Archive for July, 2006

Launch Net is making “Naked” DSL available to Small Office/Home Office folks who want to “Lose the Phone Company”. For as little as $39.95 per month, you can operate without the phone company and their hassles! Click here to check availability in your area…
Naked DSL is designed for users who want standard DSL [...]

That was the gist of the ad for work at home moms/dads on Craigslist.
Read it carefully and you’ll find it’s like the old mail order scam…“How I get $20 bills in the mail every day! Send $20 to….” (And the last time I checked, 35 x $20 = $700 not a thousand, but why demand [...]

Bob Leduc of BizTipsLetter.com 
“What was the best response you ever got to a marketing postcard and is it something that is still working now?”
* Answer:
To be accurate, I have to answer your question twice …first for postcards sent to existing customers then for postcards sent to complete “strangers”.
(1) The best response I got (and still [...]

I found this interesting as someone who purchases dozens of used books on Amazon.com and to a lesser extent Half.com. I find that many of the books can be purchased for the price of media mail shipping $3.49 + a few bucks making my average book purchase $6 to $10 and most of that going [...]

From AuctionBytes Via PowerSellerKing
Outraged at auction fee increases for eBay Stores… one ebayer tries to demonstrate the “Core” of the problem.
One listing stated that the auction for “eBay’s ear” is the seller’s contribution to restore the magic store sellers seem to have taken from eBay, referring to eBay CEO Meg Whitman’s comments to analysts on [...]

What a relief, someone actually said what we knew all along… working at home can be hard work.
It requires discipline we wonder if we have.
It demands compartmentalization in an uncompartmentalized environment.
The 30 second commute offers little time to put on our “business face”.
The distractions in the cubicle which are only daydreams floating through our minds [...]

Have you ever gone into someone’s home, office, or business and seen a newspaper article elegantly preserved and framed?
People love seeing themselves in print and like sharing the news with their family, friends, customers, and patients.
Here’s a home business opportunity I saw recently. I can’t vouch for the company, but some of you have enough [...]

OK… you have built a huge MLM downline.
You have thousands of distributors on monthly autoship.
You’re raking in thousands of dollars in profits monthly.
There’s just one problem… you have found the next great project to devote your life to and you need a cash infusion. You realize you won’t be able to work the old opportunity [...]

Telecommuters find that the loneliness and isolation of always working at home may make working from home less attractive in the long run unless human contact can be created to offset the problems of “working remote”.
From EMarketer
When Chuck (Tom Hanks) was stranded on a remote island in the movie Cast Away his only conversation was [...]

Mainland Chinese are moving to home employment by the score thanks to the Internet and a growing internet auction access.
From Fast Company
Mchael Cai grunts as he rummages through a pile of 500 stuffed animals in his Shanghai storage locker. “It’s in the back here!” he says, pushing through a stack of plush Winnie the Pooh [...]