Archive for February, 2006

The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network this week:

Best and Worst of Making Money Online: Part 1
Selling for Others on eBay
Brazil: Carnival in Your Living Room
Links for 2006-02-15
First Lenovo-Branded Products Debut Worldwide
Self Employed Tax Write Offs
Los Inicios [...]

Economic Times:
Tall, gangly, blond with turquoise blue eyes that look into you with an intensity that’s surprising and makes it difficult to call her Maggie or Meg.
Meg Whitman, president & CEO of eBay, is probably the longest-serving chief of a dotcom firm. Someone who has seen the boom, bust and the maturing of the internet [...]

Baltimore Sun:
It didn’t take long before people began cashing in on Kimmie Meissner.
Even as the 16-year old Bel Air ice skater was landing her triple lutz triple toe combination in Turin yesterday, there were 24 postings on eBay by people selling autographed photos, newspaper clippings, signed ice skates and autographs connected to starlet Meissner.
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101 Best:
A Victorian casino antiques auction is to be held next month, as announced yesterday by Ableauctions.com, which is hosting the auction on behalf of Victorian Casino Antiques. The auction, held in Las Vegas, will be broadcast live on the Internet. It will include antique casino items, dating back from as early as the 1840’s. [...]

NDTV:
The latest CEO to visit India is Meg Whitman, the head of eBay, the world’s biggest auction site. India is becoming an increasingly important market for eBay, especially as its growth on home ground has slowed down.
“Our business here is quite small and quite nascent, but we think that over the next five to ten [...]

vnunet.com:
Sir Elton John has placed one of his most famous pianos up for auction on eBay to raise funds for the Aids charity which he founded.
The iconic Yamaha DC6A Pro digital acoustic 6ft 11in grand piano, played by the star at a variety of special events surrounding his hit shows in Las Vegas, will be [...]

I certainly would love to have one of these little auction guys take off, but the reality is, unless you see Google or Microsoft somewhere in the name of the auction site, it is not likely much of a challenge for eBay.
Mercury News:
Recently, Sari Hirsch was looking online for a DVD of the movie “Cheaper [...]

iMedia:
Auctions only work when the value of a product is indeterminate, as I wrote. That could be either a warehouse full of 1994 calendars or a Van Gogh. This economic esprit can apply to some media, like the Angelfire crap that used to make up the bulk of Flycast’s blind-bid media network, or perhaps the [...]

ByteStart:
The internet auction site eBay has become a global phenomenon in recent years. Today, an estimated 135 million users around the world currently use the service to buy and sell things as diverse as mobile homes, jewellery, and celebrity clothes.
Its popularity has also seen the site become an obvious business opportunity for entrepreneurs. With millions [...]

Boston.com:
On Sunday, Bob Golub posted 10 auctions on eBay, including listings for a mink coat, a vintage comb and brush set, and an embroidery tool.
But it’s not stuff he found while rummaging through his basement. Golub owns the QuikDrop franchise in Sudbury, a storefront that sells things on eBay for people. The store opened last [...]