Archive for May, 2006

Ebay, the engine of internet capitalism is parterning with Yahoo.
This should help the overture network expand search opportunities for their advertisers, but what will it do for the ebayers who are trying to run a business online?
Hopefully it will mean that their auction listings will be served up on the Yahoo search network and will [...]

This is from Craigslist
I’m not sure if telecommuting is allowable or not.  It seemed interesting anyway. I call it “bilingual” because the link on craigslist is titled “hispanic jobs”.
The ServiceMaster Company, a $3.5B leader in the home services industry whose brands include TruGreen ChemLawn, Terminix, American Home Shield and Merry Maids, is looking for a [...]

From Start Up Journal 
Consider the following questions before making the jump to free agent:

Are the skills you possess in demand, and do you have the experience companies will seek? Professionals with, say, more than five to seven years’ experience are in greater demand, experts say.
Can you handle erratic paychecks?
How will you pay for health [...]

The Sirolli Institute exists to facilitate entrepreneurship. It believes in harnessing the dreams and drive of local entrepreneurs NOT by telling the locals what some big wig in Washington DC thinks they OUGHT to do, but by listeing to the local people.
By listening, Sirolli turned one man from being long term unemployed to running a business [...]

Here’s a home based, telecommuting postion from a REAL company. (Spherion does recruiting locally here for biggies like Dell computer).
Here’s thier posting on Monster.com for a Virtual, Home Based Executive Recruiter
JOIN SPHERION’S VIRTUAL RECRUITING TEAM of 270 Virtual Recruiters nationwide; due to our continued success as a high-volume, fast ramp up staffing model within Spherion, [...]

 
As a rank newbie to the world of blogging, I’m going to take a stab at “revealing” what I’ve learned so far.
Perhaps these are even my habits… though calling me “Highly Effective” may be a bit of a stretch. I feel as disciplined as a string of overcooked spaghetti.
But perhaps if you’re a newbie like me, [...]

 
It’s true, turn your flying interests into cash.
How? Through advertising sales.
FlySkyWay.us  publishes and gives away free airport guides to commercial and non commercial pilots so that when they land in a strange destination, they can know about the unique aspects of the airport.
The guides contain national and local/regional advertising to finance them and pay sales reps.
If [...]

From the Creative Real Estate Forum
John:
Inflation, and health costs are the two big “unknowns” in retire planning. For this reason, I did not count on a fixed percent (5%) for a certain target fund amount ($1,000,000).
I watched my dad and his contemporaries plan for retirement, and in the late 1960’s, when some of [...]

This ad appeared in Nashville, TN when I saw it.
To find out more about this “Guerrila” Marketing company I typed in the email to respond to and for the first few pages only came up with other Craigslist ads when I did a Google search.
It’s as if this company wants bandit signs posted all over [...]

 
Andy Wibbels is the evangelist for blogging to the small  business community 
From the Seattle Times
Without his blog, Chicagoan Andy Wibbels never would have written a book.
Wibbels, 31, who writes a blog that teaches blogging for small businesses  was contacted by an editor who had been reading his blog.
The editor was from publishing giant Penguin.
“Out of [...]