Archive for October, 2005

Have you priced your comic book portfolio recently? According to StartUpJournal.com, they may be worth more than you think. To raise $50,000 to help start his San Francisco law firm, Scott Bonagofsky parted with some of his most valuable possessions: early issues of “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “Fantastic Four” comic books. “It was better than [...]

I was checking through some old files and found something that might be of interest to you. When we think of “Work At Home Opportunities” we routinely think of prepacked biz opp programs… MLM Distributorships “Information Courses” on subjects like Real Estate The Cash Flow Business Vending Handi Crafts Internet Marketing Etc. But did you [...]

Karen Deis is a home based entrepreneur herself. When she entered the mortgage origination business, she quickly learned that she couldn’t keep doing things the same way as other mortgage originators and still have the income she wanted. She soon found that a seemingly limitless pool of mortgage originators was courting a relatively small number [...]

One thing about direct mail these days is that there’s far less competition. The newbies who used to try their hand at “Mailorder” as a low cost business start up have turned to the web where the barriers to entry are even lower, but – if possible – even more elusive. A trend exists to [...]

As netpreneurs, here’s what we do know. 1. Depending on the keyword chosen, advertisers pay $0.5 to over $100 per click to have somebody simply LOOK AT their website and (hopefully) read their sales message. 2. Net Publishers who run dynamic advertising for Google or Yahoo are paid some percentage of the price the advertisers [...]

If you’ve invested your time, money, and passion in building a home business or small business, what have you done to protect it from theft or destruction? Of if you’re hard at work in your office and the kids are playing outside, how do you keep an eye on them? This caught my eye… VISEC [...]

You may receive an email like I did. The email makes it sound like you’re getting a real deal… A $97 value annual membership for free. And to be sure you DO get lots of free ebooks… an excellent collection, some with resale rights. But this is also a group similar to the Joint Venture [...]

Stay in the work at home business long enough and you’ll soon hear the headline… “____________________ goes MLM!” The implication is “Get Rich Finally!” “Credit Cards Go MLM!” is the latest such headline. And yes, it could make you rich. But here’s an important fact to remember. Every product sold to the end user has [...]

October 9 – 15: New Zealand’s Fifth Annual National Home Business Week. New Zealand is a nation of small businesses – and of those, more than two thirds are home-based. These 230,000 Davids face unique issues and challenges, but take on their Goliaths with tenacity, ingenuity and courage. They often work in isolation, invisible behind [...]

Why do bankers sell foreclosure properties at auction when they could make more otherwise? Frank Chan offers this interesting insight at creonline.com about their preference for auctions. 1. They’ve already taken the loss. 2. The auction setting gives them a higher profit because, in their world, it’s a 100% profit. And here’s something else that [...]