Archive for April, 2006

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 [...]

From Startups.co.uk
Valentine and Akker met twice a week to meticulously comb through potential business ideas, seeking out the ideal opportunity. They eventually stumbled across an American business called Zipcar, which operates in New York, Boston and Washington.
The business partners realised that there was no UK equivalent to the company and set about creating Streetcar, [...]

From Startups.co.uk…
Five creative industries graduates from the North East have been awarded funding to help them launch their own businesses through a programme designed to develop the country’s burgeoning creative economy.
Through its Insight Out programme, which aims to harness talented graduates of creative curricula, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) has [...]

My friend Tom Schreiter is going to hold his Power Marketing And Promotions Workshop … I can’ t recommend it highly enough.
I went to Tom’s Power Marketing workshops in the mid 90’s.
I can’t tell you how much they expanded my thinking about marketing.
By the end of the first session, I was so amazed by the [...]

Note: If you’re a keyword junkie looking for the next microniche for adsense revenue, you won’t like this book.
However, if you’re a professional person seeking to sell your expertise over the internet and you want to use free publicity on the internet, this is an excellent resource.
From Marcia Yudkin
Huge businesses spend millions of dollars planning [...]

In direct mail, a “good test” was a mailing to 5,000 to 10,000… not a 10 million.
Then when one list was profitable, it was assumed that similiar lists … of 10,000 to 20,000 in niche segments… would be equally profitable.
Taking direct mail statistics and assuming an email list is just as profitable may be a [...]

Since I told you last week about the exchange student who learned how to program used US cell phones for resale overseas from his home at night, I’ve been on the look out for similar opportunities.
This doesn’t involve working at home, but it may give somebody contacts that create a lucrative business later…
This is a [...]

There are numerous conclusions that one can draw from a careful examination of business volume, when looking at direct selling companies. This article will focus on two—the distinction between a single level and a multilevel direct selling company and a test for legal versus pyramid for a multilevel direct selling company.
A simple definition first: Remember [...]

This is from Terrance’s ezine:
This lady sells sewing patterns for unique items.
Item: Sewing Patterns By Email
Meet: Ebay Id Parksbird
From: Lewisville, North Carolina
She sells how to sewing patterns by email and boy does she sell alot of them…….
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11468&item=6864914543
This ONE auction is selling for $8.88 and he has sold 20 copies so far ( in the [...]

From Joan Isabella, a work at home radio consultant at StartUpNation.com
Could starting a business running errands be the best home-based business idea?
In 1988, I was sent to the Republican Convention in Atlanta as a producer for CBS Radio. Aside from the politics, it was our job to create radio features that would give listeners a [...]