Archive for November 17th, 2005

Some wineries, it seems, are just another variety of “home business” struggling to increase their profits.
Perhaps you need to regain control over your product or service to increast profits?
Do you need to learn how to go directly to the consumer of your product or service instead of depending on a middle man to help you [...]

Lance Mock reminded me how “aged” I am when he sent this letter to his email list yesterday promoting this weblog.
Thanks Lance… and tell your wife she is probably the only person in the whole world who still remembers those days!
What sent my wife DIVING into a stack of books?
I know you’ve been online [...]

“Big Box” stores like Wal Mart and the big retailers aren’t the only ones who’ll be selling gift cards this Christmas.
CNN/Money reports …
For truckers who haul Santa’s loot to stores all over the country, what better way to express your gratitude than with a 7-Eleven gift card, for an 18-pack of Bud Light, or [...]

Glenn Osborn, a Baltimore, MD, entrepreneur uses this criteria:
I belong to a Baltimore Networking group. NRG. Networkreferralgroup.com - it’s actually grown to 6 states. I like it more than BNI and ALL the other groups I’ve visited because…
A - You’re in and out with a fistfull of referrals in 60 minutes
B - The Group [...]

From the Los Almos Monitor:
Increasingly the biggest obstacle to having a home business is… your neighbors.
Here’s another example…
Citing declining property values and an increase in industrial establishments in their area, the Pajarito Homeowners Association is appealing a decision made last week by the Planning and Zoning Commission which granted a special use permit for a [...]