Archive for October, 2005

Did you know it’s possible to receive up to $150 for a used cell phone? Many routinely pay back $5 or more. One company even pays folks $5 for referring their friends too. Given the way cell phones seem to accumulate, it’s worth seeing if any of those old phones around your place are worth [...]

Google got in trouble for seeking to digitize books with legally enforceable copyrights. Now Yahoo et al are planning to do the same with the classics. Read through and I’ll pass an idea along that may allow you to profit while working from home… From BizJournals.com A group including Yahoo Inc., Adobe Systems Inc. and [...]

Make $75 again and again and again? It sounds like a scam, but I know Skip Rosell’s reputation so I knew there must be something to it. It’s really about making money with other people’s business cards. He’s selling an information product but I think many enterprising people can still learn something from reading his [...]

Catering to the growing work at home trend world wide, this UK architectural firm designs customized work at home environments for the work at home crowd… The growing trend in working from home finds people working in very strange places. InsideOut Buildings, who design and build bespoke home offices were very surprised by their survey [...]

MSN is celebrated “National Work At Home Week” with some profiles in 2000. Here’s one I found interesting. A Portland, Ore., man describes how the MSN network of content and services enables him to work more productively from home and on the road. A typical day at the office for Chris Hanschka might begin in [...]

When I read this Dilbert comic strip a few days ago, it sounded remarkably like many of the “work at home” job postings I see in Monster, etc. that are really work at home business opportunities where YOU have to pay. It made me wonder… Is Dilbert doing MLM these days? “The job doesn’t have [...]

So what’s the difference between a “Stairstep Breakaway” and “Party Plan” compensation system? Actually “Party Plans” are a type of “Stairstep Breakaway” compensation plan. The “Stairstep Breakaway” compensation plans bascially allow a representative to start out making a retail profit. As the reprseentatives sells increasingly higher volumes of products per month, the company rewards the [...]

Carole Hubbard is a founding distributor of Southern Living At Home. I visited with this home business pro at a district fair in the region where she had a display. Though she’d never participated in any home business program before, she welcomed the offer to join Southern Living at Home because of the parent company’s [...]

From StartUpJournal.com There’s a growing market for slightly used books. I find these at my local library’s regular “book sales” for next to nothing. Could this be a nice work at home niche for you? The key, of course, is turning a one time sale into repeat customers through building your list of potential future [...]

Are you using forums to good advantage? Not only are there some online forums that provide solid information, they can be an excellent way to drive traffic to your web site. I recently made a posting on just two forums about an unusual book I’d found: Discovered! 505 Odd Enterprises An inspirational collection of 713 [...]