Archive for February 16th, 2007

  • Drive Internet Shoppers To Your Local Store

    Yokel lets you target local buyers… even through mobile phone searches. There’s a $49 annual account fee, but after that you only pay when customers view your listings.
    The price per click is only 25 cents (subject to change I guess) and you can set a maximum monthly budget. So this could be affordable for even [...]

  • Fastest Growing Companies Value Social Media

    We “know” (or at least have heard) that “word of mouth advertising is the best”.
    So how do we generate word of mouth advertising?
    The Fastest Growing Companies actually do something about it. Here’s what they’re doing.
    If you’re trying to make money online… do you do any of these activities?
    From WOM Research
    Social media is elbowing its way [...]

  • Ebay Universities Coming To A City Near You

    For just $59 people can take a class sponsored and approved by Ebay on how to access and set up shop on the popular auction site. Here’s the announcement for Nashville, TN in the Tennesseean

    Classes will be offered through eBay University at the Nashville Convention Center tomorrow to teach the basics of selling on the [...]

  • Blogger for Small Business

    I think I’m going to write an ebook for small businesses… something inexpensive… on how to use blogger for a small business. Yesterday I was telling you about my recent exploits putting up a non profit website using blogger.com.
    I’ve been tweaking it and I think it could be a great platform for a retail business [...]

  • Retailers Take A Tip From MySpace

    If you can get “real people” to endorse your product - enthusiastic fans not “celebrity endorsers”… that can boost sales. Ask yourself this… how much stock do you put in the Amazon.com reviews if you don’t have a previous opinion about the product?
    From Business Week
    Retailers are taking a page from MySpace. They know that customers, [...]