Archive for May, 2006

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 is only the [...]

I don’t know if this will work long term but who knows. It’s one of those “FYI” posts of things I found interesting and they make my mind try to unravel their riddle.
Take it for what it’s worth… perhaps it can help you boost your adsense revenues and find a new way to use Craigslist.
Here’s [...]

These aren’t all work at home business opportunities by any stretch of the imagination, but they are franchises that may appeal to Mom’s.
Hopefully you had a happy mother’s day. 
From  SmallBizMentor via Dane
In honor of Mother’s Day (Sunday, 14 May here in the U.S. and in Canada), I’ve decided to give you links to fourteen franchises that [...]

If you’ve been dying to have a personalized toll free number but it was never available, this may be your chance to “brand” your business.
Don’t forget to register the .com name too if you get the personalized phone number you always wanted! 
From David Frey at Marketing Best Practices.
I’ve been working with the marketing company that is
managing the rollout of the new [...]

Note… the author of this article has 20 blogs, not just this one. His income is diversified over not only multiple affiliates and ad networks, but also over multiple pay per click revenue sources.
From Problogger.net

Advertising Programs
RSS Advertising
Sponsorship
Affiliate Programs
Digital Assets (Selling their own information product)
Blog Networks (Pay-per-post)
Business Blog Writing Opportunities
Non Blogging Writing Opportunities (Paid to write [...]

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

Keyword Analysis and Research
Shanty Town, Samba and Entrepreneurship
3rd High Profile Powerseller Gone
Franchisees See Red After Brown Takes Over
Is Bioperformace Dyed Green Mothballs?
Free Calls With Skype
This List of Work at Home Job Firms [...]

According to Start Up Journal small businesses are less and less dependent on the traditional Yellow Pages for advertising.
Some small-business owners are forsaking traditional advertising venues for online advertising — including ads in search engines Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. and free listings in online classifieds sites like Craigslist. Others are using Internet firms like Spot [...]

According to the article, this New England based firm can outsource paperwork to India for 50% of the cost of US workers even after paying the “middle man”… a Florida firm. 
From Start Up Journal
Two years ago, executives at Subrogation Partners LLC of Connecticut outsourced some paperwork-processing tasks to India. That is hardly unusual. But Subrogation’s size [...]

According to the Puget Sound Business Journal Amazon.com’s Internet Movie Database is a hit… a huge generator of web traffic to the online giant.
Oddly enough, the purchase was relatively long ago and the website has built steam ever since. Only today does it seem like an “overnight success”.
Internet Movie Database was founded in 1990 by Col Needham, [...]

There’s a continuing groundswell of interest in affiliate/internet marketing.
When you can sign up to sell popular products for free, who wouldn’t be interested?
The problem with affiliate/internet marketing is getting traffic.
 At that point, free and low cost traffic sources like Traffic Swarm look very attractive.
In particular, if you’re looking for new affiliate/internet marketers, Traffic Swarm attracts more [...]