Archive for March, 2006

Jim Straw of BusinessLyceum.com has a great monthly ezine that focuses on the basics of business, not the latest gimmickry.
In responding to our marketing challenge today, here’s what he’d have to say for the home business person marketing our sample product…
Chuck:
If I were doing it …
I would create a flyer with the heading … “A […]

James Jones, well known author of great ebooks on ebay niches (among many) replied to our marketing challenge already about how to market this product designed for working class Americans without going broke yourself.
Here’s James’ reply… Thanks James!
One: I would create an expose style ebook that contains various “leaked documentsâ€? (memos, emails, faxes) from […]

OK, super marketer… I’m going to ask this question here… on a forum and to some friends.
If I get answers elsewhere, I’ll post them here.
If you have an idea, please post a comment here!
Let’s see how ingenious you all are?!!!
By the way, this is real product how would you promote it?
Here’s a real life product.
How […]

From Tim and Marc via Dane

It’s good to be king
Losing sucks
Building to flip is building to flop
Prudence becomes procrastination
Momentum builds on itself
Jump when you are more excited than afraid
Pay attention to the idea that won’t leave you alone
[…]

Online Shopping Cart abandonment means your transaction wasn’t alluring enough to get people to spend their money.
Solution?
Don’t leave them empty handed…
From Inc
It’s a common problem for any small business owner with an e-commerce enabled website. Clients and prospects abandoning their orders before check out.
Forget the wasted money in driving the prospect to the site–forget the […]

BizJournals came out with a great article about the Top 10 High Paying Occupations in the Private Sector
Most were the “usual suspects”… Doctors and Lawyers but with some additional twists such as several university teaching fields.
The one with the fewest barriers to entry is sales in the financial sector.
It’s not “home based” but some […]

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

EMail Segmentation Generates Higher Income
U.S. Government investigating Army rations on eBay
Two Women Top UK Fastsigns Sales
Your MLM Responsibilities
Free Business Plan Templates & Financial Plan Models
Make Money In 30 Days Starting With Nothing
20 Tips […]

USA Today notes the following trends…
The use of independent contractors to handle customer service calls from their homes is soaring as companies look to cut costs — and more employees seek jobs that allow them to work remotely.
The number of home-based agents will nearly triple over the next few years, says research group IDC, as […]

Blogger’s attempt to shut down spam blogs as reported earlier here is taking it toll on LEGITIMATE blogs that attempt to keep posts KEYWORD FOCUSED for maximum Adsense Revenue and Search Engine Optimization!
Legitimate bloggers may seek to optimize the content of their posts to move up the search engines. That’s GOOD for Google because if […]

From ipod garage
Mary Ann Butt, a woman from Newfoundland, recently became upset when the box she received from her eBay purchase did not in fact include an iPod. PayPal was able to get all but $20 of her money back, and the seller’s name was not made public. The seller reportedly tried to say that […]