Archive for February, 2006

The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network this week:

Best and Worst of Making Money Online: Part 1
Selling for Others on eBay
Brazil: Carnival in Your Living Room
Links for 2006-02-15
First Lenovo-Branded Products Debut Worldwide
Self Employed Tax Write Offs
Los Inicios [...]

From Bizzymoms.com
First of all, what is a virtual assistant (VA)? I like to explain it as a word processor gone wild. A VA is someone who works with clients, providing them with top quality support services without having to be physically present at a clients office. VA services are becoming more and more popular thanks [...]

From StartUpNation

1. There’s no “women’s market” only your women’s
2. “Brand Lite” isn’t always a good strategy…
3. Communicate product value, not features
4. Understand that she’s always watching
5. Respect her
6. Embrace high standards
7. Be willing to commit

Millionaire Blueprints in one of my favorite magazines.
The current issue carries these features…
If You Build It, They Will Come
Against the advice of his banker, attorney and accountant, sports car enthusiast Jack Farr built the nation’s first country club for sports car racing. Relentless determination and Farr’s “If you build it, they will come� philosophy led [...]

I don’t know about you, but since the dawn of the cell phone age, I don’t see as many pay phones.
Nevertheless, this man recruited a network of life insurance agents to sell his lease schemes.
Life insurance agents who sell annuities usually know older conservative investors who have money to invest parked in CD’s.
They get sick [...]

What you need, Jon Richards says, is a PURPOSE.
From Noteworthyusa.com
Marshall Field, one of the richest men in Chicago, had been asked in a newspaper interview: “What did he hope to accomplish in life?” His reply: “One of the secrets of not having a nervous breakdown is not having goals. But I suppose I would like [...]

Updated 01/06/2007
Some feminists want the “maternal instinct” to be “extinct” evidently. What started out as a demand for “choices for women” has become the demonization of those who don’t make the “right” (read “politically correct”) choices of a few women who feel they have the right to tell everyone else (men and women) what’s [...]

The easiest tool to create ebooks are PDF generators. Clicklocker now protects these products from theft by allowing you to imbed the codes needed to deactivate pirated copies
We’ve just released the ClickLocker version 2.2. In this release we’ve added a brand
new PDF Locker which makes your locked PDF files even more secure.
If you ever [...]

By John Jantsch of DuctTapeMarketing.com
Tired of chasing down leads that don’t really want what you have to sell? Use a 2-step advertising approach and your leads will practically beg to do business with you.
Cold calling doesn’t work, it’s no fun and often you end up with leads, or worse yet, clients, that don’t really [...]

Doing some marketing research?
For example, would you like to know how many homes sell on average in a given month in your zip code?
By checking here… https://www.melissadata.com/lists/ezlists/ezHomeowners.aspx?zip=19128 I can see that in NW Philadelphia (Roxborough/Manayunk) I can see monthly sales back to August, 2001 and the average sale price per home.
This search tool and dozens [...]