Archive for 2007

Want to share your Business Related New Year’s Resolutions here? Do you want to make more money? Do you want to eliminate some marginal money makers? Do you want to cut your costs while maintaining your revenues? Need some inspiration for getting started? Here are Alfa Mercado’s Home Business goals for 2007 1. Be able [...]

Is Ebay really going to set auction fees by holding an auction so that only the highest bidders can auction stuff?Well, it’s not that bad yet, but they are raising auction fees yet again. This was revealed in an announcement from Bill Cobb the President of Ebay North America (photo). For items selling from $1.00 [...]

Lessons from the Lemonade Stand: 101 Common Sense Management Tips Need a quick refresher on what makes business people successful whether it’s Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, or Bill Gates? In the day to day hassles of trying to get ahead, it’s necessary to remind ourselves of the Big Picture, so perhaps these reminders will help. [...]

Bookselling Pro Steve Weber tells how to identify problem customers right off the bat and cut down on fraudulent refund requests. The first bit is really about psychology. The person who orders a book by media mail and then complains when it’s not there “overnight” isn’t all there. If the first thing out of them [...]

MLMers markeing Omega-3 fish oil will see their product become all the rage in 2007. And this could both help and hurt sales. MLM’s sell high quality speciality products that can cost about $35 per month less autoship discounts but plus shipping. 2007 is shaping up to be the “Year of the Omega-3″ with versions [...]

Before Ma Huang became illegal, then legal, now who-knows-what it was a staple of the MLM diet pill industry. No self-respecting “nutritional” MLM company ever dared try to make it big and attract a huge following without the ubiquitous “diet pill” with a few proprietary ingredients to make “our weight loss pill” better than “their [...]

If you’re planning to incorporate your work at home busienss this year it’s important to understand the incorporation laws and how that affects incorporation for your particular state. Here’s an example of incorporation procedures for Arizona. There can be tax advantages to incorporation but there may be a few extra hurdles you weren’t aware of… [...]

Did you know there were dangers to article syndication using venues like EzineArticles.com? Yes! Steve Weber makes a good point in this blog post about the dangers of duplicate content. Now, it IS GOOD to use these sites to get links back to your main website. Syndicating articles can create good traffic streams for your [...]

A $100 Laptop? Yes – coming soon to a child to an underdeveloped nation soon! You can see a picture of one of those “$100 laptops” but don’t expect to buy one. The International Organization “One Laptop Per Child” DOES plan to get the price down to $100 or so through mass production, but they [...]

I must be a workaholic because it’s New Year’s Day and I’m planning to have a Conference Call! I guess one New Year’s Resolution might be to get a life! I did at least beat my son at air hockey today… it’s pretty bad when that wears you out. Getting in better shape might be [...]