Online Business
10 Tips For Getting Your Email Marketing Emails Past the Spam Filters
A recent Direct Marketing Association (DMA) study showed that “Email’s ROI in 2008 was $45.06 for every dollar spent on it.” This is outstanding news for permission-based email marketers but you have to get into the Inbox to realize this level of ROI. Here are some tips on how to improve your Inbox delivery.
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‘Lonelygirl’ Gets Popular With Investors
Producers of the Internet-video serial “lonelygirl15″ — once thought to be an amateur project but later revealed to be the product of professionals — have raised $5 million from prominent technology investors to expand and introduce new online shows.
The new funding for EQAL, the Los Angeles company behind “lonelygirl” and another popular Internet drama, “KateModern,” [...]
Teen Entrepreneur Earns $41,000 for College
Jordan Lakoduk/ entrepreneur-”I started ‘Dotcomr‘ in early 2004. My brother was getting his senior pictures taken, and he was talking to the photographer and she mentionted that she needed a website. And my brother mentioned that my brother does websites. I was really fortunate to have a really successful business person trust a high school [...]
eBay Australia Bans All Payment Methods Except PayPal
eBay is requiring that users in Australia use its PayPal payment service on all transactions. Aside from transactions in which the buyer picks up items in person and cash-on-delivery, no other payment method will be permitted, and eBay is banning sellers from using their own merchant credit card accounts if they have them. eBay said [...]
Making Appointments For Doctor Or Dinner
THE e-commerce bandwagon bypassed millions of carpenters, massage therapists, lawyers and other service providers, mostly because it is impossible to drop an appointment into a shopping cart without unleashing a scheduling nightmare.
“This is something that’s been needed for a while, but no one has been able to do it successfully,†said Greg Sterling, of Sterling [...]
10 Businesses For Work At Home Moms
New and exciting work options seem to pop up all the time in today’s fast-paced cyber-world. Even so, certain fields have emerged as the most popular — and successful — online choices. Explore our hot picks to see if there’s something that fits your skills, talents or interests.
Coaching and Teaching
Communications/Information
Direct Sales
E-tailing
Event Planning
Parenting Services/Products
Personal Services
Virtual Assistant
Website [...]
The risks of running an ethical business
Tough product reviews anger some advertisers but win reader trust – and revenue – over time.
Running a Web site that publishes reviews of camcorders sounds like a tame line of work. But I had a moment of terror when an executive at a major electronics manufacturer accused me of hacking into the corporation’s computer system [...]
