Archive for June, 2006

Copyright 2006 Bob Leduc
http://BobLeduc.com
I recently dialed a wrong telephone number and heard the following recorded message:
“Hi. You’ve reached Mike and Kathy. Who are you and why do we care?”
It was immediately followed by the “beep” signaling my opportunity to leave a message. I obviously dialed the wrong number so I hung up. But then I [...]

Update: Current information is available here.This company does not seem to be in business any longer.
The Out2.com Franchise Opportunity could be the work at home franchise you’re looking for.
Why Buy Your Hometown Edition of Out2.com?
* The newspaper model has been the most successful media model in history. It simply lacks the capability to adapt to [...]

108 years ago to fund the Spanish American war, the US Government levied the Telegraph Tax. It’s been collected until recently though by all reports the war was over.
This came out a while back but still hasn’t gotten much play.
Beware those temporary taxes. They stay around forever.
You can get a refund with interest… if you [...]

Companies like the Princeton Review regularly hire folks who’ve done well on standardized tests themselves to prepare others for such tests as the SAT, SAT Subject Tests, PSAT, ACT, AP, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, USMLE, and TOEFL.
Though this is part time, many home based entrepreneurs who want to work in a teaching field find this [...]

Like ebay, Craigslist is an “entrepreneurial engine”. Dane wrote this a while back, but it’s even truer today.
Kottke: “I’d never really thought about it before, but in some ways, [Craigslist] helps lots of people build businesses cheaper and more effectively than more “robust�, complex, and expensive enterprise software solutions. Movers are just one example. CL [...]

I was watching CBS last night about the demise of newspaper classified advertising.
They highlighted a Cyber Cafe specializing in 3 areas…
1. Coffee
2. WiFi
3. Laundry
They called it the “Brain Wash” … and it was doing a booming business.
What fascinated me was how easily in this quasi-residential section of the city where it was located, you first [...]

Want to start a home based business but you just can’t find a “niche” that thrills you?
It may be that James Stephenson’s 202 Things To Make And Sell For Big Profits is just the “brainstorming session” you need to get you going. You may even decide on a variety of related items that [...]

As seen on WSAW TV Wausau WI
The workspace of Sarah Thurs doesn’t look so different from your typical office but just around the corner, you’ll see what makes it unique, her daughter’s playroom. “She understands that when i’m in this setting, there’s a different set of rules”, says Thurs. She’s one of the millions of [...]

Working from home can even take the form of working from an RV.
Joyce Gioia and Roger Herman are married and also business partners. They found that they really didn’t need to rent an office or even BE in any particular location as long as they could have access to email. Here’s part of their [...]

A friend of mine was buying some religious videos online at Ebay.
Though he was leery of the address that was only a post office box, he assumed that someone selling religous would be ethical… NOT.
As soon as he placed the order which never came, they closed down their ebay account so they wouldn’t get any [...]