Archive for September, 2006

Are you getting into business to give yourself a new job or a life? Here are 5 keys to escaping the job mentality so you can move ahead with your dreams.
From Escape From Cubicle Nation :
1. Start with What kind of work am I meant to do?, not What kind of business should I start? […]

Ebay may face a bigger threat than Google eating up it’s business. What’s that? A power mad Attorney General suing them for polluting the air? No, that’s the auto industry.
Ebay’s problem is disgruntled “name brands” claiming the items sold on the auction platform bearing their trademarks are phony.
And how, precisely, is ebay to know they’re […]

From ecommerce-guide.com via Dane’s Blog
Di Ana Ford’s mission is to keep women pampered, healthy and in business. She started out her first home business, a direct-sales home party business that hosts at-home spa parties for women.
In the course of researching products for her parties Ford stuck to solely women-owned, women-made products.
Many of the women had […]

For some people the ideal home based business counseling children or some other activity best carried out as a non profit entity.
It’s not that these services don’t generate income… often significant income… but they’re not intended to create marketable equity for a public or private sale.
This is especially true if grants are sought. Despite all […]

One thing that keeps people from taking the “entrepreneurial plunge” is not fear of failure per se.
It’s the nagging question about medical coverage and a safety net in case of a catastrophic illness or in other cases the cost of ongoing medical treatment.
What’s the news?
Wal Mart announced a pilot project to sell 30 day supplies […]

In July 2003, one of those Mississippi disasters happened, but not the Katrina kind.
The International Paper plant employing 640 people in Natchez, MS closed, laying off 640 employees.
Ripple effects in the community caused more to lose their jobs, inlcuding truckers, loggers, and other small businesses. The real total loss was probably closer to 800 […]

Joe Karbo wrote perhaps the first book on the subject of “The Lazy Man’s Way to Riches”. It was a best seller. Maybe you’ve heard of it. Gordon has for years sold his “trade secrets” of making money buying and selling used personal property for fun and profit. His course that he sells directly, that […]

Mississippi has even before Katrina, suffered it’s share of economic disasters.
I want to use this post to talk about some of the stuff I learned while at a recent conference in Mobile AL.
Mobile was temperate and - downtown at least since I didn’t really go anywhere else - was clean and friendly.
The restaurants on Dauphin […]

If you’re on the verge investing in one of those “get rich in real estate” courses, it could work. Or it could not. Keep reading…
One out of five flippers who sold a home from April to June of this year lost money on the deal, says HomeSmartReports.com. That’s the highest ratio of losses in two […]

So what’s up with Bullionvault.com? According to their marketing, they’re a revolutionary new way for individuals to buy and sell gold bullion online, in a selection international vaults - in London, New York or Switzerland and I’d tend to agree.
From the home business perspective, they cause some confusion.
I get this question from time to time […]