Archive for October 11th, 2007
13WMAZ: We’re still 3 weeks away from Halloween, but many stores already have Christmas items on their shelves. If you’re looking for a way to make some extra money for the holiday shopping season some users from our Middle Georgia Moms Web site suggest you look into work-at-home opportunities. Michelle Rhoades is an independent consultant [...]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: It’s Thursday morning in Murrysville and the babies in a colorfully decorated room on the ground floor of the United Methodist Church are doing pretty much what babies do: They fuss, they watch each other, and they put whatever toy or item they touch into their mouth. Lisa Petzel has music playing in [...]
BBC News A trader who has developed a multimillion-pound business has been named the first eBay seller of the year. Jamie Murray, 28, from St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, beat 20m other “eBayers” to the auction site’s title. His trading of memory cards and electronic accessories gained the highest number of the site’s satisfied customers over [...]
Will eBay’s Neighborhoods Increase Sales
Wired Blog Network After a week of negative headlines regarding its overpayment for Skype, today eBay launched Neighborhoods, its own social network of sorts meant to get passionate collectors talking about their crap. My initial reaction was a groan—another social network? And as Kevin Kelleher pointed out on GigaOm, eBay’s certainly late to the party. [...]
GoTalk Brings A New View on Skype Competition
PC World Rapidly growing telco Gotalk has signed an exclusive agreement with US-based company Safeway to bring the Blackhawk gift card network to Australia. The Blackhawk network, a part of the popular US gift card “Store-on-a-Stand” kiosk, sells many different telco gift cards as a part of its service. Gotalk’s CEO Steve Picton hopes that [...]
Co-Founder of Skype Stills See Big Potential
Profy Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of the globally phenomenal VoIP institution, Skype, recently spoke at a conference in Budapest about the company’s substantial success in a supposed effort to quell unease about seemingly low financial returns recently released by the entity’s proprietor, eBay.Currently occupied with running the IPTV venture, Joost, Zennstrom highlighted Skype’s achievement of attaining [...]
Paypal & eBay Rank Highest on Phishing List
SC Magazine PayPal and eBay are easily the most common brands used in online scams, a PhishTank report reveals. The inaugural report – based on the end-user submission of almost 300,000 emails believed to be phishes – shows PayPal and its parent eBay served as the lure in 63,437 verified phishing emails. PayPal was spoofed [...]
BusinessWeek: 17-year-old Aaron Sacks got the inspiration for his business when his parents printed cards for his brother’s bar mitzvah party. He developed his idea for a customized card business during his National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship entrepreneurship class. Today his business, You’re on Deck, prints custom images such as a company’s logo or a [...]
Unusual Business Ideas That Work: San Francisco-based BedBusters is focusing on a specific element of household garbage: mattresses. For about USD $100, the company will haul away a two-piece full-sized mattress set. Extra charges apply if the haulers must climb more than 18 stair steps, and removing bigger mattresses costs more. Riding the eco wave, [...]
technabob: If you’re looking for a timepiece for your desktop, look no further than this hip modern clock from CB2. I really like the see-through LCD display and brushed metal frame which let it seamlessly blend into pretty much any environment. The display features a simulated analog clock face along with a digital readout for [...]
Entrepreneur: A closer look at marketing ideas that were good in theory but failed miserably. Despite the best-laid plans, history is littered with tales of businesses whose marketing stunts ran amok. To help you learn from other business’s mistakes–and avoid these PR nightmares–here’s the fourth installment in this week-long series of marketing stunts that flopped. [...]
Inc.: It’s easier than ever to find a service to help you produce or distribute videos. Some companies are production firms that make videos. Others provide technology for delivering video over the Web. Thanks to these services, anyone with a modest budget can use video to show off products, host online conferences, or take the [...]
BusinessWeek: When you need a brochure, you could find designers in the phone book, evaluate their portfolios, check references, pick one, and cross your fingers, hoping you made the right choice. Or you could crowdsource: Put the requirements of the task online, along with how much you’re willing to pay, and let anyone interested try [...]
