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| ID: | 610 |
| Title: | Weird Odd News |
| URL: | http://newsnotwanted.blogspot.com/ |
| Category: | News & Media: Odd News & Satire |
| Description: | News that nobody wants to hear about. Kids behaving like brats, people doing stupid things, obnoxious politicians and an occasional techie post. |
| Startups To Watch - JetRadar - Tue, 22 May 2012 07:27:00 +0000 |
| Bitrix24.Com - Worlds FirstSocial IntranetThat's Free For Small Businesses. The world is changing. There's no denying that. In the field of air travel, probably the most notable innovation is the emergence of low-cost airlines and online ticket sales. Both have cheapened the cost of plane tickets quite dramatically, and airlines unable to keep up were forced to close up shop. JetRadaris a startup that aspires to continue this innovation and push it even further, making cheap airfare even cheaper. By now, you may have already heard about Expedia, Orbitz, CheapFlights and other online ticket sellers that offer cheap airline tickets. But what you perhaps don't know is that individual airlines don't necessarily go about pitching their best deals to price-comparison websites and stand the chance of losing potential sales to competing carriers. Essentially, if customers want the best possible deals, they should visit their corporate websites. This can be time-consuming and particul arly labor-intensive for the consumer. JetRadar, in an effort to provide a one-stop portal for everything cheap, cheaper and cheapest in the airfare space, sifts through exclusive deals available via 35 agencies and 728 airlines and make the data available for public consumption. The founders of JetRadar have beta tested the idea in smaller geographies such as Russia, and in no time emerged a clear leader in the cheap airfare arena. (JetRadar operates asAviaSales.Ruin Russia.) Because of this phenomenal success, the company will be branching out in Thailand and Hong Kong this year, while at the same time launching a global portal that will be competing directly with more established cheap airfare providers. If JetRadar proves successful, cheap airline tickets will definitely become a lot cheaper. [Via -PickyDomains.com] |
| Seven Little Known Online Services That Can Help Your Business Save Money. - Tue, 15 May 2012 08:48:00 +0000 |
| Everybody likes things that save them money or are, better yet, 100% free. Here is a list of seven online services that help entrepreneurs and small businesses save money that you've most likely never heard about. 1.Bitrix24.Com Corporate intranets can set companies back tens of thousands of dollars. Fortunately, businesses consisting of less than 12 employees have the option to receive intranet from Bitrix24.com at absolutely no cost. It provides fully functional CRM, planner, project and task manager, as well as many other convenient elements at no charge. All these features are also available for lager businesses of over 12 employees at an affordable $99 per month. 2.Logaster.Com All businesses require a logo. Sadly, a single logo put together by a professional designer can cost hundreds of dollars. Crowdsourcing will still cost a business a hundred dollars or more for a professional logo. In contrast, Logaster is a free of charge logo creator with extra features available such as business cards and fax cover sheets for a monthly subscription of only $5. 3.PickyDomains.com Searching for fresh, new ideas for domain names but all the attractive ones are already being used? Some people choose to expend thousands of dollars to use branding agencies like cyberquarters. PickDomains.com offers risk free naming so itїs not necessary for you to dish out large sums of money anymore. Just filling out what you need (domain name, or slogan) sends your request to our more than 55,000 registered contributers who will approach you with hundreds of proposals. It is only $50 to accept one of their offers. If you decide against them there is no charge to you. 4.JetRadar.com Most people are aware that Expidia, Orbits, and CheapFlights.com offer large savings to their customers on airfare. What most people are unaware of is that JetRadar.com offers airline tickets at even lower prices. Being a meerasearchengine, JetRadar processes your requests through every major travel agency, flight site and 728 different airlines. Airlines are known for making special deals available only through their corporate website in attempts to attract their customers away from other ticket providers. JetProvider scans for special sales by airlines and makes them accessible to anyone. 5.RetailMeNot.com For those who enjoy shopping online and want to save on their purchases, coupons are the can help you achieve tremendous savings. As a social network specializing in coupon sharing, RetailMeNot allows its users to receive large discounts even when shopping on famous online stores. Users can also find out what current online trends are by searching for top rated coupons. In other words, for those that like keeping up to date with fashion, RetailMeNot informs you as to what trends other people interested in. The RetailMeNot newsletter also sends registered users the most recent updates on coupons. 6.SideJobTrack.com SideJobTrack is a free invoicing tool designed for part-time contractors which is perfect for those who want to oversee several jobs at once. Particularly with online work, it can be a task to keep track of payments for a multitude of jobs. SideJobTrack makes the job simpler. As a job tracker that is web-based it has elements focused at eliminating problems with project management, invoicing, and reporting. 7.iSpionage.com Those with online competition may ask themselves; how much money their competitors spend on Google Adwords, which keywords create the most visitors for their website or, how many people visit their website every month. iSpionage.com provides answers to all of these questions and more. iSpionage offers a free account with all services previously stated and 3 searches a day or a paid version.  |
| Millionare Writers - Randy Cassingham - Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:18:00 +0000 |
Need PerfectSoftware Name? Try Crowdsourcing. http://www.thisistrue.com/ Randy Cassingham is one of the first online publishers: his This is True column went online in 1994. It's his full-time gig: over the years, it has brought him several million dollars in income, and he lives on 45 acres in western Colorado, where he looks at gorgeous snow-covered mountains from his home office. "TRUE" (as Cassingham calls it) is biting social commentary, using weird news as its vehicle. It's funny and has a loyal following: thousands pay $24/year to get the full column by e-mail each week. Tens of thousands get a free sampler. It might be the first example of an online "fremium" business model. In the early years, he turned down two unsolicited syndication deals to bring the column to newspapers -- turning them down because he didn't want to give up control of his work, he says. Good move: now he's compiling his archives into Kindle books, where he can get a 70% royalty on sales, rather than the 12.5% that Dutton (part of the Penguin Group) pays him when it turned another of his websites into a book. And it's working: Cassingham told me that in the first two weeks ofKindle book sales, the five volumes he has posted so far earned more than $1,400 in royalties from Amazon. "I'm boggled," he told me by e-mail. "Imagine if I actually concentrated on this income pillar. Or had more than five books available. Or I sent one or more titles out for review somewhere, or advertised, or did ANY kind of promotion to anyone other than my existing readers!" Imagine indeed! Then he realized that a throw-away human interest feature he includes in This is True, the "Honorary Unsubscribe" of someone who died in the previous week, could also be good book material. "These are the people you wish you had known," he says. "Take the inventors I've featured. Did you know the same guy invented both the computer hard drive and the video cassette? What a fascinating guy!" He has also featured the inventors of the contact lens, the hovercraft, the Hawaiian shirt, even the guy who thought of putting a peanut inside an M&M. Then, he says, getting excited as he looks through his archive, "there are the medical researchers, responsible for saving thousands, even millions of lives, spectacular entertainers that died virtually forgotten, and..." Just as he says: the kind of people you wish you had known. That book just came out on Amazon's Kindle this week, and it's the first of several in that series. Cassingham told me that "I'm glad I have a block of 100 ISBNs" -- International Standard Book Numbers, which are used to identify books for retailers, including Amazon -- "I'm going to need them." Cassingham used to have the material now coming out in his books available free in various web archives. He counted on Google's Adsense program to bring in ad money, but it hasn't worked as well as he had hoped, even though it's all original work. "TRUE's archive," he admitted, "which had more than five volumes of material, only brought in $559 for the entirety of 2011." Compared to more than $1400 in the first two weeks on Amazon, it's no wonder Cassingham is starting to take the archives down. If someone follows a link to an archive page that has been removed, they now see information on what book it's in -- with a link to itsAmazon sales page. Another good example of unorthodox ways of making money writing iscrowdsource naming. [Via - HuffPost.com] Free Logo Services Review From 0 To $30,000 A Month With Dropshipping Man petitions the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to get Google trademarks canceled Smart Inventions - Salinity Monitor Spoon Designer? We Are Hiring! New Startup Pays Experts To Answer Questions Cool Apps - EggDrop How to Download Youtube Videos Daily advice link -Freelancer? We are hiring!  |
