Archive for May 4th, 2006

From Start Up Journal
While leafing through the Yellow Pages last fall, entrepreneur Mark Bright saw an ad for a recently dissolved competitor listing an out-of-service phone number. On a hunch that readers would continue dialing the number for some time, he arranged for the line’s outstanding calls to be rerouted to his company. Since then, [...]

Yesterday I told you about Instant Buzz and their special membership drive.
I usually don’t pay too much attention to it… I let it run my ad, people come, and they buy or they don’t.
It’s free.
I’ll tweak it from time to time, but that’s about it.
I was checking some stats since yesterday.
I told you that I [...]

From my mailbox…
Seeking a WAH Job. I’m a 39 yr old disabled female seeking a business desperately.
Have clerical experience as well. Can you please help?
It’s taken me a few days to mull this one over.
Basically, people want tips about how to get a “call center work at home job”.
Fortunately she has clerical skills.
I think Bizymom’s [...]

From Bootstrapper Notes…
$100/Day Challenge - April 2006 Totals
For April 2006:
Sales: $4,591.70 (includes my products and other products where I am the affiliate)
Adsense: $168.39 (earnings from my list - no search traffic)
Affiliate Sales: $30.04 (outside of Clickbank)
Refunds: $382.96
Adwords: $2,115.63
Overture: $9.63
Total Profit: $2,281.91
ROI: 107.37%
Total Profit/Day: $76.06

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If you get the feeling you’re “road kill on the information superhighway” there might be a way to fight back if you look hard enough…
From the Entpreneurial Mind quoting Red Herring
In times of rapid change it is often small businesses that find ways to adapt. My partner used to say we were little mammals dancing [...]