Work At Home Business Opportunities Weblog
I ran this concept last August. I wanted to bring it to your attention again because it’s selling at a huge discount for the time being… under $10.
So if you’re the least bit interested, now is the time to buy!
Here is a great idea for geographical post card marketing that someone sent me today.
Some businesses operate by targeting a neighborhood again and again because, odds are, someone there will be in the market to buy another home, move, do home maintenance, etc. Real estate agents call this “farming”.
But mortgage brokers do it as well. So do lawn and pool maintenance companies.
If you’re just wanting to work from home - don’t worry. This guy uses the concept to
1. Sell advertising space on postcards - he makes almost $1 for every card he mails! (.89 to be precise)
2. Charges $150 per hour to photograph and organize “target” neighborhoods for businesses wanting to use his method.
What if you wanted to sell advertising for all these companies to a particular neighborhood? This is the ultimate “targeted mailing”. To paraphrase Dan Kennedy, direct marketing pro, a Goodyear Blimp flying over a football field is “image marketing”. The Goodyear Blimp flying to a home where the car in the drive way has tires with no tread and the wires showing through and hovering until the owner does something - now that’s direct marketing!
Interested in geographical post card marketing? Check it out!
William Douglass who writes the Douglass Report recently noted that Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is trying to sell it’s weight loss product called “Alli” as an “over the counter” weight loss tool.
Like big companies everywhere, they’ve decided that a great way to sell more of their stuff is to make sure that consumers can’t buy anyone else’s “stuff”. To do that, they petitioned the Federal Government to make your all health claims about weight loss “drug claims”. Since they think they’re way head of the field and believe (correctly) most other product providers don’t have the money to spend buying the FDA’s permission, that this is a good way to destroy competition.
Network marketers selling nutritional supplements should be very concerned. Freedom loving people should be very concerned.
You can register your complaints here Regulations.gov
I was visiting Clickbank’s site today and found this notice:
New York state has implemented a new law that requires online retailers with affiliates located in New York state to collect sales tax from New York residents. Therefore, effective 2008-06-01 we are collecting sales tax on all sales made to residents of the state of New York.
Gary Busey is doing promotions for Vmail so they sent me these videos about some wacky business ideas.
If you’re kinda bored and want to see what Gary Busey is doing these days, give it a look see. It’s mildy risque and not nearly as funny as I hoped.
If you can’t see the video below, click here.
The Oregonian reports that a “Guerilla Marketer” is getting attacked by the proverbial 500 pound “Gorilla” of City Hall: Portland sues Jobdango over sidewalk chalk graffiti
The regional job search website Jobdango.com put hundreds of chalk advertisements on the sidewalk promoting their website. You can see some of their non-chalk advertising here. As you can see they do quite a lot to spark word of mouth.
It’s happened before. The first time there was a warning. The next time a $5,446 which went unpaid for “clean up” (as if the rain didn’t clean it up eventually anyway). Now another $5,446 clean up bill.
A city official quoted in the article said:
“Not everyone who writes on the sidewalk will get sued,” said Walters, adding that the city is going after Jobdango because the company had been warned before and because of the high number of markings left in one night. The medium, he said, is no excuse.
Hop skotchers evidently need not live in fear.
Guerilla marketers with a chalk advertising craving… well, that’s another story. Or chalk drawing at least.
Image courtesy jobdango.com
This Reuters article demonstrates ingenuity: “For Sale: Cheap heating oil — from my basement”
As New Yorkers and other residents of the North East US modernize their heating and cooling systems, many are left with tanks of heating oil they’ll never use.
They just want rid of the smelly old stuff and - they’re willing to sell it for pennies on the dollar.
This enterprising individual is expected to save $3 per gallon.
Want to start your own business?
Want to know the fields where graduates are in demand?
Just want your kid to be able to get a job when they’re done with college instead of having a useless degree?
Then check out the Most Lucrative College Majors (Slideshow)
#1?
Computer engineering! Lots of work at home spin off options there!
Here’s 10 High Paying Work From Home Jobs as seen on Careerbuilder.
My only disagreement might be “Financial Planner”… most of the ones I know meet people in an office that’s plush and “bank like” to make the customer feel like their money is being handled well even if that doesn’t happen at banks!
But they may mean a planner working at home part time and at another location some.
Lot’s of people who work at home tell me they have to escape the house sooner or later or they are going to go nuts.
In our town, that means, oddly enough, going to a Krystal’s, Dairy Queen, or a Gas Station/Convenience Store! (Big place, huh?)
These rules apply for more upscale places but still have application at the less sophisticated wifi spots too.
The 7 Golden Rules of Working From A Cafe
Of course the “Golden Rule” still works too: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you!”
So how would you want people to treat you if you owned the Coffee House?
Let’s see.
1. Buy something!
2. Be nice to the workers!
3. Don’t sit there all day every day unless you’re buying more than one lousy soft drink with free refills (this applies to our Dairy Queen Wi Fi Hotspot!)
I’m sure you get the idea.
One business that’s booming these days is the job of “Repo Man”.
In the article “Hard Times A Boon For Repo Men” you soon learn it’s not just cars being “repossessed”… it’s even yachts.
One advantage to repossessing yachts is you don’t feel so sorry for the guy who’s $200,000 behind on his yacht payment when they’re still driving a Merc and living in a mansion!
On the low end of the repo man’s life - taking people’s only car - life is tougher… the man interviewed for this article wears a bullet proof vest, not your average home business start up expense. It tends to be a job for night owls as well.
But the $400 to $1000 per repo makes for even the “small jobs” in South Florida make it attractive.
