Archive for June, 2006

From the Sunday Business Post Online A British company that answers queries from customers by sending them a text message, plans to recruit 200 people in Ireland over the next two years. AQA (Any Question Answered), which was launched in Ireland last week, answers 10,000 customer questions a day on topics that range from rail [...]

I’m not sure what this has to do with anything really, but I thought you might want to visit the viral marketing site put out by a French Telecom company that lets you throw tomatoes at cubicle dwellers… consider it a telecommuter’s or work at home entrepreneur’s revenge! Don’t worry, you’ll be able to resist [...]

From the Sunday Times (UK), work from home strategies aren’t designed to create empires, but lifestyles. Call them “Minipreneurs”…70,000 new ones in Ireland alone. Darina Loakman, who runs online businesses advising work-at-home-mums, estimates there are about 70,000 new home-based small businesses in Ireland. “The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor found that about 250,000 new businesses were started [...]

1. Organize your time. 2. Present yourself and your home based business professionally. 3. Maintain good records and credit for your home based business. 4. Make your home based business high tech. 5. Keep inventory and supplies in top order. 6. Keep in touch with other professionals to keep growing. From Donna Marcella on StartUpNation.com

Check your firewalls and net security so you’re not exposing sensitive data, but after that there might be some novelty, fun, or publicity value in creating your own Wi Fi Hotspot. It ought to at least be good for your own local press release! There is also a back end profit center that allows you [...]

Chitika is a relative newcomer on the pay per click block but it is helping publishers who integrate it well find new income streams. One site, GPS Review used Chitika‘s “eminimall” advertising to double his sites revenue. “On May 1st I implemented a new template. The “wireframeâ€? of the site really wasn’t much different from [...]

A while back I posted about opportunities for home based pharmaceutical reps. This particular option may or may not be available still but there may be a growing NEED for it in rural areas where health practitioners may be able to stay in business but there may be fewer options for getting the prescriptions. Why? [...]

Web Auctions like Ebay are helping Middle Americans recover from the vagaries of today’s economy according to this article… Al Losey, a corporate trainer at a Detroit auto parts maker, lost his job six weeks ago in what could be another down-and-out story from a hard luck corner of the American economy. Instead, Losey, and [...]

Chitika has been around for a while offering bloggers and other websites and alternative revenue stream. Because the “contextual” ads feature can be disabled, it does not violate Google Adsense’s terms of service evidently. Chitika has always offered a variety of formats, but the recent upgrade allows multiple products to be displayed, not just one. Instead, customers [...]

Did you know you could set up a free blog at ebay? The free blogs are a recent innovation. Jim Cockrum author of Creative Ebay Selling Newsletter suggest you create a NEW Ebay identity to test these blogs. Being new, nobody’s quite sure what exactly will be allowed. Ebay is very protective about people trying to [...]