Archive for November, 2005

Though Google denies that this change is anything more than a patent filing and test, eBay and craigslist… not to mention every newspaper in the country may be competing with the GoogleMonster for classified ad business next!
From the Mercury News
RECENT PATENT APPLICATION ANOTHER INDICATION
New evidence that Google intends to leap into the lucrative and competitive [...]

As New Orleans tries to rebuild, companies can find no workers.
Burger King is offering $6,000 hiring bonuses in New Orleans.
This has nothing to do with home business, but I just couldn’t resist!
From the International Herald Tribune
Burger King is offering a $6,000 signing bonus at its New Orleans outlets. Rally’s, a local restaurant chain, has nearly [...]

Peter Drucker, management “guru” dead at 95.
Peter Drucker, the most influential management writer of the modern era, has died age 95. A spokesman for the Claremont Graduate University in California, where Prof Drucker worked since the 1971, said he died peacefully on Friday morning after a short illness.
Prof Drucker remained active until the end of [...]

It sounds like they’re planning to deploy this specifically to escape intellectual property laws and rip off authors world wide.
The technology is amazing though that a machine can “publish on demand” a single book.
3 Billion Books
3BillionBooks, Inc. (3BB), is planning to become the first company to globally deploy a low cost (under $100,000), totally [...]

Erik never knew if his home business idea would generate just a little bit of extra cash … or hit the big time!
From Startups.co.uk
For most budding entrepreneurs, the ingredients of success are things such as cash flow, market position and effective staff. For husband and wife team Eric and Jeanette Watkins, it’s vital that [...]

Adsense Mint is an excellent free ebook from Mr. James Fraser of Scotland.
It is the best free guide to Google’s Adsense program that I’ve seen in a long time.
In fact while the material isn’t new to me, I originally PAID FOR IT… gladly too.
SO aspiring internet marketers will be happy to read this and boost [...]

How should you get started as an online marketer?
Jim Straw of BusinessLyceum.com offers this suggested break down…
Using just a mini-site, or a free site, I would spend less than 5% of my time maintaining my web site … 20% of my time “marketing�? … 5% of my time finding new products to sell … 5% [...]

Frank Ross via the Business-Opportunities.biz blog…
ran across this story in the news from Holland Michigan. 11 year old entrepreneur, Clif Reed, was repairing bicycles and reselling them from his yard. But that drew the ire of the neighborhood and alas.. the long arm of the city law is stepping in. They aren’t forcing him [...]

John Reed’s advice to wannabe authors is worth reading… if only for the entertainment value.
It’s counterintuitive to most of what you “think you know” about publishing that’s why I predict you’ll like it.
From John Reed

*Writing talent (or at least the sheer nerve to think you have it - Chuck!)
*Know the subject
*Self-publish - The [...]

An SEO Optimized press release is like any other “optmized” web page…
The page title, headline, keywords, and content all jibe and the main key word - in this case “Avian Flu” is spread with consistency throughout the copy.
In addition, additional fees were paid to place the press release on some major distribution lists so they’d [...]