Pricing strategies for Small Businesses

Found an article on webpronews.com about pricing strategies for small companies. One big point I want to lay out: Yes, business is slow for many entrepreneurs right now; however, be cautious with your pricing methods. Don’t simply slash prices; instead incorporate long-term and short-term strategies that are always complementary to each other. If you offer…

Entrepreneurial Deathtraps

A very nice read of vcinstitute.org about the 25 mousetraps of entrepreneurs: 9. Lack of focus A new venture’s most precious resource is talent. Doing one thing well from scratch is an enormous challenge. Tackling three or four at once is inviting across-the-board mediocrity or worse. Carefully sort through your opportunities before you start. Focus…

mtv overdrive in BETA

As PSFK reports, MTV-Overdrive is in BETA. It looks like MTV is going to play the music-clips online. All you need is the Internet-explorer and a special plugin called Overdrive Video Optimizer….mmmh, and what about Mac OS and Firefox? Currently no support because the service uses the MS Mediaplayer 9 Codec for DRM which is…

Making money with blogs?!

People quite often discuss how to make money with blogs, and how a business model could look like. I personally don´t think it is in positioning banners on your weblog or insert ads into the RSS feeds. I assume there could be something different: It´s a rule of the „old-media“ that all that counts is…

google satellite kicks ass

I´m really deeply impressed: when you search on local.google.com one now can watch either the „normal“ map or the satellite view. and this is so, so cool: I´ve got the feeling, as if web and real world are beginning to merge somehow. The performance is very very well: you can take the picture and drag…

Candy Spam?

Marks asks himself why there´s no „candy-spam“: For example, if you make more money selling candy than imaginary drugs, you’d expect in time to get more candy spam and fewer fake drug ads.Why don’t we have spam for hit music? Everyone likes music. Why don’t we have spam for cleaning products? Everyone has dirty dishes.…

25 fascinating entrepreneurs

A nice read on inc.com about 25 fascinating entrpreneurs and why we love them: Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Omnimedia because she took one for the team Richard Branson, Virgin Group because he’s game for anything. In fact, everything. Michael Dell, Dell Computer for being brilliantly straightforward … . via business-opportunities

Harald is dead

Now he´s dead: Harald Juhnke was a quite famous german actor, but had lifetime alcohol problems. We´ve often joked of his alcoholism, but all in all he was a real great actor, and I´m quite a bit sad that he died today. Cheers, Harald!

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