Archive for November, 2005

From Aidan’s Blog via Dane Carlson:
My Parents are what I consider to be quiet normal, by normal I would agree with the quote
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you [...]

Do you have a product or service that you can sell nationally?
If so, here’s a source of Free “Door Prize Coupons” to give away and your networking group, chamber of commerce mixer, seminar, etc.
It’s available through Lamar Morgan’s Door Prize Coupon Exchange Network
You exchange your coupon and get one in return to give away as [...]

Whether you’re publishing for content and hoping to increase pay per click revenue, creating websites you hope the search engines will give prefer, or running pay per click campaigns to generate traffic, your profitability depends on finding just the right keyword…
No single tool t0 date seems to “do it all” …
In order to find [...]

Some wineries, it seems, are just another variety of “home business” struggling to increase their profits.
Perhaps you need to regain control over your product or service to increast profits?
Do you need to learn how to go directly to the consumer of your product or service instead of depending on a middle man to help you [...]

Lance Mock reminded me how “aged” I am when he sent this letter to his email list yesterday promoting this weblog.
Thanks Lance… and tell your wife she is probably the only person in the whole world who still remembers those days!
What sent my wife DIVING into a stack of books?
I know you’ve been online [...]

“Big Box” stores like Wal Mart and the big retailers aren’t the only ones who’ll be selling gift cards this Christmas.
CNN/Money reports …
For truckers who haul Santa’s loot to stores all over the country, what better way to express your gratitude than with a 7-Eleven gift card, for an 18-pack of Bud Light, or [...]

Glenn Osborn, a Baltimore, MD, entrepreneur uses this criteria:
I belong to a Baltimore Networking group. NRG. Networkreferralgroup.com - it’s actually grown to 6 states. I like it more than BNI and ALL the other groups I’ve visited because…
A - You’re in and out with a fistfull of referrals in 60 minutes
B - The Group [...]

From the Los Almos Monitor:
Increasingly the biggest obstacle to having a home business is… your neighbors.
Here’s another example…
Citing declining property values and an increase in industrial establishments in their area, the Pajarito Homeowners Association is appealing a decision made last week by the Planning and Zoning Commission which granted a special use permit for a [...]

From StartUpJournal.com…
Ebay Inc. founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pamela, have given $100 million in eBay stock to Tufts University in suburban Boston to create a fund that will invest in microfinance, the practice of loaning small sums to people who are too poor to qualify for traditional lending. The university says it will be [...]

Glenn Osburn via the David Frey forum…
A friend in Los Angeles bought a Jiffy Print store.
To PUMP up sales
from the Businesses
in the surrounding
Hi-Rise Office buildings.
He looked for business owners ALREADY selling to the businesses HE wanted to sell printing to.
He found a Pizza Store owner.
The guy was delivering Pizza to 100’s and 100’s of the [...]