Archive for May, 2006

From MSN CareerBuilder Once an anomaly, working mothers are now the norm in the American workplace. Nearly three-fourths of mothers with children under age 18 are in the workforce, and even mothers of the very young are trading in baby bottles for briefcases – more than 60 percent of mothers with children under age 3 [...]

Our local talk radio is abuzz with CBS’ piece on THE ETHANOL SOLUTION which ran on 60 Minutes. It’s an inspiring story of how Iowa farmers pooled their life savings to start creating alternatives to oil…. it almost brough tears to my eyes. Here were people who weren’t waiting for the government to bail them [...]

A while back I made some posts about Google’s page creator (beta). In my mind these are a bid to help Google create massive amounts of unique, non-duplicated information for their search customers. At this point, evidently anyone with a Gmail account can sign up and make their own pages. Each website can host 100 [...]

The Doty family had to move because an out of control bureaucracy penalizes families for teaching their children a legitimate family business. Read about the Doty family’s struggles here at their website: http://www.familiesthatwork.org/

The IRS has clarified the rules about non profit organizations offering “tax favored” assistance to low income folks needing assistance with buying a home. While this seemed like a useful and legal tool for helping sell stalled real estate, clarifications have been issued which might kill things all together. If you’re in real estate investing, [...]

If you’re familiar with the wonderful marketing training by people like Jay Abraham, Dan Kennedy, etc. please realize that some concepts that work in the “real world” don’t compute as easily online. It’s not that the concepts are wrong… they’re not. It’s that online work adds a new dimension and tricks marketers into thinking someone [...]

All the stories are funny unless you were an investor but the first is most instructive. It was started by a law student who decided that overpricing products and hoping he could reneg on promised rebates was a great way to make money. Based on his buisness model, law students are being taught today that [...]

Event Promotion: A Great No-Capital-Required Business By Paul Lawrence I stood by the door in awe, watching the giant line of people waiting to buy tickets to a nationally recognized comedy club. It seemed like the line would never end, as one person after another handed over cash to see the show. Now, this may [...]

From Commission Junction Like many independent publishers, Jeremy Palmer began working in performance-based marketing part-time. After applying some of the best practices recommended by ValueClick’s Commission Junction and developing his own specialized sites, Jeremy was able to quit his job and work full-time as an independent publisher. Today, Jeremy runs over 100 sites from online [...]

From Start Up Journal While leafing through the Yellow Pages last fall, entrepreneur Mark Bright saw an ad for a recently dissolved competitor listing an out-of-service phone number. On a hunch that readers would continue dialing the number for some time, he arranged for the line’s outstanding calls to be rerouted to his company. Since [...]