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...fair. I'd never heard the word before last week...
...marketplace where small businesses can get quotes for free on a wide variety of services from a network of suppliers. Register simply typed in a list of what he needed from a long-distance carrier, including two phone lines, a fax line and a toll-free number. Within a week, Demandline had auctioned his request to numerous suppliers, including AT&T and Qwest, and received a competitive bid from Cable & Wireless, which Register accepted. Just two weeks after placing his bid, Register saw results. "I've been saving about $200 a month with the new plan," he says. "That...
...costly direct mailings and trade-magazine ads. Earlier this year, Clotworthy discovered Onvia, a Seattle-based small-business exchange with more than 60,000 suppliers across 117 services. He signed up with Onvia, and receives one to 10 requests for lists a day and contracts at least once a week to businesses around the country. The Refinery's sales through Onvia average just under $600, with the biggest one to date $30,000. Onvia typically collects $3 a bid from the seller regardless of whether the bid is accepted--a small price to pay, Clotworthy says, for spending just...
...WEEK AHEAD...
...more than 25 lawsuits filed in the past week and a half scare you. The legal morass is shallower than it first appears. In essence there are just three continuing legal battles: the Republican attempts to stop all manual recounts from going forward, the Democratic attempts to get counties to hand count their ballots and to keep these recounts going, and the struggle of some Florida citizens to force a new election in Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach cases are moving slowly, but in the others there has been a clear winner, at least...