Archive for November, 2006

Do you need a virtual answering machine?
What about a toll free 800 number that follows you?
Or a toll free voice mail box that send the messages to your email box and automatically text messages your cell phone to let you know?
How about a toll free number that rings to your cell phone and allows you [...]

According to StartUpJournal.com, one Washington DC retaurant owner found themselves being trashed on the Washington Post website. Because major newspapers are increasing the amount of “citizen journalism” to boost online readership, this is more likely to happen for any business “serving the public”.
One restaurant started receiving a wave of bad comments suddenly.
Not only were the [...]

If you have radio sales experience in a major market, you may be able to make more money selling radio ads for Google Audio. They are taking advantage of excess ad inventory in the radio market as they are in the print newspaper market.
“Google is hiring salespeople in most major markets and they’re hiring sales [...]

So now that the election is over, what does it mean to entrepreneurs?
Good question, it looks like we’ll have Democrat control of the Senate and House of Representatives and a Republican President. In the background, apparently, 7 out of 8 of the “defense of marriage” state amendments passed as well. The Democrats I heard out [...]

PayPal plans to offer $20 rebates to customers as a marketing incentive.
The special promotion will take place between November 23, 2006 and March 15, 2007.
Over 30% of PayPal transactions occur during the holiday season.
This move - designed to give customers added incentives to use PayPal at participating merchant sites - is intended to counter attempts [...]

The National Federation of Independent Business (nfib.com) is organizing small businesses to meet lawmakers and tell their stories so that the politicians will not enact business unfriendly regulation.
To that end, they offer a free Grassroots Activism Manual
Don’t like the returns this election day and what they portend for your business?
Download this manual!

Why do politicians TAX us April 15th and beg for our vote in November?
So there’s time to forget!
Here a writer in the National Review suggests making our taxes due the same day we vote.
This isn’t a new idea, I first heard it promoted by Gary North but maybe this time it will catch on since [...]

TechCrunch reports that Jellyfish.com is reporting that Jellyfish.com is drawing traffic to their site by having a reverse auction. The company plans on holding the “Daily Smack” reverse auctions every Monday through Friday.
An unknown quantity of product is posted on the site at the regular price.
Every little while, the price drops.
Do you buy or hope [...]

Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk program pays people to work at a computer doing things that people do better than computers. One job involved taking images of storefronts and matching them up to businesses listed in a database.
The original “Mechanical Turk” as a sideshow machine that it’s inventor claimed could play chess against a live opponent. The [...]

Whether you’re buying to resell locally or on ebay itself or just something your heart desires on ebay, auction sniping has become the way to go to keep prices as low as possible on all your purchases.
Bidnapper.com is a web based sniper service that’s now offering a 15 day free trial so you can “try [...]