Archive for August, 2006

Dan Pink several years ago wrote about the Free Agent Nation. Suprisingly he was a Clinton era policy wonk … not your typical “entrepreneur” chronicling this development. The transformation continues to unfold as the economy restructures from an industrial base to a technology and service base and people who might have worked in a factory [...]

Just for fun, let’s do some math… Did you know that if you work until you’re 65, and live until you’re 85, you need $240,000 saved up just to “get by” on $12,000 a year? Do you know where you stand right now? 1. Subtract your current age from 65 (85 – ___) =… That’s [...]

From Wired.com A Canadian company has made the jump to cedar-wood 2.0, modding its standard hot-tub enclosure and marketing it as a backyard DIY home office kit. Cedarsheds specializes in gazebos and spa enclosures, and each kit includes a customer survey. The company noticed a demand for home office kits surfacing in the surveys and [...]

According to John Reese, here are 4 Huge mistakes that may be killing your ebay auctions. 1. Listing an item at the wrong time. Always include Sunday till Midnight! 2. Not giving your photos the attention they deserve. Multiple pictures from various angles will ALWAYS help you get higher bids for your products. 3.Using “Las [...]

Here’s the new Weed Burner. It let’s macho gardener types take out their frustration on the weeds by burning them down. Come to think of it, this may be the only way known to man to get me to work in the garden. The question is… are gadgets like this a way for you to [...]

As usual, our politicians fiddle while Rome, in this case America, burns. Raising minimum wages in an era of expanding self employment where business owners are less likely to have employees anyway will increase the likelihood of the unskilled and underskilled finding any work and tend towards more unemployment. From The Entrepreneurial Mind We are [...]

Remember when you were a kid, you’d try to make extra money by having a lemonade stand? Inc.com is celebrating young entrepreneurs and their lemonade stands with The Best Lemonade Stand In America Contest . The winner can receive a $1,000 Savings Bond. So what are you waiting for… encourage a young entrepreneur to enter!

If you’ve got a blog and got the traffic, Blogger Jobs is looking for writers. Here’s the details. From Blogger Jobs Blogsvertise.com is looking for bloggers who are interested in getting paid to post a variety of assigned topic entries in their already-existing blogs. Bloggers will be asked to post short entries on a variety [...]