Archive for April 7th, 2006

  • Podcast: Low-cost promotional tactics for your business

    From Start Up Nation…
    The Sloan brothers talk about creating awareness for your small business products and services, so you can get customers to buy them! Hear about their favorite three tactics for promoting your business if you don’t have advertising dollars to spend.

  • Norway Seeks To Break Addiction To Microsoft

    According to Newsmax.com Norway has decided to do something’s about Microsoft’s death grip on the computer market by raising compatibility standards between operating systems and using more open source software.
    In other words, they’re tired of paying huge fees to Bill Gates every year too…
    The Norwegian government said Friday it will increase its use of freely […]

  • Review of Satellite Broadband for Home Business

    Now that you know my home business quandry today, here’s a review of one satellite broadband provider.
    From Connected Home Magazine
    Using the satellite connection required me to change my Internet habits. First, the IP traffic latencies are very high (averaging well over 500 milliseconds—ms), making online gaming impossible. The DirecPC software also caches much of your […]

  • Sound Off: Are you having problems finding high speed internet access for your home business?

    For about a year, my wife moved out of her beloved home office to an office in town to help out a friend and -we thought - expand some of our own business interets.
    It hasn’t worked out that way, so she’s considering a move back to home.
    There’s just one hitch. In town, there are […]

  • Ebay Vs. The Real World

    From Phil Dunn
    Selling on eBay is a lot like selling in the physical world, except you’re confined to this little browser window. It doesn’t have depth like a real window display. Your salesperson can’t emote with her arms or kick the tires to show the customer durability. The right marketing and presentation approach, however, can […]