Archive for March, 2006

I asked William Van Hefner of TheDigest.com if there were any successful home based telecom reps. I’m not talking about the folks in MLM’s where the real money (75% at least) came from recruting. Here’s from an industry insider. As for your question, are there ANY successful home-based telecom agents? Absolutely. Of course, your definition [...]

James Jones is – for a short time – giving away a free report on opportunities that exist for “arbitrage” on Ebay. The download link – which will only be available for a short time I’m told – is… The Ebay Arbitrage Report Based on the traffic to my Ebay Misspelling Tool and the number [...]

Advertising works much like the so-called “Chinese Water Torture”…after enough exposure, prospects who want your service will buy. Now you can turn your business card into the cover of a note pad that your customers will use for quite some time. They can cost as little as 58 cents apiece. So if you convert 1 [...]

From Robert Clough’s Search Engine Guide ezine… Hi Everyone, Public radio’s Marketplace program wants to hear from you for a new segment of their programming about entrepreneurship. They contacted us and asked if we would help get the word out and I think this is a great opportunity for our readers. Go here to answer [...]

Dan Farrell is conducting an online survey about the attitudes of new and wanna be “net preneurs”. The results of the survey are posted here… Here are key items that are emerging so far… 1.The #1 reason they haven’t started their online business is because of Lack Of Knowledge 2. Over 96% would like a [...]

Well, actually YOU have to do the writing, but Blurb can publish your book on demand. Here’s how they’re trying to reinvent publishing. $30? Amazing. Most “self-publishing” packages I’ve seen run even higher than the $300 quoted here. A good package with decent services can easily run $1500. They used to say “freedom of the [...]

My wife told me the other day that until she met me, she didn’t know there were so many ways to make money. For example, a friend of mine has a contract with the state to provide transportation to people needing rides to the city for medical care, physicals, etc. These are probably folks on [...]

Google’s new page maker (beta) is an excellent, free web based page design tool… No downloading a page maker program. No need to save things… it saves automatically. No complicated publishing process… just one click. WYSIWYG editing online (“What you see is what you get”) No html required, though you can edit the HTML if [...]

From All Business… 1. Find a quiet place for your office. 2. Add on to your house or rethink its layout. 3. Lay down the law from the beginning. 4. Form a no-trespassing zone. 5. Get a separate phone line. 6. Get a separate computer. 7. Schedule in family time during the day. 8. Hire [...]

From The Sales Trainer newsletter Ever feel like you were “just a salesperson”? I think anyone who has been in sales for awhile has thought or felt this at sometime in their career. In some fields, sales is such a dirty word that they’ve created euphemisms to try and reclaim some dignity. I am sure [...]