BoingBoing: A specialty food store in Brisbane, Australia posted this sign, demanding a $5 deposit from people who enter the shop, refundable with your purchase. They are trying to curb ‘showrooming’ — when customers of online businesses use brick-and-mortar competitors as showrooms to check ou!t goods before they order them.” Though the BoingBoing article is […]
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How to Start a Teaching or Tutorial Website Looking to start a website, but constantly putting it off due to the fact that you have no clue where to start or what niche you would even want to get into? This is the case for a lot of different online business entrepreneurs out there,
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The following is a guest post by Kyle James. Online companies that have high fixed costs, especially when those fixed costs are associated with office equipment, inventory, warehousing, and high distribution costs have the hardest time making money. A company that fit into this category was WebVan, an online grocery delivery service that went bankrupt
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NY Times: To silence her stubborn hiccups during the summer of 2010, Mallory Kievman tried swallowing saltwater, making herself gag, eating a spoonful of sugar, sipping pickle juice and drinking a glass of water upside-down. Nearly two years and 100 attempted folk remedies later, the 13-year-old is preparing to lead a team of M.B.A. students
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If you’ve ever lived in a neighborhood that had an ice cream truck come through, then you already have a basic idea of what they look like. Basically they are big, bulky vans with a window in the side for handing out the treats you purchase. However one company is out to change your impression
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Chocolate has been a symbol for Valentines day for many years but many people don’t realize just how special this treat can be at any time of the year. Thanks in part to companies like Tasty Image more people are finding that customized chocolates, from custom lollipops to party platters, are just what they need
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The creator of ThisIsWhyImBroke.com did a AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit yesterday. If you’re wondering what it takes to build and run a site like that, click over and read the full user-generated interview. I’m assuming your revenue model is charging advertising fees from the companies that you list products for. Is that correct
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ThinkGeek has a long tradition of inventing and manufacturing amazing products across a whole host of categories: the ThinkGeek Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt, the Annoy-a-tron, Bag of Holding, and the iCADE just to name a few. Now, they’re opening up their proven product launching process to inventors just like you with the ThinkGeek IdeaFactory! How
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Businessweek: Religiosity has declined in the U.S. by 13 percent since 2005, according to a new poll (PDF). The Millennial generation, born between 1981 and 2000, is the least religious yet, with one in four identifying themselves as religiously unaffiliated, atheist, or agnostic in a 2010 PewResearchCenter survey. That works out to about 15 million
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A reader asked: How does a site like T3Leads work, and how can I use it to make money? T3Leads is a six year old lead generation and affiliate marketing company based in Encino, CA. In a nutshell, they pay people to generate leads for a variety of different markets, including payday loans, auto loans
