Archive for June, 2006

People working from home are notorious for printing their own business cards. Sometimes that’s OK … IF the quality of the card equals or exceeds what you can get locally at the quick print shop. As long as it looks GREAT… people can forgive the fuzzy edges. I was surfing the web and found some [...]

Nature or nurture? People often try to claim “___________ is useless, I don’t have the genetics”… and then assume they’ll never have a successful home business or any business. But when you think about it, nature and nurture are difficult to separate.  Identical twins separated at birth who both grow up to be business owners [...]

Successful Word of Mouth Advertising needs a good story. Sometimes it helps to hire a pr person write that story or ask a reporter for the local paper about what he or she finds “newsworthy”… the story you use for word of mouth advertising should be the same thing that makes a good press release work.  But it [...]

I remember reading years ago that when a society – like the U.S. - produces more lawyers than engineers, then we’ve stopped being productive and entrepreneurial and entered into the cannibalistic phase just before cultural demise. This article though, takes the opinion that the rise in the number of lawyers is a reflection of the lack of confidence [...]

Debra Jones knows all about starting from scratch. She’s started  multi-million dollar companies from her kitchen table — one training mortgage lenders, the other selling nutritional products in several countries.   Here are some tips. 1. Reactivate previous customers. They’ve purchased from you once, see if you can interest them again. 2. DO something instead of [...]

Here’s an intriguing story. Could you start a work from home business with just $1?  A buddy told me he was about to lose his house, in Colorado. He had lost his “day job” and had gone thru his “UNemployment AND his friends and relatives and the bank was about to take over. We were sitting in a [...]

The Federal Government today unveiled a new currency designed to convey the actual inflation adjusted value of the dollar. The new bills are expected to be in circulation fairly soon – in time to match the dollar’s quick demise once Canada, the US and Mexico are linked economically as a Northern Hemisphere Trade Zone. The [...]

Yes, there is a key to boosting your retirement savings by as much as $1.2 million dollars according to ChristianBusiness.net’s Steve Kroening… yet it has nothing to do with the stocks picked. In the study the key difference that improved long term yield was the relative management costs of the mutual funds. Low cost funds [...]

I’ve mentioned the Penturbia theory before… it’s an attempt to predict where the next boom counties will be. As I look at the book, my rural county is NOT supposed to “boom” but because we have low property taxes and no state income tax, our Local Chamber of Commerce receives 2 to 3 calls per [...]

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics as quoted in Start Up Journal CPA’s are growing occupation with a large number of present CPA’s retiring. The sticking point seems to be MARKETING (ever heard that before?). Locally, the CPA I know who seems to be doing the best has a tax franchise. Others seem to want to [...]