Online Business
Make Money With YouTube?
People who upload their own films to the video-sharing website YouTube will soon get a share of the advertising revenue. YouTube founder Chad Hurley has confirmed that his team is working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would “reward creativity” He said the system would be rolled out in a couple of months and use a [...]
Voice Advantage
Every business owner knows it: If you could just talk to prospects one-on-one, you could convert them to customers. Click-to-chat and click-to-call features, of course, have existed for years, but now there’s a new, more viral twist. Starting today you can test out a new service that attempts to combine the best of social networking [...]
1-800-CAB-RIDE
Hailing a cab works great in certain neighborhoods, but if you’re off the beaten path there’s not a lot of chances that a cabbie is going to randomly swing by for a pickup. One man is betting that the Digg generation would be more inclined to use taxis if there was a convenient web interface. [...]
Balsam Fir
Wendy Newmeyer started her foray into the balsam business by selling the cut branches of the balsam fir trees for a local incense factory. Quite coincidentally, she had read in a book that Native Americans used balsam trees as herb for many different home remedies. With her long-standing interests in herbs “that got me excited [...]
eBay CEO Says Web Scams Hurt Business
eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman said increasingly sophisticated Internet scams were eroding the trust of online shoppers and hurting e-commerce. She also called on industry leaders to work together more closely at a time when legitimate businesses must thwart global criminal organizations vying for control over sensitive financial data traveling across the Internet. “Security on [...]
EZPay, Payment Tool for Small Biz
EZPay, a Chehalis, Wash.-based financial services firm, has launched an application that enables small businesses to have checks printed and mailed online. EZPay Small Businesses Solutions eliminates the need for business to print checks in the workplace and mail them to customers, clients or suppliers separately, saving time and resources, the company said. “This is [...]
Coldwell Banker’s Second Life
Don’t think the Second Life land rush is over. Now a huge real estate firm is entering the 3D virtual world, as the service’s headlong growth continues. Real estate deals may be slowing in the real world, but in the three-dimensional online one of Second Life the market remains hot. Now Coldwell Banker, one of [...]
