Business with Craig’s List

For the past few summers I have worked for my parents who are both real estate agents. A large part of my job is marketing the listings that we have. One of the most cost-effective things we’ve done, particularly for rental properties, is advertising them on CraigsList.  CraigsList seems to be growing in popularity for [...]

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Pownce.com

From the creator of Digg.com, Kevin Rose, comes his latest creation, Pownce.com. Pownce is a web community on which members share articles, links, photos, music and events with one another. Then, users can discuss what they’ve shared.
Without being a member I wasn’t able to delve really deeply into the workings of the site, nor was [...]

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Marketing Brainstorming

Article titles:

Make Money Fast from the Comfort of Your Couch
Top 15 books for young entrepreneur
who wants to be a millionaire - social networking gurus
creepy ways to meet your mate
your king, your country, your internet domain
top 5 web designers too new to overcharge you

Any tool or widget

last site and the next site that the last visitor [...]

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Catching on

I read this article in Entrepreneur magazine over break and I thought I’d share it. Apparently even though some ppl are still in the dark ages and see web 2.0 sites as a negative, some are catching on.

Group Dynamics
Facebook could reap a bounty of benefits for your business. Should you join?
By Gwen Moran [...]

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Second Life - a not so new idea

After watching the video that was posted, a few thoughts spring to mind. One being that while in one sense the development of a site like second life is a little scary, it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch. Even before the age of Web 2.0 and video games, people have enjoyed the idea [...]

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Ebay & Kiva

Ebay

What principles did we learn from eBay?

User driven content
They’ve made it really easy to buy and sell

PayPal

What makes eBay successful

A global audience
Empowers the average person to buy and sell
They’ve created an [...]

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Kiva has now lent $11 million in Microloans

In the two years since it’s founding, as of this September, Kiva has distributed $11 million dollars in the form of 17,000 microloans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
It took Kiva.org just over a year to lend out their first million but they’d lent their second only a month later. The average size of a Kiva [...]

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Meg Whitman’s Ebay

When we talked about facebook, we talked about Mark Zukerberg, so i thought is only fitting to say something about Meg Whitman. While she didn’t found eBay, she is responsible for grwoing it into what it is today.
Here are excerpts from an article I found detailing Whitman’s transformation of eBay:
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 23, 2008 (AFP) [...]

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The benefits of Facebook

While I do think that Facebook has run a little far afield from what it was when we all joined, I still use and appreciate it for what it was originally: a way to keep in touch. Yes, we are bombarded with graffiti walls and applications but we don’t have to use them. It is [...]

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