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Penny Auction Site Offering Designer Accessories

dimediva — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:50:45 GMT

Hi all:

My new business, www.dime-divas.com, has been up and running for less than a month. We have a fairly low user-base right now, so the deals are more than that - they are steals.

Please take some time to view my site. We offer 100% authentic handbags, watches, wallets, jewlery, and more for women, men and children. Unlike other sites, all of our items are in stock! And, we have a spafinder.com rewards program. If you are not familiar with penny auctions, here's a brief description: registered users buy bids for approximately $.65 each. The items offered have a set end time. Each bid placed on an item increases the final price by $.01 and ending time by 10 seconds. Tonight, a Marc Jabos bag that retailed for $1295 sold for $2.06 (or 196 bids).

We offer Marc Jacobs, Coach, Kate Spade, Cole Haan, Juicy Couture, Michael Kors, L.A.M.B. and more.

Sign up today and receive 3 free bids (we call them DivaDimes)!

Glam on,
Traci

Starting a temporary staffing agency

ladyc125 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:17:27 GMT

Hello Community,
Is there any information that someone can give me on how to start a temp agency. I would like to focus on the area of accounting or some sort of business focus. Any knowledge and ideas.

Thanks,
ladyc

Seasonal Business - Should we close in the down season?

krstymeggy — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:37:05 GMT

Seasonal Business - Should we close in the down season?

Postby moabsdailygrind on Sun Dec
Hi, does anyone else operate a coffee business in a small, seasonal town? Our drive-thru has been open 9 months now, and we thought we were prepared for the winter down season, but it's been awful. We have never done extremely high volume, but we were at least turning a small profit which I thought was good for our first year. Last Saturday I sold $9, which was just depressing. So, now we are trying to decide if we should close for the winter season. There is one other drive-thru in town who is better established. As soon as December 1st hit, they radically cut their hours and started closing at 1 pm (they were open until 6). I try to pay attention to what they are doing, because I know they are really clever people.

I guess what my real question is, is do you think it would upset my local business if I closed for 6 weeks? Would this be detrimental to the growth of my business? My location is good, one that is more convenient for many people than the other drive-thru. However, because we are a seasonal town, many of the businesses close in the winter, including the restaurants.

When I first started, my goal was to capture enough of the local business to make it through the down-season. However, I did not anticipate that even many of my regulars leave in the winter because the town is so dead.

We have actually already been closed down a week because our espresso machine broke (another post). But, I spent so much on holiday flavors, christmas baskets, and extra beans, I don't want it all to go to waste. My husband says to just give it to our relatives for gifts this year.

Please share your advice.

Building a Business Website in Wordpress

rgenerator — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:29:37 GMT

After spending a year and a half designing the website for my wife’s small business, I decided to delete the whole thing.

During those 18 months, I learned quite a bit about website design,
search engine optimization and lead conversion. Enough to confidently
delete the website and start over with WordPress.

I had originally built the site with WebsiteTonight from Godaddy and
although I was very pleased with how the site looked, there were too
many advantages to converting it:

I was able to have the blog and website all on one domain
Wordpress is the best blogging software
The code for Wordpress and frugalTheme is clean, fast and search engine friendly
The on-page search engine optimization is built in
I was able to install plugins to improve search rankings, such as All in one SEO Pack, Google XML sitemaps, Google Analytics for Wordpress, and Yet another Related Posts
It is easy to add new content
Creation of categories and tags to improve search engine rankings
Installed good-looking web 2.0 contact form for lead conversion
Ability to interact, leave comments and subscribe to the site

The biggest obstacle is that you do not want your commercial business web
because it is easily customizable and has a minimalist design. I was
able to create a static homepage and have the actual blog as the 4th
page in. The layout is very simple including a basic description,
contact form and testimonials.