Friday, July 6, 2007

Open Forum For Small Business

American Express' OPEN credit division for small business has just launched Openforum.com. With a growing article database, regularly updated business stories, event postings and industry forums, the new social networking site for small business owners is worth bookmarking. AE is kicking off its launch on June 26 with a panel of well-known directors, writers and producers who will share how they used "power networking" to make it in the entertainment industry.
More at:http://www.openforum.com/
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Don't Worry And Share Your Any Business Idea At......

When aspiring entrepreneurs come to my office for help, many of them are very hesitant to share many details about what they are hoping to do.

“They are afraid to share any specific aspect of their business for fear that someone will steal their idea and beat them to the punch,” said Jeff Cornwall, director of the Belmont University Center for Entrepreneurship.

Just how real is this fear?

To attract potential financing, suppliers, employees and so forth, and to get help from advisers, the entrepreneur needs to become comfortable with sharing their idea.

Follow these five tips:

1. Always keep in mind that success comes from sound execution and implementation much more than the idea itself. Ideas can be a dime a dozen.

2. Entrepreneurs should always be prudent about whom they talk with about business.

3. When in doubt, have people sign a confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement.

4. Patents can help, too, but that’s never completely foolproof and it can get expensive.

5. Finally, trust your instincts. If someone makes you nervous with questions concerning your idea, back off. You don’t have to share information if you don’t feel comfortable.
More at:http://www.tennessean.com/

Podango will offers all that you need to start Podcasting and and start profiting.

Podango will offers all that you need to start Podcasting and and start profiting. It is a media hosting, publishing and advertising platform all in one, allowing you to create content, make a Podango site and utilize their suite of tools, APIs, blog plug-ins, and remote players From there, you can start generating profit and then take 50% percent of the cut off of your Podango hosted site with your syndicated podcasts.
More at:http://www.podango.com/

Flogd is basically a flash-based tool that allows you to create shops stocked with your own products and put them anywhere

Flogd is basically a flash-based tool that allows you to create shops stocked with your own products and put them anywhere using the tried-and-true method of cut and paste. It’s sort of like Photobucket, Slide or RockYou, but for products you want to sell, rather than photos of random stuff. The shops include built-in shopping carts, and a buyer can safely and securely purchase anything from a seller's shop right then and there, rather than being redirected to another page- significantly reducing the rate of drop off, and potentially leading to increased sales and exposure.
Flogd’s main point of difference is their extreme usability, both for buyers and sellers. On the marketing end, it is simple for those wanting to sell their products to easily put their products on their blogs, websites and social networking communities, using their flash-based tool. For sellers, it’s less likely that they’ll abandon their shopping cart because transactions are not redirected to another page.
More at:http://www.flogd.com/

"Qoof " generate solid revenue from their partnerships with online retail affiliate programs.

Qoof is real good for those people who catch things in camera and for now they can make money by just putting their videos on Qoof which will give them few dollors for uploading after uploading they would provide you code and people can copy and paste those code on their websites and blogs and that will generate revenue for you. Usermercials is a consumer software application that leverages the power of broadband video content to enable users to finally generate solid revenue from their partnerships with online retail affiliate programs. Make a video of a product, upload it, insert affiliate code, profit?
More at:http://www.qoof.com/

Imagekind represents a new kind of marketplace where prospective customers can be reached across the globe

Imagekind represents a new kind of marketplace where prospective customers can be reached across the globe. The service is always free to use and the artists set their own retail prices. It is one of the most powerful new platform for selling fine art prints from digital files.
What They Claim:
One community for creating, buying, and selling art, Imagekind introduces a new development in print-on-demand services. Artists of all types including, digital photographers, photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, painters, printmakers and draftsmen, can sell their work online with a free Imagekind online art gallery. Customers can readily find a wide variety of wall art, framed art, digital photography and poster art on our site. Imagekind fine art prints can be ordered with millions of combinations of frames, papers, canvas types, and sizes. Look through our large collection of photography and giclee prints.
More at:http://www.imagekind.com/

WebScriptLab Which Help You To Change Your Ideas Into Script

This site is simple yet utterly practical. The first tool out of the lab is a gif generator; if you haven’t already got a little round icon to indicate your Ajax is loading you can create one; simply pick an indicator type, background color, foreground color, speed, and presto, you’ve got yourself a handy yet elegant loading icon.

To create favorites icons upload a picture (150KB max.), convert it to the 16×16 Favicon standard and hit generate. The same goes for your web domain, just click generate and see what’s available. WebScriptLab may not have tons to offer, but what they’ve got so far is pretty useful.

As They Say:
“Create your own ajax loading gif easily” “Create a favorites icon for
your site” “Create your own web 2.0 domain easily” .
More at:http://webscriptlab.com/

Sitevolume Is For Those People Who Want To Know How Popular They Are And How To Find It

Sitevolume is a tool that tells you how many time was a certain term mentioned on Digg, MySpace, YouTube, Flicker, or Twitter. It comes from the creators of Tweetvolume who decided to expand the concept a bit.

While Tweetvolume wan’t much more than a toy for Twitter fans, Sitevolume can be put in the “useful SEO tools” category. It works fast, it lets you compare the results 5 different sites, and it has a nice visual representation of the results. So, if you want to know how popular you really are, you know where to go.
More at:http://www.sitevolume.com/