Archive for September 2nd, 2008

  • A Community of Businesses

    John at Duct Tape Marketing has a very thought provoking post on how a wildly successful Deli expanded their business and profits in an unusual way: a “community business model”. The company is Zingerman’s Community of Businesses Instead of producing “Cookie cutter” imitations of their deli in every city – the traditional franchising model, they [...]

  • eBay LOOPHOLE makes money! Auction Acrobat

    For a while, one of the hottest tricks on ebay was to build a customer mailing list by selling 99cent ebooks. Needless to say, lots of junk was being peddled on ebay. As ebay decided to clean up the shopping environment and make real money themselves, they made a simple change – no selling any [...]

  • Gustav Update

    From the news, you’d think NOTHING happened in Louisiana this weekend. Just because New Orleans didn’t get destroyed and FEMA couldn’t be blamed for something and the US Army Corps of Engineers emergency response went flawlessly people are basically being lead to believe that little of consequence happened. Here’s a report I just received that’s [...]

  • Will Tweet For Shoes

    Christinelu is the founder of the China Business Network. She’s the one with the $500+ twittad listing! Turns out she’ll be happy to trade her twitter profile for a pair of shoes. I love it! Barter. But what about Twittad’s override?

  • Have Twitter Following – Make Money TwittAd.com

    If you’ve got an online following via Twitter, you can now make money with TwittAd! This is what one of their ads looks like when uploaded on your profile. Here’s how they explain it. I’m still wrapping my head around it to be honest. I basically follow people by feeds not by the profile page. [...]