It just goes to show that selling automobiles is ONLINE, even for places that you wouldn’t previously have considered! I’ve even been given a free coupon to provide for the readers of this blog, so keep reading.

Here’s their problem – and a way for you to sell cars online with greater profits! Basically because they don’t know the programming side, they are at the mercy of website hosting companies to promote their offerings.

Finally today, I learned about a resource that would let anyone wanting to sell cars online have an “unfair advantage” to market cars online at a very reasonable price. 3DBin.com lets you sell cars online by showing them in 360 view (see the sample below)!

Using simple “embed” code, you could be showing your vehicles online in 360 view and give people a great view of what they’re buying… no hidden sides out of view with unsightly scratches or other forms of fraud that might happen without the 360 view. These embed codes could easily be put on a “dealer” site or on other high traffic sites that are ideal for finding buyers like ebay.

Here’s another plus for people selling cars online using this service. In my experience, sites like 3DBin.com soon develop their own profound authority with search engines like Google. This means that with the right keywords, internet searchers could be arriving directly at this site. Hopefully they’ll allow dealers to create their own “channels” too.

Just click it and drag the image. This is COOL! What a sales tool!

But another great tool with this service is that the individual URL’s for each car being sold can be promoted instantly through a variety of social media outlets like Twitter, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Delicious, and all the media available on “Add this”. This repays the person selling cars online for building an extensive social network to transmit these URL’s through! And the more backlinks to the main site, the better all people selling on this network will do!

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Note: Thanks to 3DBin.com for sponsoring this post!

When most of us think “Small Business” we think of a family business hiring a few employees – perhaps 10 or so.

For government reporting purposes, a small business is any business under 500. This is always something to keep in mind when generalizations are made about “small business” in America.

Many surveyed (44%) are planning to hire and that’s considered an optimistic sign.

Interestingly, many small businesses surveyed (99%!) aren’t expecting to receive funds from the “Stimulus” plans. It’s larger businesses who can afford, lawyers, staff for federal compliance, grant writers, or “connections” who will be seeking “stimulus” funds.

Small Businesses Getting Ready to Hire

Intuit Payroll Survey Finds 44 Percent of Small Businesses Plan to Hire Within 12 Months, But Still Struggle with Employee Benefits

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Oct. 26, 2009 – The nation’s unemployment rate may have hit a 26-year high in September but many small business owners are getting ready to hire.

The latest Intuit Payroll survey from Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) finds that nearly half of the small business owners surveyed, 44 percent, are planning to hire new employees within the next 12 months. At the same time, many small business owners believe that benefits are key to attracting new hires but are finding them difficult to afford.

“Economists may have declared the recession over, but on Main Street, unemployment figures are what really matter,” said Nora Denzel, senior vice president of Intuit’s Employee Management Solutions Division, which helps more than 1 million small businesses easily and affordably manage their payroll. “There are struggles ahead, nobody is uncorking the champagne bottle quite yet, but we are starting to see small signs of optimism.”

For the Intuit Payroll survey respondents, these 12-month hiring plans coincide with a somewhat optimistic view of their own prospects for growth. Sixty percent expect their business to grow in the next year. Newer businesses are the most bullish: 80 percent of companies founded less than three years ago expect to grow over the next year, compared to roughly half that have been in operation for 10 years or more.

When it comes to hiring, small business owners are looking for candidates with a broader skill set. Fifty percent of the small business respondents said they were looking for a “people person” or “jack of all trades,” over a “creative genius” (11 percent) or “mathematical wizard” (4 percent).

To help small businesses as they prepare to hire, Intuit Payroll provides useful hiring and employee management tips and resources at:http://intuitonlinepayroll.com/hire.

Benefits Key to Attracting Talent

While small business owners get ready to hire, many of them are in a quandary when it comes to attracting talent. Nearly 90 percent of survey participants said that health insurance benefits are important to attracting and retaining good employees. Yet 58 percent don’t offer healthcare insurance, with nearly 50 percent stating that they can’t afford it.

Employer-provided retirement plans are even scarcer. Among the businesses surveyed just one-fourth offer retirement benefits. Of those who don’t, nearly two-thirds said they don’t have a responsibility to do so while the remainder said that they can’t find an affordable plan.

“There’s a widening gap of expectations,” said Denzel. “On one hand, we as a society assume that health and retirement benefits are part of every employee’s compensation package. And yet even as these small businesses gear up to hire, according to our results, small businesses are leery about what those benefits will cost.”

Additional Findings

The survey also found that:

• Friends and family matter. Seventy-nine percent of small business owners surveyed have hired a friend or family member and only 22 percent said that this was a bad decision. The reason may have to do with trust, which was cited as one of the two biggest hiring challenges, along with finding employees with the right experience.

·         Long-term relationships are important. Forty-four percent of the small business owner respondents reported that their first employee still works for them. ·         Stimulus funds not a factor. Consistent with the previous Intuit Payroll Survey conducted three months ago, only 1 percent of respondents reported receiving federal stimulus money. Yet 74 percent admit that they are probably not taking advantage of all the benefits available to their business under the federal economic stimulus plan.

“Small business owners are busy people and it’s not surprising that they don’t know all that’s available to them under the federal economic stimulus plan,” said Denzel. “But in the end they could be leaving money on the table.”

Further information on the availability of stimulus money can be found on the IRS Web site, www.irs.gov.

Survey Methodology

The third-quarter 2009 Intuit Payroll Survey was conducted by Global Strategy Group from Sept. 21-30, with 1,004 Intuit Payroll customers who participated in the online survey. The margin of error for this survey at the 95 percent confidence level is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points on the overall sample. The margin of error on sub-samples is greater.  More survey findings can be found at www.intuitpayrollblog.com.

If it does, it’s hard to predict what you might want to do this year to maximize sales. In years past, you might have thrown money into advertising and not worried about what worked and what didn’t because overall profits justified it.

But what about this year?

You might be able to plan better with some input about what this year’s holiday shopping market might look like. Lacking a “crystal ball” you may want to at least read about what some retail experts have to say about what might transpire in the months ahead.

If so, here’s a free resource:

Download the 2009 Holiday Survival Kit (offsite)

If you could connect someway and at least get to a “yes” or “no”, life would be much easier. You’d stop daydreaming about the big sale and at least get back into reality.

So how could you contact this person? Think Twitter! Here’s what the New York Times has to say: Uncovering Connections on Twitter Could Become Big Business

It’s an interesting thought for sales people seeking a new way of getting real world referrals in the Web 2.0… in the world of Facebook and Twitter, making contact with your real prospects is possibly easier than ever.

How could this help your business?

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 synergies with our e-commerce and online payments businesses. As a separate company, we believe that Skype will have the focus required to compete effectively in online voice and video communications and accelerate its growth momentum.

I hope they can make this deal profitable as is and that current subscribers like myself and many readers won’t get “hosed” in the process of paying for this transaction!

You’d get in trouble because you’re likely too far “off the beaten” path to be accepted under this program.

More details will be coming out later, but, for now I’m going to alert my readers to this blog.

You may qualify for this if you …

1. Have an existing business (or even operate a non-profit organization or “ministry”) that is easily accessible to the public and properly licensed.

2. Have a clean criminal record.

3. Would like to add a revenue stream or profit center to your existing business or organization.

4. You are friendly to the customer (unlike, say, Seinfeld’s “Soup Nazi”).

5. You are willing to be trained by phone (short term training).

6. You can allocate a fixed amount of space to this profit center – 3 feet by 3 feet is fine.

7. You have Hi Speed Internet Access on site (not negotiable)

8. You have staff available to perform the service during routine business hours.

9. You would like to have new potential customers walking into your business or non-profit.

Locations for this service are being sought nationwide.

While there is no guarantee of any particular revenue level from this venture, the national companies seeking these locations will be investing a signficiant amount of money in the equipment they place in your business. They will not be positioning equipment somewhere they are unlikely to earn a significant return on their investment which is why our existing business locations are currently earning $300, $500, $1000 or more per month offering this easy “add on” service. And, for the business or non profit, there is NO out of pocket cost, no ongoing royalty payments or other fees. You are paid per transaction and pay nothing to partcipate as the service location.

Obviously this is NOT MLM or network marketing. It is a completely digital process. It’s clean, requires no inventory, no shipping, receiving, stocking, and, as a result, there is no “loss” due to theft, breakage, or spoilage!

Ideal business locations for this service we’ve found are:

Insurance agencies

Coffee shops

Shipping stores and/or “Copy Shops”

Lock and Key stores

Non-profit service agencies

Child and Family Service Agencies

Career Centers

Virtually any public small business or non-profit that opens its doors to the working public!

How will you be making money? Did it sound so good you wondered if it were legal by now?

Yes, it’s entirely legal. In fact, you will be helping national companies fulfill state contracts to perform digital fingerprinting for people required by the government to keep their finger prints on file. In this age of homeland security and increasing concern about child protection, this is a “trending topic”!

Nationwide, the demand for these sites – the more people the more locations needed – is growing.

The company telling me about this will be charging a $25 to businesses to register their site. They are the site location firm for these national companies who obtain these government contracts.

A few readers of this blog will be allowed to register their sites for free while the company tests their registration process!

So stay tuned! This will get very interesting.

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In the comment field (in addition to any URL you leave) place your company’s

Name
Address
City State Zip

If it’s verified by Google search, we’ll enter you in the drawing for a free listing and notify winners by email. (It may be several weeks).

Or if the antenna doesn’t work (or they fear it won’t work), these residents will have to become customers of local cable networks or select a satellite television provider like Direct TV Service. I saw a number of their trucks busily at work Saturday in the parts of the county where people live in areas not accessible it seems to the digital signal!

Initial reports are that 20% of the calls to the federal hotline were about RECEPTION issues. You see, for many it wasn’t about procrastination at all! And most of these calls were from big city areas. The largest volume of calls came from the Chicago area, followed by Dallas-Ft. Worth, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. This does not include the calls that went to individual stations themselves… thousands more! I suspect that providers like Direct TV System are getting an ear full themselves as people call and “vent” while ordering something the know WILL WORK!

Pay close attention over the next few weeks if you market satellite TV… you’ll have a very receptive audience in some parts of the country – maybe everywhere!

“A decade ago, the path to a successful future seemed sure. Secure a foothold in the emerging information economy, and your city or region was destined to boom.”

Today, that isn’t necessarily so.

I recall a friend visiting me in another state over 12 years ago.

He spoke glowingly of Tennessee with it’s light factories, plentiful jobs and generally “clean and efficient” Southern atmosphere.

He spoke about “light manufacturing” as the people Kotkin mentions speak about “technology”.

Now the Promised Land of the South is pockmarked with empty industrial parks and fast talking factories seeing who’ll give them free land, rent and utilities just to put their local populations to work.

Being the “low wage” producer only works until you’re under bid.

While the technology boom did boom, it’s now working overtime to stay even… it’s not creating new jobs in many places.

As Kotkin said, the whole charade was pitched as a way to avoid the “business cycle” and ride the wave of perpetual profits… as if that sector were not vulnerable to technological improvement, competition, or sheer human stupidity!

But as workers moving South to follow jobs found, this trend too only provided short term relief. The difference was the pitchmen. In the former case, my friend was pitching the glories of the South. No money exchanged hands.

In the later, lots of money exchanged hands as economic developers and business pitchmen both sought your tax dollars to quench their thirsts and promised endless returns.

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I’ll let her describe it in her own words, but I think the logic is sound. Toys sell at the best prices during the upcoming holiday season. NOW is the time to get inventory from yard sales and thrift stores that go for pennies and can be resold for significant markups when there is a more active, hungry market for the items as Christmas approaches and the bargain hunters come out of the woodwork:

EBay sellers are frustrated this time of year because many markets go into a summer slump. Used toys ARE SELLING right now with huge profit margins!

Look at this email I just got from Heather – she just made over $200 on ONE USED TOY AUCTION a couple
of weeks ago!

“I just wanted to drop you a note and let you know, just how much you have helped me. I bought your
Holiday Toy Guide and did very well with the information that you supplied. After the new toy market
dropped in January, I was at a loss.

Thanks to your persistance in sending me new information about selling used toys, I have found my niche.
I have started garage selling and am absolutely hooked! Now, if I could just get enough time in the day to
list all the great deals I have gotten. I bought a Playmobil house with lots of accessories at a garage sale for $20. It just sold Sunday for $238.50. Woohoo! I have bought the Summer Toy selling guide and hope to find lots more great deals.

Thanks so much! – Heather”

The Summer Toy Guide comes with a downloadable ebook with strategies and tips for selling used toys -
but, honestly, the real value is in e weekly report that is emailed out.

The regular price for 3 month’s of weekly reports is $45… but, the Summer Toy Guide includes 3 months
and is only $27. Not to mention all of the other goodies in the Summer Toy Guide package.

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You can go to the site right now and see a list of current sellers!

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