Archive for April, 2007

Need a simple solution for keeping your keyboard clean when working at home? Here’s one from Enterprise Nation: use tape!
Slide a 2 1/2-inch strip between the rows of your keyboard. The adhesive side removes dust and crumbs.

They started a home based business thanks to the free advertising at Craigslist… until they got busted. It should go without saying that these types of ads for illegal services go against Craigslist’s terms of service, but nothing much really goes without saying anymore.
From NBC News
Kimberly Petersen, 17, was arrested after detectives doing a routine [...]

The Minnesota Inventor’s Congress has been around almost 50 years… starting in 1958.
It started to help link inventors, manufacturers, marketers, and the general public. Like many smaller towns, they experienced the “brain drain” of their young people so they hoped it would encourage some to stay near home.
Has it helped? In 1964 one inventor came [...]

All I can say is that they must have been reading this blog. A while back Dane posted (and I reposted) this case study of a unique barber shop.
Now, voila, a start up very much like it hits the business headlines.
MR. — which opened last month in San Francisco’s Financial District — is an [...]

United Parcel Service is a master at automation and efficiency.  They have to be with all the packages they have to deliver and all the vehicles they have to operate. Small inefficiencies throughout their world wides system could sink them quickly.
Especially now that gas prices are so high… it’s nice to be able to deduct [...]

CallWave has been around for years… When most people had just “dial up”, CallWave was around to anwser the phone while we had it tied up surfing the net. It would take our message and let us know if the call were urgent or not.
Now they’re introducing a great new service: fax to your email!
For [...]

The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that a program set up by Ebay to auction advertising has prompted an unhappy response from cable TV systems who don’t like what’s going on. 
Now that Google’s auctioning off Satellite TV ad space, this is likely what they’re up against when they try to get into cable TV ads [...]

Updated 4/7 - Last night a federal appeals court granted a temporary order allowing Vonage to continue signing up new customers until the case could be heard or otherwise resolved. 
Friday April 6th 11:17 AM ET Yahoo News reports that a Judge has barred Vonage from signing up any more new customers as punishment for patent infringement.
A [...]

I’ve been doing my year end taxes and that means the painful realization that some of my ad campaigns truly stank and produced few or no results. I had even forgotten about one campaign. I saw some leads coming in but I honestly had forgotten I was paying for them! Duh, now that’s stupid!  I admit it. Oh [...]

In the age of online marketing, we think getting to profitability and having a good business is a matter of buying cheap clicks and building an email list. Maybe.
But maybe not judging by the people on email lists who never buy a thing because they just want free stuff.
Here’s how one CPA firm prospered by [...]