Archive for October, 2006

The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network:

Choosing the Right Business Name
Internet Marketing Quiz - Test Your Knowledge
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Niche Biz: Selling Office Noise
How to Spot a Fraudulent eBay Seller
Top Resons for Companies to Sell [...]

Marketing Pro C.J. Hayden’s new edition of Get Clients Now is available. This edition is completely revised including extensive discussions of using the Internet to market. Here’s an excerpt…
One of the biggest challenges in marketing is getting people to respond to unsolicited calls and emails. When prospects enter your marketing pipeline as the result of [...]

Most “work at home” business ideas are automatically considered “beneath” the educational system to teach.
Increasingly though, county schools, community colleges, and other places who once considered themselves too “refined” to discuss such lowly things as home business are offering at least non credit classes that focus on using ebay platform.
Here’s another one in KY:
Diane Sullivan [...]

Over on the SowPub forum someone asked for a list of good Classified Sites on the ‘Net.
We have our own classified site here, but here are some other options.
(I also suggest you might want to try a Squidoo Lens and MySpace PAGE)
Michael Mayhew offered this list.
Here are the largest sites online to place free classified [...]

There’s lots of buzz about a new breed of virtual businesses which I posted on yesterday, you’d think that Americans were all computer geniuses poised evolve beyond the need to sweat.
Sadly, that’s far from the case.
Instead it looks like instead of turning out High School Graduates with the former designations of “cum laude”, “summa cul [...]

Blogger Pamela Slim of Escape From Cubicle Nation is quoted at length in the Boston Globe!
Why? She opines that with the advent of the “virtual company” there may be fewer brick and mortar businesses to “telecommute” to.
Pamela Slim, who blogs at Escape From Cubicle Nation, says a perfect storm of factors is converging to make [...]

Looking for low cost marketing ideas you can apply to a small or home business?
According to Start Up Journal here’s what CiCi’s Franchisee Randi Papporello of Des Moines, IA does to keep people marching through her doors.
1. Newspaper inserts (coupons & specials - $2,300)
2. Ads on Hispanic radio stations ($300 per month = 50 spots [...]

If job growth is an indicator of the overall business climate in general, then here are some of the best and worst places to be in business. The more businesses in general, then the more likely there will be customers for service related home businesses and telecommuters.
Florida has the fastest job growth overall with the [...]

Evidently the “solution” offered by some is part of the problem according to Google.
From The Silicon Valley Business Journal
In the face of estimates that anywhere between 14 percent and 35 percent of the click-throughs Google was charging advertisers for weren’t real Web site visitors, advertisers are looking for independent verification.
But Google claims the third party [...]

According to Reuters, an increasing number of U.S. students are “acing” their classes because the Internet suddenly allows even “middle class” students afford highly specialized tutors.
Though U.S. tutors charge $25 to $100 per hour, well beyond the reach of many families (especially for multiple topics), some families are no able to contract with Indian science, engineering, [...]