Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Build A Niche Store is a small eCommerce site builder that was recently reviewed by affiliate guru ShoeMoney. It's not a shopping cart; it's just an eBay affiliate program platform. It has a CMS built into it so you can add relevant content. The eBay ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
... safeguarding the privacy of AMZN buyers against government goons. Hooray for Judge Stephen Crocker.
“It is an unsettling and un-American scenario to envision federal agents nosing through the reading lists of law-abiding citizens while hunting for evidence against somebody else,”
Read the story on MediaPost's site.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
I'm not a huge fan of the Motley Fool, but I did enjoy this post. I'm a huge fan of living below your means. And I'm an even more huge fan of increasing your means to increase the degree by which you live below your means.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Other than the hard-to-parse name "Alpha Five Version 8," the guys at Alpha Software have it going on. Take a look at their press release announcing the latest release and rebranding of their e-commerce offering, AlphaStore 2007. I like the fact that they did it with ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
My little book club was lucky enough to talk with Kristy Kiernan, author of the recent book group favorite, Catching Genius. I've always wondered about overnight sensation stories like hers, so we talked about her path to success. Turns out Catching Genius is not a first novel... ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Yesterday, software vendor Intuit announced its planned acquisition of Homestead Technologies. Homestead is a hosted drag and drop website-building product. For customers who do need e-commerce enabled sites, they offer Paypal Shopping cart as a bolt-on e-commerce solution, or StoreFront as an integrated solution. I'll be interested ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Friday, the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reported that industrialist Henry Rowan of the Inductotherm Group has provided a five million dollar challenge grant to the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades.
Williamson is a very unusual school. Tuition is free and provided on the basis of need. ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Well, it's more like Monday Evening Motivation - I got back at noon today from running the Space Coast Half Marathon in Cocoa Beach and haven't had time until now to get to this.
Take a look at these great motivational quotes from BNET's Sales Machine. Maybe you won't find ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Wall Street Journal Editorial page nemesis Bill Lerach may be headed to the slammer for his misdeeds - but that doesn't mean we don't still need aggressive class action lawsuits to rein in misbehaving corporations. Disagree? Check out the cover story of the Nov 12 issue of Business ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Retail Solutions Online recently posted an interesting PDF download called 12 Lessons Learned In Driving E-Commerce Success from eFashionSolutions.com.
eFashionSolutions.com is not just another hosted e-commerce provider - they do offer a robust hosted eCommerce platform specifically focused on the fashion and entertainment industries, but they differentiate ...
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