Catalog Success Magazine has an interesting post on how a small business can play with the big boys — and win — in the catalog business. Here are some of their tips: The key to success is “unique product, unique product, unique product.” Protect your unique products via copyrights, trademarks and patents. Develop efficient operations, [...]

If you are going to start an online newsletter, you can choose these business models: 1. Subscription based model = you charge a membership fee whether monthly or annual to read and subscibe to the newsletter. Be sure to have really compelling and unique content that others will not be able to get for free [...]

The Washington DC area has a very thriving second hand or consignment market. With plenty of foreign service personnel living in the area, shopping in the consignment stores can yield one-of-a-kind pieces from various parts of the world. It’s always a thrill to find great and unique pieces of items from consignment stores that you [...]

Big publishers such as Ziff Davis, American Business Media and others have been conducting events such as trade shows and seminars as an additional revenue stream for their businesses. In fact, Publishing Executive Magazine reports that trade shows have overtaken business-to-business media’s print revenue in 2006, accounting for 36% of the industry’s revenues. Many small [...]

A question was asked in Yahoo Answers if anyone knows of statistics that will show what percentage of users click on the top result, what percent clicks the second, and so on. I remember a paper I read a few years ago that actually looked at the behavior of search engine users and gave some [...]

The Internet is really reshaping lending as we know it. I just learned of a fantastic site that allows investors to lend to entrepreneurs from poor countries, where $325 can mean the fulfillment of a life long dream to start a business and hopefully alleviate one’s family from poverty. The site is called Kiva http://www.kiva.org [...]