Archive for February, 2006

From RealEstateJournal.com
If there’s anything Americans obsess over as much as sports, pop culture and college for their kids, it’s real estate. All over the country, people love to talk about how much their homes, and those of their neighbors, might be worth if sold today and what it would take to snag a new house.
Trouble [...]

There’s a gut feeling that some kinds of sites “always make money”.
Love, romance, and dating sites are one of those that are “assumed” to do well because people are always looking for love, right?
Of course they are, but that doesn’t mean they’ll flock to just any website - or the web at all necessarily.
Therefore [...]

Here’s an Ebay Misspellings tool I recently posted…
http://www.lowauctionseller.com/spelling.php
Did you know that everyday there are hundreds of eBay auctions that have misspelled words in the titles and descriptions? Auctions with misspelled information do not come up on the regular eBay search, so often these auctions have no bids and can be scooped up at a bargain [...]

From the Copywriter’s Board:
I hired a VA tonight… Virtual Assistant. Been a long time coming!
Should have done it long ago.
Anyhow, she turned me on to a great FREE service for passing files back and forth. If you’re like me, and you’ve tried to email large files — or certain file types — as [...]

OUTSOURCE SO YOU CAN USE YOUR TIME FOR SALES
–Judy Cullins, 20-year bookcoach, http://www.bookcoaching.com
Hire a Low Cost Computer Assistant. After six months learning the Internet, I started to use my computer/techie assistant from the local high school for submitting the articles and keeping track of them. As soon as we got 25 or so out, my [...]

As some know, I send out a weekly recap by email of my favorite posts each week.
Hundreds have signed up for it at http://1stHowToWorkAtHome.com.
This is a fully opt in mailing list and I’ve never knowingly spammed anyone EVER.
To remind people they signed up, every email includes…
Their name, email, sign up date, and sign up IP [...]

From Michael Ross on Sowpub.com Forum…
Everyone - well most people anyway - will agree that Multiple Streams of Income (MSI) is a good thing to have. Where the disagreement starts is in the Dollar Value of the MSI.
“I ain’t gonna do nuthin’ for only thirty bucks a week.”
Hey, I WILL because that gives [...]

From Small Business Info (Canada) at About.com

1. Pet Sitting
2. Residential cleaning and other services
3. Delivery services
4. Grass cutting/removal
5. Scrap Booking
6. Hauling
7. Selling on Ebay

Here’s a free sample of Bill Stoller’s publicity newsletter
Here’s an excerpt from today’s ezine…
Make Yourself a Hometown Hero - Make Your Website a Local Resource
If your business draws its clientele from a specific town, city or region, focusing your energy on getting an elusive national publicity hit may be overkill, especially when getting publicity [...]

A lady I know went through a job transition recently.
An office nurse for a doctor, she suddenly found herself changing jobs when the doc retired.
She welcomed the transition because she wanted to work for herself.
My wife and I saw her today and asked her how her business was going.
She said “great”.
I asked … what’s your [...]