Online Business
New designers find shortcut to fashion fame
When pop princess Ashlee Simpson was first photographed last summer post-nose job, it wasn’t just her plastic surgery that garnered mass attention. Sales of the dress she was wearing in the photo skyrocketed.
In the current celebrity-obsessed scene, an A-list star – on or off the red carpet – shown wearing a new designer’s creation can [...]
Keeping Costs Low For an Internet Business
Hiring a Web developer to build an e-commerce site from scratch can cost at least $5,000, and often far more. But there are cheap alternatives for those willing to do much of the setup themselves — many of which don’t require much time or technical savvy.
For an e-commerce novice, an all-inclusive service may be most [...]
Entrepreneur Hopes Web Site Will Be Myspace For Walkers
WalkStyles invited America’s fitness community to use its free, online service to form walking clubs. Participants can register, connect with like-minded walkers where they live or where they travel, and use the site to manage their group activities.
If all goes as planned, it could become the MySpace for walkers.
The target audience is huge and growing: [...]
Online Video Generating Excitement
Online video is becoming the killer application of the Internet as b-to-b marketers embrace it as an integral part of their marketing programs, using it in such disparate formats as 15-second banner ads and long-form documentaries.
Spending on online video advertising will more than triple in the next three years, growing from $775.0 million this year [...]
Funny Business Going On Online
The business model is simple: Build it, make it funny enough, and the public will come. And once you get enough eyeballs, you can make money through advertising, just like regular TV networks.
Ever since a bootleg clip of a Saturday Night Live sketch comedy skit put YouTube on the map in December 2005, the growing [...]
America’s Next Business Tycoons
17-year-old Jake Fisher and Weina Scott, who met via an online message board, started their business in June 2005.
Switchpod is a podcasting hosting service that provides both free and premium accounts. You can create a podcast with their technology, upload it to Switchpod and be podcasting to the world in a matter of minutes.
Switchpod’s product [...]
Using Your MySpace Page For Business
Here’s a checklist to make sure that your MySpace page is optimized to generate leads for you.
They all center around one huge rule: You must bring the business conversation away from MySpace. As long as you are on MySpace, you have to play by its members’ rules.
The first thing you must have is a form [...]
