Archive for October 12th, 2006

Do you need help keeping track of your inventory pricing on Amazon? Or finding great deals for items on your wishlist? Hoping the price will go down? Or Up? (If you’re selling) Here’s help. RSS feeds for Amazon.com products promise to be an amazing “Marketing Intelligence” tool for people selling books and other items on [...]

From Start Up Nation 1. Ask more questions. 2. Realize that innovation involves eliminating customer sacrifice. 3. Here’s an example from the article: For example, let’s look at health care in America. The number one customer sacrifice is waiting — waiting to get appointments, waiting in the lobby. Along comes a company called The Minute [...]

Helping people connect to the Internet is one of the things I like to track because it’s essential for business nowadays and many people are having to limp along with no access or just dial up. So I was interested to see this new attempt to keep people connected. We’re seeing this frequently in restaurants, [...]

This isn’t about home business per se, but some of the mompreneurs I know from this blog should find this event worth checking out.It’s the Women’s Marketing Telesummit and it will focus on low cost marketing methods to boost revenues. Given the relatively low cost of approximately $140US for events over three days, it seems [...]

The International Herald Tribune ran a column on how would be telecommuters can arrange with their boss to work from home. Here’s some of the more salient points… 1. Know if working from home is a good fit for both YOU and the type of work you do. If you’re a surgeon needing an operating room, working [...]

It’s easy to sell yourself short and think you don’t have a sellable skill. But if you know your way around ebay, can write a key word rich description of products that attacts buyers, you probably know more than you think and tap into a growing trend. It’s possible that by honing your skills a [...]