a master’s degree in marketing, who left her job to stay home with her son and daughter, now 5 and 3, was disappointed in her attempts to sell consignment clothing that her children had outgrown. Last fall, she launched Snuggle Bugs & Co., which stages large-scale consignment [...]
Entrepreneur: Are you trying to make your website more user-friendly? A new study says a smile is all you need. Research done by Li Gong of Ohio State University suggests that the simulated emotions of digital characters online could have a large impact on potential customers who view and interact with them. The study found [...]
Dealing With An Unpredictable Income
Yahoo Finance: All businesses are going to experience some ups and downs. It is the nature of the beast of being in business. Here are two ways to help navigate an unpredictable cash flow: Market, market, market. Several hours every week should be spent identifying potential new clients and new work from past clients and [...]
More Colleges Nuture Business Aspirations
Startup Journal: Two years ago, Arizona State University graduate student Greg Peterson and a friend hatched plans for a TV show that would instruct homeowners how to renovate in environmentally and socially responsible ways. But the two didn’t have enough money to cover the production costs, or the expertise to market the show. They submitted [...]
