Archive for October, 2006

Checking into Free Business Cards? Here’s a website that might help you set your business card “apart from the pack”…something that works for more than just entering your name for a free lunch at the local restaurants.It’s about – well – Free Business Cards! You can check out these free business cards when you have [...]

Wal Mart started it’s sale of certain generic drugs for $4 in Tampa, FL last month and then rolled it out across the state in the next few weeks.
The giant retailer is extending the plan to 14 more states soon and hopes to be offering the discounted prices nationwide by January 1, 2007.
The special pricing affects about [...]

MySpace is going corporate and political.
The social networking site is increasingly becoming a hang out for profiles of big corporations and political parties.
Here’s how Apple is using MySpace to promote the Blue Nano, Green Nano, and Pink Nano.
Though Apple markets world wide, even small home based businesses can easily target demographic groups and locales using [...]

“Emma” is a Customer Relationship Management via Email with a twist. Unlike other email “autoresponder” or “relationship management” systems that are permission based, Emma seeks to start things off for their business clients on the right foot by
1. Letting you work with real life humans instead of robotic barriers to conversation
2. Branding your business emails [...]

LonelyGirl15 wasn’t so lonely. With hundreds of thousands of hits on MySpace and YouTube, she at least had a lot of online visitors.
But was she the poor, abused, teenage ragamuffin she portrayed?
Not hardly.
She’s not 15, she’s not home schooled, and she’s not about to be offered up like a sacrificial lamb in some cultic ritual.
It [...]

New York Times best selling authors Donald Trump and Robert “Rich Dad” Kiyosaki have teamed up to lend their names to a new book called Why We Want You To Be Rich - Two Men, One Message and they’ve already managed to peeve Wall Street.
The average salary on Wall Street is $300,000 so they’re not [...]

The Web has spawned or encouraged many businesses… perhaps one of the most unique one is the Genealogy business.
As people seek to be connected to their roots, they’re looking on line for information to help them connect to their past.
At present the main barrier to entry is a passion for the work. Except when digging [...]

I received an email today that the home based entrepreneur I helped fund in Cambodia has received her loan through Kiva. Kiva allows me to participate in microlending around the world in $25 increments using PayPal or a Credit Card. These entrepreneurs are helped by the intermediary agency that’s “on the ground” and administering the [...]

As time allows, I’ve been reading this book, Success Built To Last. Based on interviews with many successful people who are successful in different ways (Richard Branson to Mother Theresa to Nelson Mandela or Bono for example) it tries to distill the essence of success. Hopefully you’ll find a profile you like but overall the [...]

I’ve been blogging about making money on Myspace on this blog (check related links) and here. I’ve suggested a number of places to get free MySpace layouts, etc. I even talked about a tool to automate finding “MySpace” friends for marketing.
Finally someone has taken the very tool I mentioned for automatically adding friends on MySpace [...]