Archive for April 30th, 2007
eBay Is a Great Start For Retail Business
For someone who’s interested in starting a retail business, I can’t think of a more perfect incubator than eBay (EBAY – Cramer’s Take – Stockpickr – Rating). The auction site, now in its 12th year, is the world’s most robust online marketplace, serving up more than $44 billion in sales every year. Nearly a quarter [...]
PayPal Awarded Online Safety Leadership Award
PayPal today announced it has been given the Online Safety Leadership Award by the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance (AOTA). The awards recognize companies that have demonstrated a commitment to preserving and improving online safety. The AOTA Leadership Awards were judged by a panel of experts in online safety including representatives of the AOTA Steering [...]
PayPal & eBay Face Unfair Monopoly Allegations
eBay warned shareholders yesterday that it is facing a possible class action suit in the state of California and is likely to be hit by more patent cases. The suit alleges that eBay and PayPal acted “to improperly ‘monopolise’ the forms of payment that sellers can use on eBay”. The plaintiff claims treble damages and [...]
eBay Rivals Can Use Amazon Distribution
Amazon.com, the world’s largest e-tailer, is expanding a program designed to allow independent sellers – including those on eBay – to use its network of distribution centers to store and ship their products, according to a report published Friday. The New York Times, citing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, said the e-tailer has had the “Fulfillment [...]
Pick an New Name for eBay Seller
Karen Dobos wants a new name. She feels no connection to her current name (which came from her ex-husband) or to her previous name (she was Karen Paul when she graduated from Poquoson High School in 1994). So she’s ready to let a complete stranger pick her new surname. For a price. “The idea really [...]
Leave it up to the kooks at Buffalo to come up with a strange design like this. This conference call speaker looks more like an overgrown gas mask or some sort of strange space ship than an actual useful device. But that shouldn’t take away from its functionality, right? Fully compatible with Skype, the Buffalo [...]
Skype Development Chief To Speak Reguarding 10 Million Downloads
Skype has announced that there have been more than 10 million downloads of Skype Extras since the Extras Manager in Skype™ 3.0 for Windows was launched in late December 2006. Extras are plug-ins written by independent third-party developers that let users expand Skype functionality and enrich their Skype conversations. I asked Paul Amery, Director of [...]
Why Should You Consider Working At Home?
Garden and Hearth: Working at home isn’t for everyone, there are certain major adjustments you have to do and hindrances you have to overcome in order to be a successful wahm. Still, the pros far outweigh the cons. So if you’re thinking of becoming a work at home mom yet still unsure if this is [...]
In Honor Of Mothers Day, New Website And Training Program To Help WAHMs
eMediaWire: With the launch appropriately coinciding with Mother’s Day, a new training program targeted at working moms, and dubbed 6 Figure Work At Home Mom, is being introduced on May 16, 2007. The program includes a five-week teleconference series designed to teach moms how to create a work at home business that will yield them [...]
Work At Home Moms Connect For Mothers Day
PR Leap: For Mother’s day this year, Two WAHMS have teamed up to sponsor a “Mama Said There’d be Days like This” essay writing contest. Baby boomer author Beverly Mahone of North Carolina and Internet Radio Host Rebecca White of Ohio decided to join forces after recognizing they were doing the same thing individually. Mahone [...]
eBay’s Long Term Potential More Diverse
With such large markets available for eBay’s new businesses, it is not difficult to imagine a future in which eBay’s auction business no longer dominates the company. eBay sees that long-term potential, though company executives underscore that a chief objective is to “reinvigorate” the core business. In its television ads, eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) describes itself [...]
Over the past couple of years, Skype has gained acceptance as one of the easiest ways to save money on long-distance phone calls, allowing users from anywhere in the world to converse for free over the internet. This popular VoIP telephony service also allows users to make dirt cheap phone calls to landlines and mobile [...]
Breaking eBay Down to The Basics
The world’s biggest online auction, eBay, can seem bewildering to beginners. You can buy stuffed squirrels, rare paintings, cut-price commodities and celebrity curiosities of all kinds. But the one thing people can’t seem to find on eBay is the manual. For many first-time buyers the frustration is palpable: they just cannot seem to win an [...]
Entrepreneur: It’s a giant among video game consoles, a brand name like almost no other, an entertainment product that needs no introduction. The Nintendo Wii. Some products and services are so well known, they hardly need an introduction. Nintendo Wii may not have the name cache of McDonald’s or Wal-Mart. But it does have brand [...]
SBA Names Small Biz of the Year
Entrepreneur: Two sisters from Lumberton, North Carolina have been named National Small Business Persons of the Year by the SBA. Bobbie Jacobs-Ghaffar and Lesa Jacobs’ healthcare business, Native Angels Home Care and Hospice, received the award during SBA’s two-day Small Business Week 2007 conference. The sisters, both members of the Lumbee Indian Tribe, launched their [...]
Great Biz Read: Out of the Crisis
Entrepreneur: Business authors and experts have proclaimed enough revolutions to fill a long shelf. Most of these turn out more like ripples than tidal waves, as a check of any bookstore’s markdown shelves will show. Of the thousands of business books published in the last 30 years, only a handful have withstood the assaults of [...]
Unusual Business Ideas That Work: Flexpetz recently launched in Los Angeles and San Diego, and offers consumers the option of having a dog for just a few hours or days a week. Which is a good solution for people who’d love to have a dog, but are too busy, travel frequently, or live in buildings [...]
It’s Never Too Early to Invent
Entrepreneur Daily: A new website and media campaign are encouraging children to use their imagination to come up with technological innovations of the future. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is working with the Advertising Council and the National Inventors Hall of Fame in launching the new initiative InventNow. The program targets kids between 8 [...]
