Online Business


Five Reasons For Small Business Owners To Blog

Why do small business owners write on blogs? A faster and better way to create newsletter articles. A strategy for getting published. A low-cost way for a small business owner to market online. A method to communicate and connect — especially important for business owners. Satisfaction of some inner need to share. Why do you [...]

Making Mad Money on eBay

One day in the early 1990’s Diana Duyser of Hollywood, Fla. made herself a grilled- cheese sandwich. Then she gazed down at the brown skillet marks on the bread: “I saw a face looking up at me; it was the Virgin Mary staring back. I was in total shock,” she later told reporters. Diana held [...]

Link-Building Secret

With all the talk about the best ways to build backlinks, getting recognized by other bloggers, and “tips & tricks�? for promoting your own blog, it’s easy to forget about one of the simplest and most effective ways of marketing yourself: being friendly. Introduce Yourself & Your Blog. Make Friends via MyBlogLog. Pay it Forward. [...]

Sold on eBay, Shipped by Amazon

Your next eBay purchase could arrive at your door in a brown Amazon.com box. Amazon.com, the online retailer, is expanding a program designed to allow independent sellers to use its network of distribution centers to store and ship their products, according to Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive. Since last fall, the program, [...]

Sell What You Say

Just over a year ago, we covered Ether, which makes it easy for (budding) entrepreneurs to sell spoken advice and support by providing them with a dedicated 1-888 number for customers to call, and taking care of billing and payments. Now, a massive player has joined the arena. Skype’s latest software release includes a beta [...]

How to make money without really trying

Business 2.0 Magazine looks at scrappy entrepreneurs who are squeezing big money out of websites that tap into the latest news, trends, and search fads. When word of a whites-only scholarship at Boston University hit the media last fall–drawing coverage from bloggers and biggies like ABC alike–Daniel Kovach smelled opportunity. His goal: to boost traffic [...]

Small Home Business Company Using YouTube Video Marketing For Big Gains

Now with the social networking websites such as YouTube and MySpace, coupled with the advances in video online technology the time required to reach a tipping point has accelerated. While Madison Avenue advertisers are looking for new ways to break through the noise smaller companies are using their creativity and low-budget production to stake out [...]