Keepm for all your contact management and sharing needs.

Keepm for all your contact management and sharing needs. It is an amazing and free application that holds unlimited contacts and even has a unique promotion where you can send them your business cards and they will scan them into your account...for FREE!!! More at:http://www.keepm.com/

ReliMatic is a global IT services company that specializes in creating world-class technology solutions and custom applications for software companies

ReliMatic is a global IT services company that specializes in creating world-class technology solutions and custom applications for software companies, enterprises, and online business customers. Through a proven global delivery platform, we offer a highly integrated suite of application development, IT consulting, and outsourcing solutions to our clients. We use innovative engagement models, balancing a sophisticated understanding of business with a close attention to detail, to custom-design our process models and meet our client's offshore development.
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Appirio delivers services and products to help medium to large enterprises accelerate on-demand adoption.

Appirio, is derived from the Latin word aperio, which means "to reveal or to make clear." Appirio delivers services and products to help medium to large enterprises accelerate on-demand adoption. With a differentiated business model that blends strategy, services, custom application development, integration and products, Appirio is a thought leader in on-demand solutions delivery. We leverage Salesforce.com's CRM solutions, Apex - the Salesforce.com platform and Google Apps to address the business needs of our customers.
To reveal or to make clear” is Appirio’s latin translation and overall mantra, and it’s clear that the new gadgets Appirio has been revealing the past few weeks are pretty stellar. Appirio offers services to Salesforce and Google Apps customers, delivering products to assist medium to large scale businesses speed up on-demand adoption. Appirio has launched iGoogle Gadget on Appexchange and in the Google Gallery, all for free, for now. Four widgets are already availably, all customizable and delivers data from 4 separate datasources inside the salesforce. Appirio combines the CRM solution and Apex platforms to meet the multifaceted needs of saleforce customers.
More at:http://www.appirio.com/

The 4-Hour Workweek is the compass for a new and revolutionary world

Whether you're an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, The 4-Hour Workweek is the compass for a new and revolutionary world.

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan—there is no need to wait and every reason not to. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, high-end world travel, monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint.

You can have it all—really.

Join Tim Ferriss, popular guest lecturer in entrepreneurship at Princeton University, as he teaches you:
How to outsource your life and do whatever you want for a year, only to return to a bank account 50% larger than before you left
How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of little-known European economists
How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it's beyond repair
How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent “mini-retirements”
What automated cash-flow "muses" are and how to create one in 2-4 weeks
How to cultivate selective ignorance—and create time—with a low-information diet
Management secrets of Remote Control CEOs
The crucial difference between absolute and relative income
How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50-80% off
How to fill the void and creating meaning after removing work and the office
The 4-Hour Workweek also includes the sample e-mails, voicemails, and real-life deals (with dollar figures and all) you will need to master the new world of luxury lifestyle design.

Who is Tim Ferriss?
Serial entrepreneur and ultravagabond Timothy Ferriss has been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, MAXIM, and other media. He speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and has been a world-record holder in tango, a national champion in Chinese kickboxing, and an actor on a hit television series in Hong Kong. He is 29 years old.

Read The 4-Hour Workweek Overview PDF
More at:http://www.4hourworkweek.com/4hww-flyer.pdf

How do you like specialized search? If you do, here are some Internet search engines to help you manage deals online.

How do you like specialized search? If you do, here are some Internet search engines to help you manage deals online.

www.bookfinder.com
www.pricewormer.com/books
Book Finder lists the lowest-priced books not only for new copies but used, as well. The site's main flaw is that shipping prices aren't included in the overwhelming results.

www.pricewormer.com/music/home.htm
Music Wormer (a sister site of Book Wormer and other media search engines) offers a variety of search options for CDs and sorts the results by total price, including shipping.

www.dvdpricesearch.net
DVD Price Search is one of the most full-featured comparison sites going, with a shopping cart that even tabulates which vendor has the best deal on several discs ordered at once. Its results include shipping and note coupons or promotions that might affect the price.

www.gamespot.com
The review site Game Spot is clunky, but it does the job. You have to search for a title, then pick the proper version and then click on the Buy It button in the upper-right part of the page for that game. Then scroll past the EB Games ad (which might have the lowest price) to see the results, which don't include shipping. Also try www.gamepricezone.com, run by the same folks behind DVD Price Search, although it's not as comprehensive.

http://dealnews.com/digital-cameras
Digital cameras and camcorders can be big-ticket items, but they also are popular gifts. Powerful Dealcam offers a wealth of search functions and gives comprehensive results from screened merchants that include the best total price and note coupons and other promotions that might apply.

http://dealmac.com
Computer-oriented price-search sites tend to be too wide-ranging, too narrow in their results or too difficult to use. Good luck with well-meaning sites such as www.pricewatch.com and www.streetprices.com. The related might be your best bet, but they focus on bargains, not price comparisons.
More at:http://www.charlotte.com/business/story/139249.html

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"Business YouTube"

John Byrne, BusinessWeek's executive editor and the acting editor-in-chief for Businessweek.com, said that company is looking to create a "business YouTube" essentially an online video hub for wannabe moguls to post short pitch videos for a new ventures or companies.

The site is also exploring the launch of an online-video-based contest that would invite anyone with a idea for a new business to submit a plan on the site with the chance to land $500,000 in venture capital funding.

Byrne, speaking during a panel session at the Interactive Media Conference in Miami, Fla. on May 24, said that like on YouTube, users would rate each proposal and ultimately vote on the winner, who would receive half a million dollars from a VC firm to invest in the proposed business.

To help create the YouTube-like platform, Byrne said the company was looking to purchase a new technology platform.

According to Byrne, the drive behind the proposed launch, given its potential appeal among non-BusinessWeek-readers, is to help widen the site's audience while also boosting repeat visits among existing users.

Given the challenging economics of print, and the need to cash in on larger online audiences, Businessweek.com is "Looking to do things that are highly engaging but are completely non-journalistic in many ways," he added.
More at:http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003590128

Quattro’s mobilization services enable advertisers to create dynamic mobile landing pages and microsites that are optimized for all mobile

The Quattro Wireless mobile web network delivers a next-generation framework for easily and quickly launching adaptive, mobile-optimized web sites that pull content directly from a Publishers wired web source and are tightly integrated to a network of high-quality advertisers.
Quattro’s mobilization services enable advertisers to create dynamic mobile landing pages and microsites that are optimized for all mobile devices and browsers. Unlike other solutions in the marketplace that only offer a “templated” approach, Quattro ad pages and sites are fully customized to reflect the advertisers’ brand and unique campaign initiatives.
More at:http://www.quattrowireless.com/

Meeting Tomorrow offers business customers easy access to audio visual equipment. Hotels often charge extortionate prices for renting a equipment

Meeting Tomorrow offers business customers easy access to audio visual equipment. Hotels often charge extortionate prices for renting a projector or display screen, and other meeting venues don't always have the equipment needed for a presentation.

On Meeting Tomorrow, you choose the equipment you need, order it online or by phone, and the equipment is delivered to your home, office, hotel or meeting location on time. Advance orders are delivered the day before the meeting, and same day orders are welcome. (Meeting Tomorrow offers same day delivery to 95% of the US, and next day service to the rest of the country.)

The beauty of the concept is how simple it is for customers, who can rely on the equipment arriving on time and don’t have to go out of their way to pick up or return a projector. For returns, Meeting Tomorrow takes a cue from Netflix: pre-paid adhesive FedEx return labels are included with projectors and laptops.

More at:http://www.meetingtomorrow.com/

If you play the stock market daily or at least regularly, this site could be a good source of user-generated content for stock information

WallStPoP is a Web2.0 style website. The stock market news and blog articles are constantly updated via RSS. People read that news and Pop what they like best. If that news rock and receive enough Pops, it is promoted to the Front Page for the millions of visitors to see.

WallStPoP is all about stock market news and blog articles. The site highlights those blogs and articles voted the most popular by the readers, and encourges reader input and contributions. If you play the stock market daily or at least regularly, this site could be a good source of user-generated content for stock information. The site borders on overwhelming the reader with too much information in its sign design and layout. In this new consumer revolution on the web, this is yet another attempt to inform and educate the little guys.
More at:http://www.wallstpop.com/

Rated Tradesmen will help them find a reliable tradesman in UK

Seven out of ten people in the UK say they have been unhappy with the work performed by tradesmen on their homes. This site aims to change that statistic by offering an online service that matches UK tradesmen with customer-submitted jobs. Whether a homeowner in the UK needs a plumber, builder, gardner or carpenter, Rated Tradesmen will help them find a reliable tradesman. They submit a job, get quotes, hire one and then rate them. Simple. They rightly brag about having a 94% average customer rating. They also offer advice for homeowners, post recent ratings and experiences of customers, and rate suppliers as well. If this site doesn't exist in every city in the US, it should.


We're making home improvement better for everyone. There are thousands of honest, reliable tradesmen in the UK. But others aren't so good. How do you find one of the best?

A recommendation from a friend is great when it works. But Rated Tradesmen is even better?we have a massive network of carefully selected tradesmen who get 'rated' by their customers on every single job they complete.
More at:http://www.ratedtradesmen.com/

iQzone is a mobile classifieds service that lets you easily place ads in as easy as snap, send, and sell

iqzone allows anyone with a camera phone to take a photo or video clip of anything to post a classified ad in less than 60 seconds. Sellers can broadcast their mobile ad to a universe of free online classifieds, paid sites and print publications. Buyers can connect with sellers in real-time by setting mobile alerts for items or services they are interested in. They can also search for items using their mobile phone or the web.”

iQzone is a mobile classifieds service that lets you easily place ads in as easy as snap, send, and sell. You can create a classified ads from your mobile phone, take a picture of the item you would like to sell from your mobile or upload one, type in a blurb and selling price and send it into iQzone. Your ad will be displayed all over RSS feeds such as Yahoo! AOL, Google, and Windows Live. You ad will be disributed so that people will recieve updates quicker and they will find exactly what they are looking for in a more efficient manner. Now that people are going bonkers over Facebooks latest decision to allow third party application to be added to member profiles iQzone has taken advantage of this opportunity as well. You can add this featurer to your Facebook account, making it even easier for you and the buyer to connect in a whole new way. iQzone also enables you to share your own ads and even the ads of others, and functions as a mean to cut down time you spend creating and distributing ads to multiple locations and a wide audience.
More at:http://iqzone.com/

P-2-P (peer-to-peer) search engine which believes that searching really ought to be decentralized

Faroo is the p-2-p (peer-to-peer) search engine which believes that searching really ought to be decentralized. Internet architecture itself is decentralized, I personally like to think the WWW stands for Wild, Wild, West. Faroo scours the frontier based on what you, the searcher, thinks is relevant, with out any central institution gun slingin.’ Nothing stands in the way of the information you want and the searcher, because all pages are ranking based on user ranking. In the same manner, those who provide the content are to be sure their content will be found, since all Faroo search results are current, comprehensive and efficient.


“The collection of the whole, exponentially growing Web on a single central system is not successful on the long run. Despite constantly increasing investments in hardware the completeness and freshness of the search index will steadily decrease.
With the concept of a distributed peer-to-peer search engine the same users, who provide the content of the internet assure also, that it is findable too. Thus the search results may be provided more up-to-date, more comprehensive and more cost-efficient.
The searcher becomes a part of FAROO. The architecture is decentralized like the Internet itself. There stands no more central institution between the information source and the searcher.
With the tremendous growth of information the relevance of search results becomes more important. This is assured by an fully automatic ranking of web page content by the users of the peer-to-peer search engine.”
More at:http://www.faroo.com/

A1 Webmarks, stands for Anywhere 1 click away, and is a personal bookmarking site with additional social attributes

A1 Webmarks, (which musn't be confused with the steak sauce) stands for Anywhere 1 click away, and is a personal bookmarking site with additional social attributes. It allows users to categorize and tag personal webmarks for assignation to a topic; most used webmarks, or favorites, can be accessed instantaneously, and all webmarks are alphabetized and checked periodically so that you'll know which ones are no longer accessible. The social aspect of A1 comes in the form of recommendations; based on usage info of all A1 webmarkers, the site will point you in the direction of other sites you may enjoy. A1 also allows its users to see the most popular tags and the corresponding webmarks. There are lists of the most popular webmarks on a specific topic and users can create new ones. to add to your Webmark you have three choices available to you: you can 1) click on the "My Webmarks" button and enter the url of the page you want marked, 2) you can also use the "add" link if you're on the site, or in your own webmarks, or finally you can choose option 3) and download the webmarks bookmarklet. The site requires that you sign up to use it, but overall, it's pretty useful and easy to navigate.

"A webmark marks a location on the web, just like a bookmark marks a location in a book. It's a web page, whose address you want to remember for some reason. Webmarks are often called bookmarks or favorites, especially when the webmark itself is stored offline on your PC."

More at:http://www.a1-webmarks.com/

Geocommons takes Google maps and allows users to graph and chart particular data sets according to geographical location

Geocommons takes Google maps and allows users to graph and chart particular data sets according to geographical location. For instance, if you're interested in knowing how many windmills are in Holland, or if you want an idea of bottled water consumption within the inland Northwest, Geocommons provides the means to create an intelligent map that suits your needs. The site has ready access to a repository of high quality geodata which any one can use with a few simple clicks of their mouse. Demographics, environmental attributes, political info,crime rate, unemployement-- all of this information is available for your use, and it's still expanding. If you're moving for instance, you can use Geocommons to find out about your neighborhood, it's crime rate, schools, traffic, and pollution. You can create your own data sets and export them to Google Earth's KML and you'll get your own smart, customized map. Or you can use Geocommon's workspace and search their data archive adding it to your map as you go. Data is supplied by Geocommon users, NGO's, goverments, and neo-geographers. Currently to create your own Geocommons map you'll needn't spend a cent, however the site will enable private data in the future for an additional cost.

"GeoCommons is a place to explore, create and share intelligent maps and geographic data."

"If you work with geographic information (or have tried to), you know how difficult it can be to find data and how much of a hassle it can be to make data you find usable. On GeoCommons, you have access to a huge repository of high-quality geodata that is ready to use with a few simple clicks. GeoCommons includes a wide range of data in areas such as, population, environment, recreation, schools, crime, employment, traffic, politics, shark attacks and whatever wacky or edifying information the community contributes."
more at:http://www.geocommons.com/

Poly9 Free Earth is a cross-browser, cross-platform 3-D map viewer that comes with tons of great features.

Poly9 Free Earth is a cross-browser, cross-platform 3-D map viewer that comes with tons of great features. They are currently working with applications Twittervision 3D, Flickrvision 3D, and UFO Maps to help create the best platform for you to view your 3-D maps. Features include GeoRSS feed, mapstraction compatibility, solar system planets and maps, embeddable videos, pushpins, mouse control, and the ability to zoom and tilt to get a more enhanced view of your world. The application size is 189k, and developers are permitted to include Poly9 Free Earth on their website since they have a Javascript API. You do need Flash Player 9 to view the maps.

“Poly9 FreeEarth is a cross-browser, cross-platform 3D globe which does not require any download1.
Developers can learn how to include FreeEarth on their own site by reading about the JavaScript API.”
More at:http://freeearth.poly9.com/

XuQa is an online reality game in which you must climb the social ladder to become the most popular and riches person in the XuQa network

XuQa is an online reality game in which you must climb the social ladder to become the most popular and riches person in the XuQa network. There are game different rooms to play the game and you can create your personal own and invite others to play along with you. Users are ranked according to popularity; the more popular you are, the higher you rank. In order to increase your rank you can play poker, become a Xuqalebrity, post in the forums, and challenge friends. To get to the top level, level ten, you need to socialize a lot, and earn a lot of peanuts. Peanuts are the XuQa currency. They can be used to activate premium services on the site. Each XuQa member has their own profile with 5GB of storage space for photos, etc. There's a Crushlist for you to write down your loves without anyone knowing. If your crush adds you to their list a match is made. Actions, such as tinkles, kisses and bitch slaps allow your friends and crushes to know how you feel. To join you've got to register.
"What is XuQa? An exciting network of friends where you socialize and compete to become the Richest and popular person in the game."
More at:http://www.xuqa.com/

Must Watch 7 Websites If You Want To Make Money

Stuart Smith Says: "These 7 Websites Will Earn Me...
300 Maybe 400 Thousand Dollars"
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A Big Opportunity for IT Vendors

In March 2007, the New York-based Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc., a provider of global market intelligence and consultancy services said that small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India were expected to spend around US$8 billion in 2007 to improve their IT infrastructure. This represented a 24% growth over the amount spent in 2006. In the past, some of the issues that constrained most SMBs from investing in IT infrastructure were cost considerations, inability to afford technical experts, and lack of awareness of the value of IT.

Analysts noted that though controlling costs still remained a priority for SMBs, they had begun to realize the opportunities provided by IT. The growth of the Indian economy and revenues of SMBs was a factor that was expected to result in an increase in IT spending among SMBs.

According to AMI, 93% of small businesses (i.e. businesses with 1 to 99 employees) and 86% of medium businesses (i.e. businesses with 100 to 999 employees) showed an increase in revenues in 2006.

Moreover, in a business environment in which they had to compete with larger domestic and international competitors, SMBs were increasingly viewing their investment in IT as a competitive strategy. This presented the IT vendors with a huge opportunity as this market had traditionally been underserved by most vendors.

In March 2007, Intel India (Intel) announced that it had started an initiative across the country called as the “SMB Advantage Program”. Through this initiative Intel aimed to assist its channel partners to increase their business with SMBs. It had identified 160 channel partners (comprising System Integrators, Original Equipment Manufacturers and Retail Partners) from 15 cities across India.

Intel had also identified five key SMB verticals – manufacturing (auto ancillaries, gems and jewelry, pharma and textiles), animation, stock broking and higher education. Intel would provide special training to its partners on the IT needs of these SMBs to help its partners adopt a consultative selling mode and deliver customized solutions. Intel also said that it had started this initiative as the target segment preferred to do business with local firms.

In collaboration with its partners, Intel also planned to host special events for these verticals where customers could purchase a complete solution. It had also tied up with ICICI bank to work with select partners to provide special loans to SMBs to invest in Intel’s solutions.

Some of the other initiatives in the program were focused on helping partners to establish proof of concept centers to help showcase its SMB solutions, and development of case studies along with partners that showcased how Intel’s solutions had made a difference to the SMBs.

There were also reward and recognition programs for outstanding partners. In addition to Intel, other IT giants such as Microsoft Corporation and HP had also adopted aggressive strategies to woo SMBs in India.

However, some analysts opined that these were significant challenges in targeting the SMBs. These businesses were spread throughout the country and across various industries and the IT needs of SMBs in one sector were quite different from that of the other.

The awareness level of the value of IT was still low among a high percentage of small businesses. Other challenges included lack of skilled and competent partners, and wide-scale piracy. The choice of an effective marketing communication strategy, media channel, etc, too posed a considerable challenge due to the diversity among the target segment.
More At:http://www.icmr.icfai.org/business%20Updates/micro%20casestudies/Business%20Strategy/MCBS0014.htm

FaxZero allows you to send a fax to any fax machine in the United States or Canada for free.

FaxZero allows you to send a fax to any fax machine in the United States or Canada for free. You don't need a scanner or fax machine. All you do is send an email with text or attach a PDF, Microsoft Word or an Excel spreadsheet, and FaxZero will fax it. The only hitch for a free fax is that the cover page will have an advertisement on it and you can only send 2 faxes per day up to 3 pages. If you don't want the advertisement, you can still use the site but pay a $1.99 premium and send faxes up to 15 pages. They don't recommend the site for those who send mulitple faxes regularly. The site is simple, easy and smart.

FaxZero lets you send a fax to any fax machine in the United States (including Puerto Rico) or Canada for free. You don't need a fax machine yourself, but you do need a valid e-mail address.
More at:http://www.faxzero.com/

www.zedoffice.net

The Anytime-Anywhere Time and Expense solution built for full integration with QuickBooks. Eliminate the need to re-key time sheets and expense claims into QuickBooks, now your employees and contractors can enter time and expenses through a internet browser, you review and approve and with one click they are downloaded in QuickBooks.
More at:http://www.zedoffice.net/

Exact Search feature to obtain what you want on the first page.

A search engine with a new twist. Check out the Exact Search feature to obtain what you want on the first page. This site is also listed for sale on ebay starting May 28, 2007 and lasts for 10 days. Starting bid $1000. Includes ownership of domain name and the intellectual property filed with the USPTO on the Exact Search feature.
More at:http://www.myexactsearch.com/

Stock Noise enables you to stay informed about what all the noise is about in the Market today.

Stock Noise enables you to stay informed about what all the noise is about in the Market today. Users generate news stories and are also enabled to start and participate in stock communities. As far as the user generated stories are concerned, any user may submit one if he deems it relevant, and then other users vote for the articles and confirm or unconfirm that is of importance. Stock Noise is the new place for investors to congregate and praise, comment upon, and analyze the symbols they work with all day. All stories are tagged so searching with keywords becomes even easier to find exactly what you are looking for. They also feature the most voted sites on their homepage, as well as published material.

Stock Noise is about user generated news! The Stock Noise community submits and votes on all of their favorite stock related stories.
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The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit

When Myra M. Hart, the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice, joined the HBS faculty in 1995, she wondered if the increased emphasis on entrepreneurship both on the broadest social level and at HBS in particular had changed the career paths of HBS alumni.

"In the early 1980s, [HBS professor] Howard Stevenson had done a survey of alumni to analyze the career directions they'd followed," Hart told New Business. "He believed that although many viewed HBS as a training ground for Fortune 500 CEOs, it was also a hotbed of entrepreneurship-that many alumni were entrepreneurs. He found that more than 30 percent of alumni called themselves 'self-employed.'" Hart's subsequent research revealed that more than 60 percent of alumni defined themselves as, more specifically, "entrepreneurs," and more than 40 percent were involved in entrepreneurial ventures at various points in their careers. "I got to thinking that it might be useful to talk to alumni who are just at the moment when they're ready to start a business, and I interviewed many of them individually," Hart says. "As I did that, I saw a need for a program that dealt specifically with 'how you do it.'"

Her ideas resonated with then-president of the School's alumni board, Ed Hajim (MBA '64), an accomplished entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and businessman. Hajim felt that such a program was so critical to the needs of alumni that he offered a unique financing option to anyone considering the program: He would provide a significant portion of the fee, and participants would only need to pay it back if they were ultimately successful in their venture. "I'm a big proponent of lifelong learning," Hajim says. "I believe that the educational process doesn't end with graduation-in many ways that's when it begins."

This was the beginning of what would become The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit, an Executive Education program designed specifically for HBS alumni. Geared toward those who have recently launched an entrepreneurial venture, or who are considering doing so in the near future, The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit is an intensive three-and-a-half-day program that provides participants with nuts-and-bolts perspectives on how to get their venture started.

Participants are matched in groups with fellow alumni who are interested in similar industries. They are encouraged to present their business concept to the group, and during formal and informal group meetings they exchange advice. "We tell them that this is their board of directors," Hart says. "They meet with these people every morning. Each person shares the issues he or she is facing, and the group spends 20 or 30 minutes addressing it." Faculty members facilitate these meetings, but they don't tell participants what to do. The strength of the program lies in this community of peers. By discussing the challenges they are trying to overcome, participants learn from each other and teach each other.

In addition to the board of director's meeting, each day's schedule includes case study discussions and information sessions presented by experts on topics such as legal issues for entrepreneurs, angel financing, and business-plan creation. "We deal with really practical stuff," Hart emphasizes. "These people are contemplating a very big commitment, and they have so many questions." Those questions tend to follow a similar pattern: What kind of legal firm do I need? Do I need a lawyer now? How do I protect my intellectual property? How do I go about bringing in partners and arranging compensation? Should I give everybody equity, should I give options? How much working capital should I think about? Should I make my projections conservative or best-guess-should I create four scenarios? "Participants build a network of resources and professional contacts," Hart says, "and they can continue to draw from this long after they complete the program." Hajim adds, "In three-and-a-half days you get the complete 'playbook' for becoming an entrepreneur."

Many of the prospective entrepreneurs have gone on to run successful ventures. Hart estimates that for every 40 individuals who take the program each year, 30 will go on to run a business. ......
"An Interview with Linda Applegate

Lynda M. Applegate, the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, took over as chair of The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit (ETK) this year. Professor Applegate spoke with New Business about some of the ways in which the program will evolve under her leadership.

New Business: What are some of the new directions in which ETK may be headed?

Professor Applegate: Through the generosity of several alumni, we've gotten funding to create an international version of ETK. We are currently exploring opportunities to create a Latin America program. This will enable us to extend our research on entrepreneurship and building new ventures in very turbulent times to other parts of the world where entrepreneurship is critical to the development of the economy. We'll also learn how entrepreneurship is progressing in various regions, and what some of the issues are that we can take back to the ETK classroom at HBS and our entrepreneurial management curriculum in the MBA Program to provide a better understanding of the diverse implications of global entrepreneurship. Additionally, we'll bring in various academics from universities in Latin America, and after the program, we'll work with them to push forward research on global entrepreneurship and the use of some of the tools that we've been developing in other parts of the world. So this will be an exciting exchange of insights

New Business: I understand ETK will also be expanding its outreach to alumni

Professor Applegate: Yes, we're developing a lifelong learning program through the Alumni Office and HBS Publishing. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about this idea from ETK participants who want to stay in touch with each other and the School.

New Business: In what form might this lifelong learning concept be offered?

Applegate: That's still under discussion. Currently, the ETK participants develop an e-mail list and use it to keep in touch. We are very interested in building on the obvious interest for continuing to share perspectives and insights.

New Business: What has been some of the recent feedback on the Tool Kit?

Applegate: It's a very popular program, and the most recent session was extremely well rated by participants. We're also in the process of surveying alumni who've taken the program, to better understand how it has helped them with their carriers."
More at:http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurship/newbusiness/2003fall_2.html

Google Switch Could be Next Big Thing

"According to Nomura phone analyst Richard Windsor, the company has confirmed the project. 'Google has come out of the closet at the CeBIT trade fair admitting that it is working on a mobile phone of its own,' he said in a note. 'This is not going to be a high-end device but a mass market device aimed at bringing Google to users who don't have a PC,'" directtraffic.org reports.
Meanwhile, engadget.com also claims to have new info about the device, which it refers to as the Google Switch. The site even includes what could be a screen image of the phones contact program.

Google corporate, however, continues to neither confirm nor deny the report.
More at:http://www.directtraffic.org/OnlineNews/Google_admits_to_mobile_phone_plan_18094880.html

Customer Relationship Managment Tool

Relenta is a new CRM (customer relationship management) tool for small business. This hosted (on-demand) software includes email, contact manager, shared calendar, and email newsletter marketing -- all within "one elegant Web 2.0 application." They employ a (now familiar) "Less is more" approach. They call it the "90/10 rule": "Designed for usability and efficiency, Relenta CRM achieves 90 percent of the functionality commonly required by small business users with only 10 percent of the application weight."

Relenta is a winning combination of the power of salesforce.com and simplicity of Highrise from 37signals. It also includes one killer feature that none of us can live without but yet no other CRMs offers -- good old email:

"The majority of sales and customer service work is conducted via email. In case of traditional CRM systems, most of the business knowledge assets are trapped inside email messages within individual user accounts. Relenta CRM solves this problem by associating email history with customer records and making it accessible to all team members."

Relenta extends my website into the sales process by letting me automatically capture leads from webform, and assign them to sequential email followups/autoresponder, like Aweber.com or VerticalResponse.
More at:http://relenta.com/

Top Temporary Mailbox services It Will Help You.....

Mailinator is one of the best and top rated disposable email services that gives you a temporary mailbox on the following address format e.g. something@mailinator.com
MyTrashMail is another good temporary mail service that gives you a mailbox in the address format e.g. something@trashymail.com and also gives you secure temporary mailbox if you signup
MailExpire stands out in the crowd by giving you the option to have a temporary inbox ranging from 12 hours expiry to as long as 3 months
TemporaryInbox is yet another simple and easy to use temporary email service that gives you an email address in different formats
MailEater gives you a free temporary email inbox in the format e.g. something@MailEater.com
Jetable not only allows you to set the life span of your temporary email inbox but also allows you to forward the mails in your temporary inbox to your real email address
SpamBox gives you a temporary email address in the format e.g. something@spambox.us and also allows you to set the lifespan of your inbox
GuerillaMail lets you generate a temporary email which expires in a time of 15 minutes and also tell you how to offer a temporary email service on your site.
SpamHole provides you a 2 hour long temporary email inbox at the address format e.g. something@spamhole.com
10MinuteMail generates an easy 10 minute email inbox for your temporary email needs .
More at:http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/05/27/top-20-temporary-and-disposable-email-services

Resources For Entreprenuers

Two weeks ago, The New York Times published a nice introductory article on how to get started with a small business. Author Barbara Whitaker notes that about ten percent of small businesses fail each year:

Success comes with education, careful planning and adequate cash flow, specialists say. And it has never been easier to lay the groundwork for starting a small business. Many tools are available on the Internet and at libraries to aid aspiring entrepreneurs. Whole magazines are devoted to the subject.

Whitaker’s article lists a number of web-based resources for would-be small business owners, including:

The U.S. Small Business Administration web site
SCORE (the Service Corps of Retired Executives) offers business advice to entrepreneurs.
The Small Business Development Centers provide “management assistance to current and prospective small business owners”. For an example of the assistance available, visit the San Joaquin Delta College SBDC web site.
Work.com offers a variety of how-to guides for running a small busines.
e-Venturing bills itself as “the entrepreneur’s trusted guide to high growth.
For advice about entrepreneurship from others who have been there before, visit StartupNation.
Bplans.com features business plan software and free sample business plans, along with other expert advice.
CCH has an amazing variety of ready-to-use templates and documents, as well as links to official government forms.
The U.S. Library of Congress offers The Entrepreneur’s Reference Guide to Small Business Information.
For more about these resources, and for an extended discussion, please read the entire article.

I’m under the impression that the failure rate for small businesses applies to those with employees. If you follow Andréa’s advice and become a consultant, or if you take the route I’m pursuing and work as a wholly independent freelancer, I think the survivability rates are much higher.

Obviously, this is more information than you’ll need if you’re simply trying to make money from a hobby. But if you have bigger dreams, if you’d like to boost your income by starting your own business, these sites are a good place to begin your research.

[The New York Times: Small Business 101: How to Get Started].


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Illumio is bringing you all the web information content you care about and delivering it to you quicker than you’d ever imagine

Illumio is bringing you all the web information content you care about and delivering it to you quicker than you’d ever imagine. Stop manually checking your social networking websites, your blogs and other content providers, let illmio update you on all the RSS feeds you belong to, and furthermore, let them discover new content for you that you’ll love. Illumios unique alogorithym for new content discovery and user matching. They search through your documents stored in My Documents, sent emails, contacts from Outlook and Thunderbird, what you have added as favorites, bookmarks, and general browser history. Illumio cares about your privacy, which is why they conduct research all from your PC, so you are protected. You can join communities of others who love the same web content that you love, and initiate a Q&A on any given feed to connect with other subscribers.

“illumio is a new way to stay informed and connected in a web world that is exploding with social networks, blogs, news, and other content. illumio frees you from manually tracking everything you care about on the Web: instead, illumio monitors the feeds you choose and groups you join and delivers to you only what's important to you. Because illumio runs on your PC, illumio can privately determine what information matches your interests and then alert you directly on your desktop.”
More at:http://www.illumio.com/

Home Commission

HomeCommission.com is uniquely designed to save both home sellers and buyers sales commission cost when buying or selling their home.

There are two type of auctions sellers and buyers can create:
Listing Commission Auction: Listing Commission auction created by sellers invites real estate agents to bid the lowest listing commission on the sale of their home. Lowest bidder wins, and is able to contact sellers to get their business.
* Cash Back Auction: Cash Back auction created by buyers invites real estate agents to bid the maximum cash back on the commission from the sales transaction of their new home. Highest bidder wins with this type of auction.
More at:http://www.homecommission.com/

Make Money With Pet Parties

Linda Franzblau began the party as she always did: by introducing herself to the guests; telling them about Petlane and its products for dogs, cats and birds; and talking about her own dog, Rocket, and her cats, Dot and Dash. Then she came to the point where every party differs--meeting the guests and learning about their needs. She asked each of them to introduce themselves and talk about their pets. A woman named Katy mentioned she had an older dog that she used to walk at night, but she couldn't anymore because the dog's eyesight was failing. Franzblau instantly knew how to help. As she handed out catalogs and order forms to customers, Franzblau took a moment to point Katy toward one of Petlane's newer products, the Pet Lamp, which attaches around a dog's neck and acts as a headlight. Katy's reaction? "She said, ‘It sounds wonderful; it looks wonderful. Sign me up,'" says Franzblau.

Her passion for helping pets like Katy's dog is the reason Franzblau, 53, decided to become a Petlane pet advisor in February 2006. She tries to help customers by not only finding products to fill each pet's needs, but also educating their owners on better pet care through the discussions and games at her parties. And Franzblau may be making money as the expert at her parties, but she's also receiving a valuable education. "Every day, I'm learning different things to make my pets' lives healthier," she says.


The Petlane business also allows Franzblau to mentor other entrepreneurs as she adds new pet advisors across the country to her sales team. She encourages and educates her team by having a group phone call each week and holding monthly training sessions online. Franzblau and her team also educate themselves through Petlane's annual conventions and its book clubs, in which they read a new book each month that's pertinent to their business.

While her Petlane business fulfills many of her passions, Franzblau also had practical motivations for getting started. She had just been laid off from her job in marketing and product development and needed a way to support herself and her daughter. Luckily, she has found that her passion and her pocketbook can go hand in hand, especially when that passion is part of a $38 billion pet industry in the U.S. She expects to easily make six figures in the next two years, all while doing what she loves.
More at:http://www.petlane.com/

Creative marketing goes a long way when you are an entrepreneur

Creative marketing goes a long way when you are an entrepreneur.

Take Jim Kukral. He is one of the most creative people I know in the online world. He’s always coming up with new ideas for getting attention online. The fact that I consider him a friend and he’s located here in the Cleveland, Ohio area makes it all the better. Who says everything innovative has to happen on the coasts, right?

I watch with interest whenever Jim launches a new site (he has 80 websites). For instance, he started Awesome Million, an entertaining little diversion where you can create a page for someone awesome. Then there’s something a tad more businesslike, called Ask the Blogger. There you can ask him a question about blogs for business and he’ll give you advice.

But his latest site is interesting in yet another way. It is called: I Pay Too Much for Hosting.
So I asked Jim about it. In a recent email exchange, this is what Jim told me:

Question: Jim, why did you start IPayTooMuchforHosting.com?
Jim Kukral: Rackspace came to me to test out being a preferred partner. They wanted to see how a marketer could take their product and spread it around and see if it could generate business. I said sure, but I wanted to do it creatively.

Being a customer of Rackspace for years already, I was already passionate about the service. You could say I’m their biggest fan already, so taking on this project was easy to accept, and fun.

Question: What does the name really mean?
Jim Kukral: I came up with the name because it’s true.

I pay too much for hosting — but it’s worth it.

Rackspace is for people who don’t want hosting problems, ever. It’s the Bentley of web hosts. It solves problems for you by not giving you problems.

So I figured, why not tell people how much I pay for hosting and tell them why.

Question: I know you’re an expert in affiliate marketing — but this seems to go beyond typical affiliate marketing. It’s almost as if you’re becoming a customer evangelist.

Jim Kukral: That’s exactly what I have become. Rackspace realizes that small businesses are a great target for them, and they’re taking a unique approach to marketing by asking their biggest fans (me) to go out and become customer evangelists for them and giving us tools to help spread the word. I know for a fact that the CEO of Rackspace has personally reviewed my efforts so far. They get it. Sometimes in order to sell to your target audience, you have to let your target audience talk to each other and let them sell for you.

Plus, with this exclusive 15% off discount they’ve given me, I’m able to offer small businesses the incentive to at least get a free estimate.

Question: I notice that a big part of the site is your custom video message, which lets your personality come out (not to mention being where I learned you have 80 websites!).

Jim Kukral: Yes, I’m using video in my site to help convince people. Not a lot of marketers are using video yet. I’m finding that by using a personal video message I’m able to help people understand more about me and the offer. It’s natural — more like a conversation where someone would tell you why they’re recommending a product. I suggest video for more small businesses.

Check out Jim’s latest creative endeavor: I Pay Too Much for Hosting
More at:http://www.smallbiztrends.com/

Make Money Through Selling Imported Games Via Direct Marketing

After working in product development and marketing for a game company, Gail DeGiulio, 49, started a consulting business to help early stage companies. Through this business, she met Matt Molen and Jeremy Young, 33 and 35, respectively, who were importing European games into the U.S. and translating them into English, but were struggling to get their products into stores. Then DeGiulio approached them with the idea of using direct sales to sell games, and it clicked instantly. "On the retail shelf, regardless of what your product line is, you're competing against a bunch of other boxes," says DeGiulio. "We knew this was a product line that would benefit from being experienced in someone's home."

Though the trio thought they had a great idea, they took their time making sure they were right. They spent the beginning of 2004 researching the direct-sales industry by hiring an industry expert, attending other companies' parties and making sure they could make money for both their company and their consultants. "If you can't figure out a compensation model that works to make it worthwhile for the consultants," says Molen, "you shouldn't be in direct selling." Then, starting in summer 2004, the three partners spent six months holding parties in their homes and at their office, testing prototypes of their games, figuring out how the parties should work and making sure people would want to come back for more. Finally, in January 2005, they felt confident enough in their products and their plan to begin offering a direct-sales opportunity.


Now Bellevue, Washington-based SimplyFun offers its own line of games, puzzles, puppets and other family activities. The exclusivity of the products is essential to direct-sales success, according to Molen and DeGiulio, because the products don't have to compete with any others and the consultants don't have to compete with retail stores. "We want to make it easy for the consultants to be successful," says DeGiulio. To that end, they provide training in person, online, by video and through conference calls; choose not to charge their consultants for their website or require them to keep any inventory; and offer incentives to encourage their consultants to reach certain goals.

More at:http://simplyfun.com/

Multichannel Ads Exchange Network

ADS-click is describing themselves as “innovative and disruptive.” Though, I completely agree that they are innovating, I can only surmise that they are disrupting your “regularly scheduled programming” with unintrusive ad campaigns. Actually, most of what ADS-click has to offer are voluntary skype-me buttons (both SKY-Click and SKIPI) which combine costumer service and voIP. They also offer advertiseing on two levels, white label and publishing. White label enables you to harness advanced contextual and search sponsored links inclusive backoffine and adsever capabilities. On the other hand, Publisher offers traditional text-based ad links. SKY-click is a voIP services which integrates with your SKYPE, allowing users to click the button so that your company may call them back. Likewise, there is also a few button which you can utilize on you site, your blog and in your email which allows users to initiate voIP straight from your site.

“ADS-click is an innovative and disruptive company developing technologies that unite online advertising and voice over IP.
By integrating voice with advertising, ADS-click has found a customer base all around the world. ADS-click supplies services to large media groups, small and medium sized companies and individuals who wish to monetize their editorial content and knowledge. The company's search and contextual advertising technology is used by major Internet players in Europe, Japan and Australia and serves over 3 billion pages views per month.”
more ; http://www.ads-click.com/

With Monetize Media, you will now be able to host videos f ree of charge, and then generate revenue through subscriptions

Don´t let YouTube and Brightcove be the only ones monetizing off the videos you create! With Monetize Media, you will now be able to host videos (and likewise, channels) free of charge, and then generate revenue through subscriptions, advertising, downloads, and syndication. The ad rolls are focused on the target audience, meaning they work in context with the video they are viewing. Monetize Media promises that monetizing your videos is as easy as drag, drop and monetize, so you will be receiving complete end-to-end solution, including encoding, customization, deliver and payment. This way, you will get your content to market even faster. You can elect a few different business models, PPV, Subscription or Free with Targeted Ads, and all of your content will be protected with DRM.


“Monetize Media, Inc. is a dynamic and rapidly growing technology solution provider for the digital media. We provide complete end to end solution for the media, entertainment and enterprise customers. We help our clients to create, manage, market and monetize media, direct-to-consumers by delivering world class broadband online services.

more ;http://www.monetizemedia.com/

Design your own T-shirt and sell it directly from your websites via our widget

Tshirt Takeaway is the new way to create tshirts and then get your design out on the market. You can sell your tshirts directly from your websites, blogs, and popular social networking sites, including MySpace, Piczo, Hi5, and others via a widget you can embed. Likewise, you can browse and shop for tshirts on the site featured in their online store. If you like a tshirt design, you can even grab their widget and place it on your site! You have some customization features for your tee, all the standard font, size, color and alignment, upload photos, and various tshirt types. Tshirt Takeaway will handle all of the payment and shipping, you can negotiate how much commission you will take.


“Design your own T-shirt and sell it directly from your websites via our widget. We handle the payments, make the T-shirts and send them to your customers. You decide how much commission you earn, come back and collect it.
More at:http://www.tshirttakeaway.com/

Photobucket

Photobucket, founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo-sharing site. VCs including Insight Venture Partners and Trinity Ventures funded the company.

According to comScore, January 2007 report, Photobucket has 17.6 million unique monthly visitors in the U.S. and over 27 Million unique monthly visitors worldwide. The site has over 40 million registered users. According to Reuters, Murdoch's Newscorp (owner of MySpace), is all set to acquire Photobucket for an estimated price of $250 million. Photobucket, with close to 3 billion photos, is the # 1 photo site in the world.
More at:http://photobucket.com/

CoRank

When CoRank launched in March it was a social news ranking site (like Digg) that filtered news based on your sources -- people whose opinion you value. Or, as CoRank founder Rogelio Bernal Andreo told us, it was "yet another boring bookmarking site." Today, the site relaunched with a new focus: allowing users to create their own, branded social news and bookmarking site based on CoRank's technology using a set of simple online tools.

Rogelio, who is also the founder of eGrupos, one of the largest Spanish-speaking social networks on the web, said that a trial run of the new CoRank on the Spanish version revealed some demand for this type of build-your-own-digg service (Rumoreame is an example of a customized CoRank running on the Spanish language version that is getting some use).

More at:http://www.corank.com/

Fly In 10$

Europeans have become used to flights for under 10 euros or British pounds, thanks to RyanAir and EasyJet, which use secondary and tertiary airports, and which provide barebones operations. Will a new airline do the same for the USA?

Skybus, which is launching its inaugural flights this week from Columbus, Ohio, to other secondary airports near major markets, such as Portsmouth, N.H. (near Boston), and Burbank, Calif. (near L.A.), says it is setting aside a minimum of 10 seats available for $10 on every flight (not including taxes and fees of up to $7.90, and the 9/11 security fee of $2.50). Reports are that it has sold 200,000 pre-flight tickets.
More at:http://soundmoneytips.com/article/36149

How They Become Entreprenuer....

Dappen, 39, was attracted to Two Sisters Gourmet in particular because of the unique way the business is run. At her in-home parties, instead of simply talking about the company's gourmet food products and passing around samples, she holds interactive cooking classes in which guests prepare various dishes using Two Sisters Gourmet ingredients. "People go to home parties so they can socialize," she points out, and getting together in the kitchen allows for just that. Home parties have the added benefit of showing the guests exactly how the Two Sisters Gourmet products can be used--and that anyone is capable of using them.

Though she knew she would enjoy it, Dappen did not have big plans for her Two Sisters Gourmet business. As a stay-at-home mom, she was simply looking for a way to make ends meet when she had fewer clients from her telecommunications consulting job, and she thought the parties would be a way to earn an extra $500 a month. She hadn't considered the other side of the business, though: sponsoring new consultants. A year after becoming the company's first consultant in upstate New York, Dappen now has 61 people in her downline, which has boosted her expectations for how much she can earn. Says Dappen, "I have every intention for this to be a six-figure income for me in a year."


Now that she sees her business's great potential, she's found creative ways to attract new customers and new consultants. She wears her Two Sisters Gourmet name tag wherever she goes so people will ask her what it is, and she has helped a variety of organizations with Two Sisters Gourmet fundraisers. After her team met its sales and recruitment goals last November, the corporate office sent celebrity chef Jon Ashton to host a cooking show in Dappen's hometown of Webster, New York. The event attracted attention from TV networks and the local newspaper.

Dappen's direct-selling business has greatly exceeded her original expectations and given her a chance to have a taste of her catering dream, all while allowing her to concentrate on what she feels is most important. "I'm able to work my business around my family, not my family around my business," she says. "That's what I enjoy most."
More at:http://www.twosistersgourmet.com/

Unype.com is an application that allows users to navigate images of cities, taken from Google Earth

Now you can tour the virtual world with your friends. Unype.com is an application that allows users to navigate images of cities, taken from Google Earth, as an animated character. The application, combined with the animated navigation function, links with Skype, enabling users to talk to other people using Unype. Therefore, users can walk the streets of Paris together, or stop and take a look at the Grand Canyon. Users can find out where their friends are located, and immediately be brought to there location, either as a follower of their movements, or as a leader. They also have the ability to see everyone using Unype at that moment, and can transport to a new persons location, and see if they would like to talk together on Skype. Best of all the application is free.


“Use your existing Skype account for a multi-user Google Earth experience.”
More at:http://www.unype.com/

Share Your World With TileFile.com

Are you tired of having to distinguish between a video, picture, and audio file when saving to your computer, or while organizing flies and folders? With TileFile you can combine all the pictures, videos and audio files into one folder, in the order you want. Users have access to all their files online in their account. It allows the user to create a digital postcard of a file/clip. For example, you can take a video clip from your files, write information on the virtual back of the clip for all to see, and share the clip with another user, who can also see what you wrote on the back and add comments. The files you create can be private, shared, or public; whereas, if they are public, any user can take a copy of your file and place it in their file, website, or blog. There is no download or software required, and the application is free. All user accounts can be accessed from any computer.

“TileFile.com is the home base from which you create and share "TileFiles". TileFiles are much more beautiful and social than emails, but just as easy to manage. Think of TileFiles as the "Postcards of the Internet". They can be private, shared, or public. This is a much richer way of sharing your photos, videos and animations (including Flash). You can mix your own TileFiles with TileFiles from another people and then share that mixture. You can take TileFiles from someone elses mixture and include them in your own. You can also publish TileFiles on web pages, blogs, and in your favorite communities. Instead of an old fashioned website of forms and links, we've designed TileFile to feel more like a desktop application. However you don't need to download any software, which means you can log in from anywhere. The way TileFile brings you and your friends together is simple and colorful. It may change the way you "Share Your World™".”
More at:http://www.tilefile.com/

All IT Jobs At One Place

Odin Jobs is about cutting out all the time you spend looking at the hundreds of job boards around the net, letting you access a great number of posting from one portal. Odin aggregates job postings from over 1000 sources daily to maximize you job hunting experience, saving you time as you will be viewing over 20,000 jobs a day. You are also garunteed that you won’t be viewing any spam or irrelevant jobs, given that Odin has developed a processor that evaluates fitness in terms of your feild, looking at language among other factors. This also means you won´t be using keywords, Odin’s “artificial intelligence” will sort it out for you.

“Odin collects jobs from job boards, corporate websites, groups etc. At last count Odin is collecting over 20,000 jobs from 1000 of sources every day.
To fulfill the key part of our mission - get the "Right" It job, Odin features a matching technology that sifts through all the jobs and selects the right ones based on your qualification, experience and preference.
Instead of using keywords and displaying 1000's of weak to irrelevant jobs, Odin employs language processing and artificial intelligence to determine the fitness of a job for you and shows you only the right ones.
We want you to find the right IT job. We want to make your search easier and faster and more relevant.”
More at:http://www.odinjobs.com/

Retailmenot

Collaborative system for finding, sharing and ranking coupon codes for online stores.

Users can get easy discounts with over 25,000 coupon codes and growing.

Also features an OSX Widget and Firefox extension.
More at:http://www.retailmenot.com/

Ideas On Business

Many of us consult mentors and business coaches and most of us keep journals. All of us bounce ideas off of friends and collegues. This is an experiment in combining all of those actions together in one place.

The purpose of this community is to bring together a group of people who want to see their business ideas turn into something real, a success. By collaborating with friends and peers and writing about our successes and failures at each step of the way, we can create a means...
More at:http://ideasonbusiness.com/default.aspx

Zipingo is the online place to find the cream of the crop in terms of local businesses.

Zipingo is the online place to find the cream of the crop in terms of local businesses. Search reviews to find the best local resturaunts, even colleges and universities. Imagine this as your online guidebook to the best places in your neighborhood, or better yet when you go outside of your comfort zone and travel. Find out what others have to say before you decide to settle at an italian resturaunt, read reviews on a cleaning service before you hire. Zipingo was created by a team of Intuit employees, yes, formerly those who worked on your Turbo Tax! May be completely unrelated, but these people know that your daily decisions affeft your finances in a big way, and thus should be fully informed before deciding to purchase or use a service.

In their own words:
“You may be wondering why Intuit, a company known for financial software since the mid 80s, would create something like Zipingo. Well, you're not alone. We’re asked the same question by our co-workers – along with “how’d you come up with that name?”

The connection is not immediately apparent, though the explanation is simple. Intuit was founded and operates on a core principle — watch what people do in their everyday lives and help them do it better. That's why we come to work everyday. It's amazing how much of what people do daily affects their finances.
The Zipingo team is an entrepreneurial bunch of Intuit employees who has come together to solve problems for both consumers and small businesses.
More at:http://www.zipingo.com/portal/home.psml

SimplifyThis.com is an intuitive, web-based application that lets you easily invoice your clients and get paid faster online.

SimplifyThis.com is an intuitive, web-based application that lets you easily invoice your clients and get paid faster online. It’s specifically designed for freelancers, small businesses, independent professionals, and service providers who want to free themselves from complex accounting software, so there will be no more forgotten invoices, no software to install and no help manuals to read. Best of all, since SimplifyThis.com is a web-based application, you can use it from home, from the library, or from any other computer on the internet.

Key Features
* Intuitive and easy to use
* Customizable to your business
* Send invoices using email * Accept payments online
* Track payments
* Record one-time and recurring charges

The application is currently FREE as a trial.
More at:http://www.simplifythis.com/

Xurrency is a new tool 2.0 that allows you to convert currency online and offers you the exchange rate information

Xurrency allows you to convert currency online with web 2.0 style. If you want to keep up to date on what the latest rates are, you can even subscribe to the various feeds. You can get the rates for a currency based on one of it, or in the inverse. You can do specific exchanges from the homepage or using the correct syntax URL. It’s all free, unless you are planning on use it for commercial purposes. Currently there are 42 different country currencies available, and that number will increase with time. So if you want to check what the latest exchange rates are before you travel or while you’re abroad, go to Xurrency and make the quick conversion.


“Xurrency is a new tool 2.0 that allows you to convert currency online and offers you the exchange rate information.”



It’s an easy and attractive way to find out currency conversions. RSS feeds of currency exchanges are a unique thing that people will find useful to keep up to date with money trends if they work internationally.
More at:http://xurrency.com/

Primofeed is a feed service that enables bloggers and content owners to monetize their web site.

People make a living from writing a blog. This service helps make that happen. Primofeed is a feed service that enables bloggers and content owners to monetize their web site. The site serves all major blog hosting companies, and all the blogger has to do is sign up as a PrimoFeed publisher, insert their ad code widget onto your blog, Primofeed runs targeted ads, and you get commissions when users buy their products. Now, what was not clear from reading the site was whether you only get a commission when an actual purchase is made from a reader of your blog (how do they track that?), or if you get a commission if someone clicks on their advertisement. They need to be more clear and upfront about that. Otherwise, if you are a regular blogger with a high traffic volume, take advantage of that and make blogging your career or at least a nice source of supplemental income.

As They say:
PrimoFeed enables you to monetize from your web site by displaying relevant products ads. It's a new advertising model approach by delivering ads in a form of a unique badge. This rich delivery system enhances click through rates and the bottom line impact of your web site's revenue earning potential.
More at:http://primofeed.com/

For Playing Game In Virtual World

Runescape is an extremely popular 3D online role playing game serving more than one million subscribers. The game serves people all over the world, but their core audience is in english-speaking countries. The game itself allows people to sign up (for free) and control a character. They then meet other characters in this virtual world and can choose to develop their character's skills and power during their "quests". Admittedly, this whole game world is foreign to me.
More at:http://www.runescape.com/