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Ebay shares are in the news because share prices are taking it on the chin according to outlets like Schaeffer Research. Why? Competitors like Google are unveiling potential rivals to ebay subsidiaries like PayPal. The stock’s price has degraded sharply since it’s Initial Public Offering.
The 70,000+ people reportedly using eBay to make money will likely […]

There have always been deals cut to sell empty advertising space and empty air time at the last minute.
Once the publisher goes to press or the air time passes any opportunity to generate revenue is gone. So even ads sold at a deep discount give the media outlets more than they’d otherwise make.
These last second […]

I was watching CBS last night about the demise of newspaper classified advertising.
They highlighted a Cyber Cafe specializing in 3 areas…
1. Coffee
2. WiFi
3. Laundry
They called it the “Brain Wash” … and it was doing a booming business.
What fascinated me was how easily in this quasi-residential section of the city where it was located, you first […]

Working from home can even take the form of working from an RV.
Joyce Gioia and Roger Herman are married and also business partners. They found that they really didn’t need to rent an office or even BE in any particular location as long as they could have access to email. Here’s part of their […]

From the Sunday Business Post Online
A British company that answers queries from customers by sending them a text message, plans to recruit 200 people in Ireland over the next two years.
AQA (Any Question Answered), which was launched in Ireland last week, answers 10,000 customer questions a day on topics that range from rail timetables to […]

Web Auctions like Ebay are helping Middle Americans recover from the vagaries of today’s economy according to this article…
Al Losey, a corporate trainer at a Detroit auto parts maker, lost his job six weeks ago in what could be another down-and-out story from a hard luck corner of the American economy.
Instead, Losey, and his wife […]

Small businesses should realize that there’s an opportunity here it seems to promote yourself for free if you can get listings in Froogle or provide the comments about your business.
Home businesses may want to align with popular “brick and mortar” businesses so that your products or services are sold through them for a referral fee or commission and […]

Rich Mullins describes the backbone of America… our small business owners in comparison to, say, the Big Wigs of the Fortune 100.
It pays to ponder the differences between the two creatures… governments cater to the latter. That’s why the government calls a “small business” has 500 employees or less: other businesses aren’t even on the […]

According to the UK’s Telegraph Cornwall England is the latest location noted for it’s changing demographics thanks to the spread of broadband internet access and telecommuting.
Savannah GA has attracted telecommuters through a joint task force approach, Cornwall’s growth has evolved simply because of the availability of broadband and improved transport to other areas of the country.
After […]

MSN (via Franchise Business Opportunities) ran this article on “start easy with a franchise or business opportunity”. Supposedly that’s always the “safe way” to get into business.
There are great “shortcuts” involved in starting a franchise if you have the money up front.
I was talking with a friend of mine the other day about his franchise.
He […]