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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

Since the late 1980’s, opportunities for children to run their own businesses have been supplanted episodic fundraisers in which children are asked to sell a variety of over-priced items, such as wrapping paper, community coupon books, candy, etc. Unfortunately, such campaigns are generally carried out by parents, rather than their children.

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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

He then pointed out that for service-based businesses every slot that went unfilled the provider had very high fixed costs and very low marginal costs and people ought to be willing to sell low-demand or last-minute expiring times at a discount while selling premium times at full price or even a surge price.

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How Luxury Link Is Growing Its Travel Marketplace, With Scott Morrow

socalTECH

We grew our SEM and improved our ROI. You get access to luxury at a discount price. Our is unique inventory, packaged with the best web pricing. That allows us to discount those to extraordinary prices, so that the inventory we sell is actually Luxury Link''s own inventory. I came out of that with two things.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks!