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Earlier this week, Jet Blue announced an all you can jet plan for the month of September:

Enjoy unlimited travel with our All-You-Can-Jet Pass! For just $599 you can take JetBlue anywhere you like, as often as you like, from September 8 to October 8, 2009. Use your All-You-Can-Jet Pass for business, for pleasure, to visit your favorite cities or to meet with a client. You might as well just do it all! With more than 50 cities to choose from, and for just $599, it’s a deal you can’t pass up.

This kind of pricing structure is incredibly disruptive in the airline industry, because most flights cost about the same amount.

Think about this kind of pricing for your business. Is there a way that you could get people to prepay for the ability to use your service an unlimited amount? One example would be a pizza restaurant that offered a membership for $100 per month (prepaid) that allowed their customers to stop in and get a medium pizza anytime they wanted for free.

Does this get your imagination going?

From Business Opportunities Weblog.

Since winning the SXSW blog award in 2007, Twitter’s growth has been phenomenal. From 500,000 users in early 2008, the site now hosts around 10 million microbloggers, and is used by enthusiasts, professionals and businesses alike.

99 Ways To Make Money Using Twitter was written by the editors of Geekpreneur. What started off as a introduction to Twitter eBook has turned into a 376 page reference guide. It sounds great:

The challenge in writing and researching a Twitter business book is to look at all the strategies, methods, and ways of making money on Twitter, and to bring them together into a book that is current, yet filled with case studies that will not go out of date. The methods range from one extreme to the other. We found authors who were selling their books with Twitter, and writers who were publishing their books on Twitter. We came across plenty of large firms using Twitter to improve their customer service, and one Twitter entrepreneur who was making almost $1500 a month helping CSS programmers in his spare time on Twitter. We found a bunch of different ways of inserting ads into a Twitter page – some more obtrusive than others – and users who were offering Twitter-based translation services, job listings, garage sales, retail outlets, giveaways, affiliate links, contests, directories, craft products and a whole bunch more.

From Business Opportunities Weblog.

In June, Billy Mays the television direct-response advertisement salesperson well known for his introduction, “Hi, Billy Mays here,” died from an apparent heart attack.

Here’s a video tribute to him that includes his famous line and the openings of 30 of his TV commercials.

The commercials include:

• Liquid Diamond
• GatorBlade
• Gopher
• Ding King
• Handy Switch
• Vidalia Slice Wizard
• Green Now
• Hercules Hook
• iCan Insurance
• Kaboom
• Orange Glo
• OxiClean
• Zorbeez
• Quick Chop
• Big City Slider Station
• Engrave-It
• Fix It
• Mighty Shine
• Steam Buddy
• Awesome Auger
• EZ Bundler
• Vidalia Chop It
• Dual Saw
• Flies Away
• Jupiter Jack
• Grater Plater
• Mighty Mendit
• Mighty Putty
• Tool BandIt
• What Odor?

Which was your favorite?

From Business Opportunities Weblog.