Archive for October 4th, 2007
Home-Based Agents Make Trade Offs For Home Office
Inside Bay Area: Megan Hanlon-Akright wanted to get to back into the work force. But she didn’t want to go back to commuting to a job. A flexible schedule was what the 47-year-old Danville resident was looking for, something that would let her work at home so she could be around when her 9-year-old daughter [...]
Mom Whips Up Mini Pie Business
WBALTV11: A Baltimore County stay-at-home mom has started her own miniature pie business called Cutie Pie. Aime Stewart is a hard-working stay-at-home mother of three, but she’s also a self-described entrepreneur. She said that in the middle of the night one night, she decided she would start a business making individual-sized pies in just about [...]
Online Glazed Baked Ham Company Helps Moms Save Time and Money
Business Wire: Mother of two and Founder of Pams-hams, Pam Cole is on a mission to de-stress the holidays for Moms across America. The simplicity of the site’s specialty, a glazed baked ham, is that it is perfection with no preparation. That solved, moms can once again be part of the holiday traditions with their [...]
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Summer is the hardest time of year for Judi Thilges. She has a business to run from her Peters home, just as she does the rest of the year. But in those three frenetic summer months, she has her four children there with her, because they’re not in school. “You’ve got to be [...]
Yahoo Users To see Less PayPal Phishing
iTwire Yahoo Mail is today applying the DomainKeys authentication technology to block emails purporting to be from eBay or PayPal. DomainKeys allows an email server to verify that an email really did originate from the domain it claims to be from. So a phishing email coming from a zombie PC connected to an ISP cannot [...]
eBay Fears Internet Access Taxes
Associated Press An eBay executive warned Wednesday that fewer small businesses would sell products through the Web auctioneer, and elsewhere online, without a permanent ban on Internet access taxes. Congress first imposed a moratorium on taxing Internet access — which bars state and local governments from taxing the connection to basic Internet content — in [...]
eBay to Crack Down on Selling Recalled Items
Kansascity.com EBay Inc. said sellers who inadvertently are listing recalled items will be sent a message from the company with a copy of its policy forbidding such sales. “Listing items on eBay which have been recalled is strictly prohibited, and if the Consumer Product Safety Commission asks eBay to remove an item, we will take [...]
Rapid TV News Skype’s co-founders have – almost – left the building! Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the co-founders of VoIP service Skype have resigned, and there are signs that all is not well at eBay which paid a mind-numbing pile of cash for Skype. The inventive paid are also the brains behind web-based download [...]
Rapid TV News Skype’s co-founders have – almost – left the building! Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the co-founders of VoIP service Skype have resigned, and there are signs that all is not well at eBay which paid a mind-numbing pile of cash for Skype. The inventive paid are also the brains behind web-based download [...]
Skype Not Pulling It’s Own Weight
Internet Financial News Business Week and the Wall Street Journal are all over eBays latest word on Skype”and that looks to be Whoops. After paying $1.3 billion cash… …and $1.3 billion stock two years ago, eBay is regretting its decision and partnering with Skype rival Jajah. eBay reports that theyll be taking a 3rd quarter [...]
Entrepreneur: A new survey sponsored by RSM McGladrey and the National Association of Women Business Owners has created a profile of today’s average woman entrepreneur. After surveying 650 women across the country, the 2007 Survey of Women Business Owners found that women entrepreneurs are more educated. Here are other key findings from the survey: They [...]
Niche Marketing Can Separate You From All The Rest
Gainesville Times: Once upon a time there were two soft drink companies. With the names Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola, each tried with all its might to lure consumers to drink its product. A more contemporary name for segmentation in today’s business environment is niche marketing. Why is segmentation or niche marketing important to small businesses? [...]
Top Small Workplaces 2007: Gentle Giant Moving
The Wall Street Journal: Think “great place to work,” and big companies like Google typically spring to mind. But across the country, many small businesses and nonprofits have built workplace environments and cultures that rival — or even outshine — the big names. Moving is a tough, stressful business — one that few people plan [...]
Entrepreneur: Think hiring a driver means a flashy black Town Car and a hefty price tag? Avis Rent A Car is setting out to challenge that notion by offering chauffeurs to customers in the top 10 business markets, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington D.C. Avis supplies the car, and WeDriveU, a San [...]
Mom-And-Pop Niche In Radio Market
Savannah Morning News: Savannahians who tune in to 1400 on the AM dial are in for something a little different. The former gospel station is the new home for classic oldies from crooners such as Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Michael Buble and Tony Bennett. Part of the MarMac Communications family, Star 1400 isn’t looking to [...]
