Archive for December, 2005

GetResponse and Aweber, popular autoresponder firms, allow users to scan their outgoing messages using Spam Assassin, the open source spam filter.
Here’s an article about using the program to clean up your own own outgoing emails or - at least - let you know what they’re looking for!
From ClickZ
We previously recommended running your e-mail marketing message [...]

Did I tell you about the time my Durango’s battery died while on vacation in Gatlinburg, TN (actually I was at the Pigeon Forge McDonalds)…
2 Good Samaritans tried to resurrect my car and then when all else failed, drove me to Wal Mart to get a new battery and put it in for me for [...]

Online Directory advertising is expected to be a $5 Billion Dollar Business by 2008! according to the San Antonio Business Journal.
They’re talking about YellowPages.com which will replace the smaller online Yellow Pages.
But like the “Real Yellow Pages” there’s always money to be made by being a “knock off” directory.
If there weren’t why does virtually [...]

Mel White gives us the scoop on scrap at FriendsInBusiness!
After checking out a board recommended by Nathan Haines a few message threads south ( clicky-link) , I discovered that yes by golly there IS a market for scrap metals and there’s recyclable metal in a lot of things. What surprised me most is that people [...]

From Jason Lewis
Yesterday, I decided to set up a new content site targeting niche market. I almost made a big goof, by registering a domain that I believe is probably banned from Google. Thankfully, I have a few checks which I now run through before I register a new domain, and that helped [...]

Update: Check out this Free Advertising Resource too! 
I’ll give it to Mike Filsaime, he’s always coming up with new ideas for marketing his business and yours.
This time, he’s offering free advertising to you on his Free Advertising Blog.
Free accounts let you post your ad once every 7 days.
Elite membership costs more but may be worth [...]

Dan Poytner’s new book is Writing Non Fiction: Turning Thoughts Into Books.
It’s an excellent tool for aspiring non fiction writers who want to see their ideas transformed into a money and prestige generating book.
In Dan’s typical style, there are pointers (no pun intended!) on every page.
Hundreds of useful weblinks dot the pages of [...]

From Business Idea Factory (paid registration required)…
It started as a way for a guy who retired with a bad back from the construction industry to stay sane, so he took a part time job delivering newspapers… as a contractor, he’d been used to getting up with the roosters.
Soon he learned the number one reason [...]

I won’t reveal any names because I didn’ t get their permission, but on my travels this week, I came across
a particularly interesting home business story from Western North Carolina.
If you’re familiar with many homeschooling families, you see a trend… larger than 2.1 children per family and the desire to make extra money from home.
That’s [...]

From SohoSavvy, quoting AllBusiness.com via Dane’s watchful eye…
Trying to fit a round business into a square house. Not all businesses can realistically succeed in a home-based location. Take a look at your needs for equipment, work space, storage, inventory, and employees and determine if it is simply too difficult to run your business from your [...]