In some respects, Yahoo's cross-selling improvements are a response to Amazon's entry into the market last year.
Of course, nothing is ever as simple as those selling home improvements would make it seem.
He supported himself selling home improvement supplies as a student at Bir Zeit, but because of frequent Israeli closings of Palestinian universities during the first intifada, it took seven years to get his degree in business administration.
That June he agreed (along with other executives and another company he runs, SMI/USA) to settle the charges by paying a total of $320,000, one of the FTC's largest civil penalties at that time, for overstating to prospective agents the income potential and ease of selling self-improvement products.
For the more traditionally religious Jews, Birmingham has been a harder sell, but improvements to religious life have been made in recent years.
I manage by reminding myself that it's all an investment, that theoretically, whenever we sell, these improvements will help us maybe/possibly/hopefully recoup these upfront costs.
Even in those days, Meadmore was a salesman, and he put his skills to work hustling for the Church, bringing in 68 new devotees by selling personal improvement as a gateway into Scientology for what was then the equivalent of a month and a half's worth the average pay.
Consider OurHouse.com, an Internet store that sells home improvement goods and furnishings.
The fund also has built a position in Masco, which sells home improvement items like cabinets and plumbing fixtures.
Although there is no shortage of original ideas on the Web, one of the more imaginative sweepstakes offers from e-commerce sites lately is the "Win-a-Guy" sweepstakes from OurHouse.com, which sells home improvement supplies.
Cyberbath.com, Faucetdepot.com and other sites sell home-improvement lines, too.
