Archive for September, 2009

Is your business successfully using Facebook? Depending on your audience Facebook may not be as helpful as you’d wish – certainly no “magic bullet”. But if you’re marketing nationwide or in a large metropolitan area with lots of potential traffic from facebook users, you’d do well to study and emulate what these successful companies are [...]

While my wife was typing today through a bout of some bug, she remarked “The problem with self employment is that you have no paid sick days and no paid time off! You have to work if you’re sick.” Yes, that’s certainly true. I have been suffering the same bug except yesterday a fever developed. [...]

The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal is reporting this headline: Skype sold in deal valuing it at $2.75B It caught my eye because I just resubscribed to their service… it does make it easier to communicate. Ebay’s President and CEO had this to say: Skype is a strong standalone business, but it does not have [...]

Are you trying to make a living by running an online shop? Shopwiki may help you level the playing field as a shop keeper. How’s that again? ShopWiki actively seeks out all sorts of online stores, logs their listings by category and lets people search by category. The online shop with the right information for [...]

Horatio Alger was known for his “rags to riches” pulp stories. We love to hear about someone going from nothing to something. Well, here’s one of those stories for the internet age: Jobless and homeless, blogger scores Elle job. It’s a great story about determination and working the angles… free parking for recreational vehicles at [...]