Archive for October, 2005

New Zealand Telecom has named the Home Business of the Year… A Nelson company that started as a one-man business and now employs more than 100 staff has won the Telecom Home Business of the Year Award. Sunrise Cleaning Services was named overall winner of the award, as well as the winner of the business [...]

Have a website or weblog? Having an RSS feed can get you extra traffic from unexpected sources. Webpreneurs are increasingly using feeds to add constantly updated content to their websites. Who knows… they might pick up your feed to highlight and send you some extra hits for free thanks to their marketing efforts? Products like [...]

Dennis Bevers describes what happend on Sowpub.com: Someone already posted my answer – diversification. My home-based business sustained a direct hit from Hurricane Rita. Two weeks w/o electricity to my office, and 12 days living out-of-town. The phone company has advised it will take another 4 weeks before they’ll re-connect my phone/fax/internet lines to my [...]

“How to capture, conquer, control and profit from your own personal captive audience.” It starts with providing strategic services not available in the surrounding countryside as Tom Schreiter recalls from an infamous visit to the UK.. Confused? You’ll see what I mean…!

I have received lots of questions about “Paid Online Surveys”… are they a “scam”? The short answer is “no” but I’ll qualify that in a moment. In just the last year, I’ve made $80 from SurveySavvy.com – no fortune by any means. But given the time I’ve put into it, I can’t complain. It’s time [...]

From the TimesOnline.com WORKING full-time from home was almost unheard of just a decade ago. But the number of people who have ditched the daily commute for the comfort of their sofas and laptops has doubled in the past eight years, according to figures released today. Nearly 2.5 million employees now work from home, accounting [...]

If skyrocketing gasoline prices weren’t incentive enough, if the desire for a terrorist proof business continuity plan weren’t important, the next big motivation for teleworking is the fear of an Avian Flu pandemic… From Investor’s Business Daily The outbreak of an avian flu pandemic that experts say could come soon might cripple many businesses, bring [...]

This Microsoft Corp sales pro turned part time real estate investor is having to confront the reality of a real estate bubble in his own home town. Here’s what he did… From RealEstateJournal.com Throughout his first year as a landlord, Mr. Jones has spent as much energy prospecting new investments as he did worrying about [...]

Jean Aime writes about changes in the home business market: Last summer, the Elite small business specialist conducted 15 multi-county workshops on home-based business. Participants from 32 counties and 82 communities attended these workshops, providing a total of 156 usable surveys (a 57% response rate). Demographic Characteristics Over three-fourths of those who responded were females [...]

Dan Poytner has been promoting self publishing for years. Here are his tips on how to start your own home based publishing business. Anyone can be a publisher. The publisher is the one who puts up the money. If you invest in your own printing, you are a self-publisher. If you begin to take in [...]