Archive for April, 2006

According to the Puget Sound Business Journal Many small businesses support minimum wage hike
Nearly half of all small-business owners favor an increase in the minimum wage, according to a survey conducted by the Gallup Organization for Wells Fargo.
Three-quarters say a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage would have no effect on them. Only [...]

The high prices of gasoline and a Bill O’Reilly commentary on how the big fuel companies are “hosing” us (excuse the pun)… sent me looking for some old articles on topics like “Ethanol Nation or How the United States Can Become Independent of Petroleum Products in Three Years”
O’Reilly noted that
the country of [...]

Adrants reports that the long time print empire of TV Guide may finally recognize it’s growing dinosaur status.
To retain advertising dollars and market share it’s launching 65 blogs …
The blogs, written by magazine and web editorial staff, focus on individual television shows, movies, soaps and just about everything else that has to do with [...]

Marty asks… “Chuck are you still promoting local sales networks as a viable opportunity?”
Marty, thanks for asking.
I’m still very optimistic that people can make excellent money by providing local firms with internet advertising and driving traffic to the site by using grassroots advertising.
I believe that using the “guerilla marketing techniques” taught by folks like Skip [...]

Maybe nothing’s wrong with it. Time will tell. I’d like to see if you noticed what’s missing.
This is a real company rolling out a real service but I won’t divulge the names since they’re not active yet.
They consider themselves “Carmax” without the lots.
They’ll have an internet website that sells used cars bought at auction.
They’ll be [...]

According to this article titled “Americans are Fleeing Big Cities”,
Northeasterners are moving South and West. West Coast residents are moving inland. Midwesterners are chasing better job markets. And just about everywhere, people are escaping to the outer suburbs, also known as exurbs.
“It’s a case of middle class flight, a flight for housing affordability,” said William [...]

MARYLAND (esp. Cecil, Kent, Queen Annes and Charles Counties);
DELAWARE (esp. New Castle County);
PENNSYLVANIA (esp. Northumberland and Chester Counties);
KENTUCKY (esp. Hardin, Bracken, Magoffin and Johnson Counties);
OHIO (esp. Seneca and Brown Counties);
COLORADO (esp. San Miguel County);
IDAHO (esp. Valley and Nez Perce Counties);
ARIZONA (esp. Apache and Yuma Counties) ;
OREGON (esp. Douglas, Curry, [...]

My friend Jim Straw has been advising people to Sell American for many years.
It’s as simple, he claims, as running an ad in the local business papers saying “Wanted: Items for export! Call XXX-XXXX!”
Why?
Because many US manufacturers have no idea how to expand their markets overseas.
So if you do have overseas contacts who want [...]

Many people’s first home business is a nutritionally oriented MLM.
For their pains they face many aspersions from their friends and families because these people are supported in their biases by the medical community who supposedly “know better”… or know at least what the pharmaceutical companies tell them anyway.
Remember, Ph.D.’s earn their doctorate by doing original [...]

First this is about personal blogs… the kind that one person or a team can create and edit, not about making a million blogs with remixed content at each blog for keyword saturation purposes.
I’ll reproduce just one exchange in this debate, but the whole article is worth reading!
From Start Up Journal
Alan Meckler writes: Jason, good [...]