Archive for May, 2006

Here’s a fast way to a low interest rate credit card… I posted it on my brokeanonymous blog but it applies to many work at home businesses. It’s about how I turned 2 high interest credit cards (19% on one, 25% on the other) to one low interest rate credit card… 1. With one phone call [...]

Have you gotten those invitations for the Social Networking service Linkedin? If you haven’t joined or promoted Linkedin yourself, you might think differently after reading this article. Start Up Journal reports  how one start up entrepreneur used the service to land some major accounts… Ever since Anu Shukla launched RubiconSoft Inc. three years ago, she [...]

It’s unbelievable to me, but when I clicked the link I’m about to reveal, I found a potential book buyer willing to pay $2,300 for a single book! Wow! Here ‘s just PART of the FIRST PAGE of Steve Weber’s Buyer’s Waiting List It’s subject to change though… Top Amazon pre-orders ‘Buyers Waiting’ sorted by [...]

Steve Weber USED to be a stress out editor. To make ends meet, he started selling some books on line. When a lay off made his career choice for him, instead of looking for a job per se, he decided to turn his hobby… selling books online into a full time business of selling books. [...]

On Craigslist this morning, the following ad appeared. I’ve left out the email addresses… no use encouraging them. I hate spam, but I’d also hate a novice who thinks it would be good to respond to this ad to get ripped off either. They want 1 cent per name for these…and claim to have 450,000 [...]

StartUp Journal reported on May 16th that Micro Lending is moving from the realm of philanthropy to a purely profit driven status in developing nations. These loans – typically under $100 and for items like a water buffalo for plowing or milk sales, bicycle for transportation, or bundle of clothing to be resold are so the loan recipient can [...]

From the NY Times via Dane Luz Stella Bongiovi has a job that many people would envy. After 12 years in the same business, she supervises more than 100 employees and logs about 50 hours a week, coming into work at 10 a.m. and often working at home. She has been sent on junkets to [...]

Write An Article A Day, The Easy Way is an excellent “spur” to remind business people what they need to be doing online to create a steady stream of traffic. You keep hearing about the need to “build a list” … “optimize your pages” …etc. but people change their email addresses every day and search [...]

Advertising Age reported May 15th that only 1 in 4 teenagers can name the major broadcast networks. That was the headline anyway. In the body of the article though, the reality is much more profound… it’s not just teens! It’s people up to age 34! (You know … the ones we hoped had recovered from the hormone surge and [...]

Because PayPal (along with Ebay) have facilitated so many home based buiness enterprises, issues of Pay Pal security are very important in the work at home business field.  Most PayPal “phishing” ploys are easy to spot. “Your account has been limited” – yeah, like you thought I had $10 million there? “Please update your account” – duh, this [...]