Archive for 2005

When I read this Dilbert comic strip a few days ago, it sounded remarkably like many of the “work at home” job postings I see in Monster, etc. that are really work at home business opportunities where YOU have to pay. It made me wonder… Is Dilbert doing MLM these days? “The job doesn’t have [...]

So what’s the difference between a “Stairstep Breakaway” and “Party Plan” compensation system? Actually “Party Plans” are a type of “Stairstep Breakaway” compensation plan. The “Stairstep Breakaway” compensation plans bascially allow a representative to start out making a retail profit. As the reprseentatives sells increasingly higher volumes of products per month, the company rewards the [...]

Carole Hubbard is a founding distributor of Southern Living At Home. I visited with this home business pro at a district fair in the region where she had a display. Though she’d never participated in any home business program before, she welcomed the offer to join Southern Living at Home because of the parent company’s [...]

From StartUpJournal.com There’s a growing market for slightly used books. I find these at my local library’s regular “book sales” for next to nothing. Could this be a nice work at home niche for you? The key, of course, is turning a one time sale into repeat customers through building your list of potential future [...]

Are you using forums to good advantage? Not only are there some online forums that provide solid information, they can be an excellent way to drive traffic to your web site. I recently made a posting on just two forums about an unusual book I’d found: Discovered! 505 Odd Enterprises An inspirational collection of 713 [...]

LocalTN.com is just another one of the bids to tap into the emerging local search marketplace. They’re using offline marketing via sweepstakes and other incentives (one a “lifetime hosting” offer for a sweepstakes winner) to build online traffic. From what I can tell it’s not a home based business, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t [...]

Yes, you CAN legally print your own “money” at home. I’m not talking about direct mail, creating printed information products, sales letters or other ideas associated with “printing your own money at home”. Instead I’m talking about IRS sanctioned local currencies. The Grand Daddy of such currencies here in the U.S. is the “Ithaca Hour”. [...]

Though network marketing has been a work at home choice in the US for a generation, it’s just now catching on in India. From the Deccan Herald All of 60 and no signs of slowing down. Jayanti aka Jay Mackay is as active as an ant. Sitting in the comfort of her swanky office room, [...]

Statistics show that the “sweet spot” for flipping a property (not a human being) is three to six months. From Real Estate Journal Question: I recently bought a home priced below market. I tried to sell it right after closing escrow. I received an offer the next day and we opened escrow right away. After [...]

In New Jersey, the most recent census indicated that 106,000 – 2.7% of the population – work from home. Nationwide the number is expected to jump to 15 million by 2008. Most work at home entrepreneurs highlighted in the article are not employed using the “packaged” business opportunities so popular online or in home business [...]