Archive for April, 2006

Many people are thinking of Health Savings Accounts as good ideas for small business.
Hey, most entrepreneurs buy into the “buy catastrophic medical insurance and invest (or at least save) the difference.”
In theory, every dollar not spent on health care is building a cash emergency fund accessible some time in the future.
There’s just one catch… many [...]

Yesterday’s article on investments got me thinking … what actually would you invest in?
I’m dubious of Wall Street. After Enron, who can believe the books to really “run the numbers”?
Today’s issue of Early To Rise talked about people who roll over retirement funds and invest in real estate… in this case a Post [...]

Last Week in the Business Opportunities Weblog Network
The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network:

Bank of America Earmarks $10 Million for Entrepreneurs
Problems During Business Start-up Can Mean Success Later
Most Americans Dream of Starting Business
eBay drop off kiosks
eBay Store Help
KFC [...]

There are Seven Sales Personalities according to Keith Rosen… which are you?

The Pusher or “Intimidator”
The Pontificator or “Know it all who never stops talking”
The Sprinter or “How To Close in 30 Seconds”
The Copier never closes because they’re still seeking the perfect [...]

It didn’t make the news that day that I recall, but on March 23rd, 2006 the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation who “insures” (rather guarantees) your bank account issued this report online called
“Scenarios for the Next U.S. Recession”
The three main tipping points that could send the U.S. economy spiralling downward are
1. Energy Costs – you [...]

From Skip McGrath…

1. Poor Feedback Rating
2. Don’t accept credit cards
3. Weak Headlines & Poor Product Descriptions
4. Poor images turn off sellers
5. Underestimating costs & losing money

Should you sell things online or offline?
Actually this is a false dichotomy… why do you need to choose?
Sure, it’s nice to wake up every morning and go to check Google Adsense or Clickbank and see how many new dollars are there.
But sometimes the dollars just aren’t there… you haven’t hit your stride… haven’t tried the [...]

I’ve written some about my wife’s journey into home based medical transcription.
Sometimes I’m asked where she got the training.
She received her training through a local Community College who wisely served as a conduit to an online program offered by Oak Horizons.
She actually did most of her training on dial up.
We found the training to be [...]

The following financial advice is good for anyone… get out of debt, move cash to investments, etc. It applies equally well to folks running any business and hoping to achieve financial security.
MLM is not the only home based business vehicle for achieving this however.
It depends on you as to whether it’s your vehicle to achieving [...]

Ty Tribble, our Ebay expert notes that the auction platform isn’t doing so well in Mainland China.

SFGate:

EBay has little hope of capturing a bigger share of the Chinese online auction market despite bankrolling a major expansion there, according to the company’s chief Chinese rival.
Jack Ma, chief executive of Alibaba.com, China’s leading Internet marketplace, [...]