Archive for June 23rd, 2006

Web Auctions like Ebay are helping Middle Americans recover from the vagaries of today’s economy according to this article…
Al Losey, a corporate trainer at a Detroit auto parts maker, lost his job six weeks ago in what could be another down-and-out story from a hard luck corner of the American economy.
Instead, Losey, and his wife [...]

Chitika has been around for a while offering bloggers and other websites and alternative revenue stream. Because the “contextual” ads feature can be disabled, it does not violate Google Adsense’s terms of service evidently.
Chitika has always offered a variety of formats, but the recent upgrade allows multiple products to be displayed, not just one. Instead, customers get [...]

Did you know you could set up a free blog at ebay? The free blogs are a recent innovation. Jim Cockrum author of Creative Ebay Selling Newsletter suggest you create a NEW Ebay identity to test these blogs. Being new, nobody’s quite sure what exactly will be allowed.
Ebay is very protective about people trying to siphon [...]

David Frey’s observations on getting free publicity in National Magazines were great. 
Here are tips on just how to write the most effective op-ed pieces. 
Some Tips On Creating a Powerful Op-Ed
Here are a few tips to help you generate op-ed’s that can get you results.
Tip # 1 – Submit op-eds to publications in your target market
There’s no use [...]

Small businesses should realize that there’s an opportunity here it seems to promote yourself for free if you can get listings in Froogle or provide the comments about your business.
Home businesses may want to align with popular “brick and mortar” businesses so that your products or services are sold through them for a referral fee or commission and [...]