Archive for January, 2006

Skip Rosell is one of my favorite writers.
He’s creative yet humble. Lot’s of people want to score big off you and sell you a $200 program (or more) and to do that they have to imply you’re going to be living like Donald Trump in return.
So how many times has that happened to you?
Skip is [...]

From TV Week:
Wayne and Tyna Donelson, 56 and 54, don’t have much time for most mass media. A married pair of small-business owners who work from home in rural Massachusetts, they subscribe to the local paper and a few magazines, rent DVDs voraciously and, thanks to Comcast’s video-on-demand package, watch yet another movie together every [...]

From the Missourian…
On a typical morning, for example, Gabe DeArmond gets his 8-year-old son, Taten Lyngstad, ready and off to school. DeArmond spends the rest of the morning taking care of Turner, until his wife, Janel, who works part time as a production assistant at KOMU-TV, comes home about noon.
Janel takes care of Turner [...]

These companies use virtual agents or home based reps to serve customers in the “homeshoring” trend…
LiveOps:With LiveOps you can earn up to $15/hour just for talking on the phone. And having a home based business saves big on commute time and dry-cleaning costs. Who can beat that?
West Corp: West is the nation’s premier provider [...]

From Small Business Trends via Dane
Homeshoring is the use of home-based workers, such as customer service agents. Through the use of technology, home-based workers can log onto company systems seamlessly to do their work. They just need a broadband Internet connection, a phone line and a computer. The person at the other end of the [...]

It’s easy to look out the window and say “There’s no opportunity here…”.
But what will your county look like in 14 years? Could it be one of the emerging “boom counties” that just looks like a backwater today?
Or could you be experiencing the tail end of an economic boom that is destined to leave your [...]

From Dane
Bill Gate’s first business was a failure…
In 1971, a company called Logic Simulation was inventorying the streets in Kent, Wash. They placed traffic counting boxes, which had a hose going from the box across the street, on some streets. Each time a car crossed the hose, the box increased its count. The results were [...]

Can you make money GIVING free take out menus to restaurants in your area?
Yes… if you know what you’re doing.
Don Alm shares his expertise in the matter…
Yup…”Take-Out Menu Advertising” is a GOOD, FAST, Money-Maker….contrary to other’s opinions.
Many, many times…I’ve started on a Monday and by the end of the day I have $750 in [...]

Net marketing is big, but if distributing even cheaper computers allows more people to access the internet, online marketing could get a proportional boost.
Here’s what the Guardian has to say…
They built a $123bn business around online text search then diversified into video, email and, more controversially, book publishing. Now Google founders Larry Page and Sergey [...]

From Chicago Sun Times….
When John Fox found out Wendy’s was selling drinks in cups with coupons good for free airfare, he did what made sense at the time: He started rummaging through Dumpsters all around the city to collect discarded cups.
Two months and approximately 8,000 cups later, the 29-year-old Ukrainian Village resident is $2,000 [...]