Archive for 2006

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

From MediaChannel.org KRON San Francisco hopes that by cutting out editors and giving everybody a digital video recorder, their news broadcasts will resemble “reality TV” and help them regain their Neilsen ratings. Though one benefit to the reporters under this arrangement is that they’re allowed to work from home, that benefit doesn’t seem to mollify [...]

From the Boston Herald Did you know women with infants are one of the fastest-growing segments in the U.S. workforce? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 31 percent of mothers with children under a year old worked in 1976; this number grew to 55 percent in 2002. Responding to the need for family-friendly employment, New [...]