Archive for April, 2006

Nobody can tell if there’ll be room for home based businesses in this scheme, but you might as well know about it if fishing all day would be your dream job!
From the Memphis Business Journal
Three species of carp with voracious appetites for algae were imported to the U.S. to help clean catfish ponds in Arkansas, [...]

Verizon has decided that products formerly sold my home based and other freelance telecommunications agents will only be sold through in-house channels.
The products affected are…
MCI Neighborhood
MCI Business Complete
TTI National long distance
This change is effective April 11, 2006.
Verizon is expected to honor commissions payable on existing accounts.

From Lynn Bode via Alfa who’s got a cold…
1. Schedule time for working out. When you work at home it’s so easy to work around the clock. To help avoid this think of yourself as having a traditional “office job�?. In most “office jobs�? when you go home for the night you leave work behind [...]

By now you’re familiar with email scams where they need YOUR bank account to process a transaction.
Some forlorn prince from Nigeria offers you a huge commission just for cashing his check and sending him back one.
But the prince’s check bounces and yours doesn’t so your bank account is doubly whacked.
There are variation in how this [...]

I have a friend who buys and sells used computers as an income stream and put the information in an information course. He’s a great guy, fantastic entrepreneur, and I like the things I’ve read from him. What I’m about to write is not intended as any criticism of him, anyone else who sells such [...]

Bottom Line… do companies see outsourcing as an easy way to save money and improve the bottom line when they really need to be looking for more profitable markets, more efficient opertations, and new markets?
Yes.
Will they?
Probably not.
Here’s why companies start as capitalistic and become monopolistic… and what needs to be done.
Remember: the only entrepreneurship you [...]

From Start Up Nation…
The Sloan brothers talk about creating awareness for your small business products and services, so you can get customers to buy them! Hear about their favorite three tactics for promoting your business if you don’t have advertising dollars to spend.

According to Newsmax.com Norway has decided to do something’s about Microsoft’s death grip on the computer market by raising compatibility standards between operating systems and using more open source software.
In other words, they’re tired of paying huge fees to Bill Gates every year too…
The Norwegian government said Friday it will increase its use of freely [...]

Now that you know my home business quandry today, here’s a review of one satellite broadband provider.
From Connected Home Magazine
Using the satellite connection required me to change my Internet habits. First, the IP traffic latencies are very high (averaging well over 500 milliseconds—ms), making online gaming impossible. The DirecPC software also caches much of your [...]

For about a year, my wife moved out of her beloved home office to an office in town to help out a friend and -we thought - expand some of our own business interets.
It hasn’t worked out that way, so she’s considering a move back to home.
There’s just one hitch. In town, there are [...]