Archive for October, 2005

  • Gate Crashing Google

    Neil Shearing talks about how to use his step by step guide to get into the main Google search engine in two days and get other sites listed for free.
    (Free registration required)

  • Local Leadership = Local Prospecting

    How do you position your home based business locally?
    Perhaps you don’ t if you’re just marketing online.
    But being the cautious sort, I don’t like to have all my eggs in the online basket.
    So when the opportunity to participate in my county’s annual “leadership development” class came along, I jumped at the opportunity.
    Such classes are [...]

  • Home Business Idea: Selling Photo CD’s on Ebay…
  • Does Your Business Have A Data Destruction Plan?

    While proprietary data may be in the possession of bigger business entities, home busnesses need to address the issue of secure data destruction to avoid identity theft issues.
    From the Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal
    Identity and proprietary data theft is one of the greatest challenges facing small businesses as they work to comply with legislation that protects consumer [...]

  • From Laid Off Worker To Online Dating Coach

    For many laid off workers, the lay off spells the end of a “life”. Post lay off existence usually means they’ll never recover their wages or enjoy life quite that much again. To be sure, I’m describing the existence of many blue collar factory workers… not laid off “execs” per se.
    Ms. Kelly’s story [...]

  • Guerilla Marketing For Massage Therapists And Family Counselors

    A person presenting marketing ideas for home based massage therapists and family counselors in the UK asks for practical marketing advice on a “low budget”.
    Skip Rosell responds…
    Most one-person businesses that are just starting out or have a small client list have plenty of free time between appointments.
    I know if that was me and I [...]

  • How To Start Your Own Tax Free Small Business – Or Not

    John Shroder describes how to set up a completely tax free internet business.
    Be aware that our American legislators are increasingly allowing the IRS to prosecute those they believe are involved in tax avoidance schemes.
    Of course they could solve that problem by making America a tax haven, but I digress.
    I put the link here to show [...]

  • Getting Customers To Beg For More

    Tom Schreiter reveals how a master marketer moved him from cautiously sitting on the sidelines to eagerly waiting to pay wads of cash and how you can harness this technique for your own network marketing or other sales businsess.
    “How I begged the company to reserve my seat, to train me, and to take my money.”

  • Pyramid Schemes Don’t Just Victimize Home Business People

    Some would have you believe that only unsophisticated people with no business background would become involved in a “Pyramid Scheme”.
    But that’s not always so. The biggest losses to pyramid schemes come from government and charitable organizations who invest heavily in deals that are “too good to be true”.
    The promise of extraordinary returns and the illusions [...]

  • 91 Real Business Ideas and Success Stories

    When I made my previous post about optimized press releases, it reminded me of one of my favorite success stories with press releases.
    Susan Blair found a product that she thought would empower women to protect themselves against attackers. She secured the rights to it but had little money to market it. She used press [...]