Archive for May 16th, 2006

  • Elvis Home Nets $900K on eBay

    express india:
    The King’s first home is now another man’s castle. A ranch-style Memphis home that Elvis Presley bought in 1956 as his career was taking off has sold for US $ 905,100 on the online auction service eBay.

    Peter Gleason, a New York attorney and retired fire-fighter, posted the high bid in the final […]

  • Free Calls for Skype Users in 2006

    eitb:
    Users who make outgoing calls to and within countries outside the US and Canada will continue to incur per-minute charges.

    Skype, eBay Inc.’s Internet telephone subsidiary, has stopped charging users for dialling up people on traditional landline and mobile phones in the US and Canada.
    The Internet telephone service, which has always offered free PC-to-PC calls around […]

  • U.S. Supreme Court ruling favors eBay

    If I understand this correctly, eBay may still lose this court battle regarding ’Buy It Now’ technology.
    Macworld:
    A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday favoring eBay Inc. in a patent dispute won praise from some technology vendors, but some intellectual property lawyers questioned the long-term effects of the decision.
    The Supreme Court set aside a lower court’s decision to […]

  • Work At Home Mom’s eBay Chat

    Even though I am not a Mom, I will be a featured “chatter” this week as part of a series of marketing chats for Work At Home Moms.
    I will be doing a chat titled ‘Q & A with eBay Entrepreneur’ at 11AM Pacific/2PM Eastern on Thursday, May 18th.
    The chat will be hosted at: www.wahpromotion.com
    You can enter the […]

  • Last Week in the Business Opportunities Weblog Network`

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

    Keyword Analysis and Research
    Shanty Town, Samba and Entrepreneurship
    3rd High Profile Powerseller Gone
    Franchisees See Red After Brown Takes Over
    Is Bioperformace Dyed Green Mothballs?
    Free Calls With Skype
    This List of Work at Home Job Firms […]

  • eBay goes back to the future with catalogs

     DMNews:
    Catalogs will play a big role in eBay’s direct marketing this year as the Internet merchant takes a more formalized approach to this still-young portion of its business for the first time.
    EBay has tested more than 20 standalone DM programs with varying results in the past few years including coupons, freestanding inserts, invitations to online […]