Archive for 2006

From Dane
Bill Gate’s first business was a failure…
In 1971, a company called Logic Simulation was inventorying the streets in Kent, Wash. They placed traffic counting boxes, which had a hose going from the box across the street, on some streets. Each time a car crossed the hose, the box increased its count. The results were [...]

Can you make money GIVING free take out menus to restaurants in your area?
Yes… if you know what you’re doing.
Don Alm shares his expertise in the matter…
Yup…”Take-Out Menu Advertising” is a GOOD, FAST, Money-Maker….contrary to other’s opinions.
Many, many times…I’ve started on a Monday and by the end of the day I have $750 in [...]

Net marketing is big, but if distributing even cheaper computers allows more people to access the internet, online marketing could get a proportional boost.
Here’s what the Guardian has to say…
They built a $123bn business around online text search then diversified into video, email and, more controversially, book publishing. Now Google founders Larry Page and Sergey [...]

From Chicago Sun Times….
When John Fox found out Wendy’s was selling drinks in cups with coupons good for free airfare, he did what made sense at the time: He started rummaging through Dumpsters all around the city to collect discarded cups.
Two months and approximately 8,000 cups later, the 29-year-old Ukrainian Village resident is $2,000 [...]

This is from Glenn Osburn’s marketing newsletter. You can sign up for it at www.woozinator.com
LOTTO Ticket Testimonial:
I did use the tipping technique for the first time, with a very cool result.
I need to check my mail (at my local mail center) and pay for another half a year.
I picked up some Lottery Tickets…. the one’s [...]

From Startup Journal…
We asked Tim Faley, the managing director of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor, for books and Web sites he’d suggest to would-be entrepreneurs.
Some of his suggestions…

1. Crossing the Chasm:
It’s critically important that entrepreneurs know [...]

Mp3’s are on the rise. Even big players can’t ignore the potential. XM satellite radio doesn’t want to make their customers choose between satellite radio and their mp3’s.
Got Mp3’s for your customers?
From BizJournals…
XM Satellite Radio’s latest bid to lure listeners is a handheld receiver that includes an MP3 player.
The device, called XM2go, isn’t [...]

Westlaw.com allows you to have a free 14 day trial.
Though search ability is limited, it may be interesting to see what you can find if you’re researching a potential business partner or want to find out about a potential prospect, partner or contractor.

While most work at home businesses are solo or family businesses, I used to run a wah business with a single non-family employee.
So perhaps this IRS update relates to you this year:
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today issued temporary and proposed regulations that will significantly reduce tax filing burden for nearly 950,000 small business [...]

From China Daily
Work begins each day with a click of a mouse for 25-year-old graduate Jing Jing, an assumed name.
Her world is filled with the sort of buzzwords that send technophobes round the bend - like e-commerce, C2C (customer-to-customer) retail and SOHO - Small-Office / Home-Office.
Instead of getting a so-called proper job when [...]