Archive for June 20th, 2006

  • Last Week in the Business Opportunities Weblog Network

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

    eBay Sellers Seek Outside Networks To Help Grow
    Gbuy Not Direct Competition To PayPal
    Female Entrepreneurs Flocking to Get Into Franchise Businesses
    Showcolate Proving How Sweet It Is To Own Your Own Business
    Home Business for [...]

  • The Problem with Franchises

    MSN (via Franchise Business Opportunities) ran this article on “start easy with a franchise or business opportunity”. Supposedly that’s always the “safe way” to get into business.
    There are great “shortcuts” involved in starting a franchise if you have the money up front.
    I was talking with a friend of mine the other day about his franchise.
    He [...]

  • Savannah GA - Haven For Atlanta Telecommuters

    CNN Money reports that many folks are finding big city wages while enjoying small town living.
    The Creative Coast Initiative is a partnership that promotes the Savannah, GA area and which has attracted many telecommuters from Atlanta based companies.
    Rural communities are looking at teleworking as a way to increase their own revenue base without large expenditures in [...]

  • Online Bikini Auction Reveals Too Much

    IOL - A New Zealand woman convicted of “Streaking” as she dashed across the field during an international rugby match decided to sell her bikini at the Trade Me Internet auction site to recover court costs and fines of about $330.
    Bidding had - by the time of this article - gone to $4000.
    Unfortunately for the auction [...]

  • Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act

    The Telework Coalition is trying to mobilize support for a federal Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act.
    The act stems from state laws in New York that tax non resident telecommuters at New York in state rates even when they don’t reside there.
    You can sign a petition supporting the Telecommuter Tax Fairness act here…

  • Flexibility Technology Drive Boom In Home Based Business

    More people are using their corporate careers to “know themselves”, identify niches they wish to pursue, then pursuing them at home.

    Lisa Wynn, founder and president of Artisan’s Cup, does business around the world. Not bad for a company that is based out of her Greensboro home.
    “There’s no advantage to having an office; no one comes [...]