Archive for September, 2006

What happens when one company with 1000’s of employees relocates to another city and state?
How do those people find apartments, rental homes, etc.
Usually a corporation contracts with the parent company to provide these services.
And they hire local people as independent field reps on a fee per service basis to do the local legwork.
Here’s a typical [...]

People seem to love our posts on tutoring…
So here’s another one.
TutorsWithoutLimits.com is a brand new website that lets you set up your tutoring business on the internet for free.
The creators call it an “ebay like environment” where clients leave feedback. Tutors pay a transaction fee for jobs obtained through this service and, presumably, you’re tutoring my [...]

As some of you know, I have a few pages on the web about Home Medical Transcription.
Basically these pages are about how to know if the field is for you so you don’t waste hundreds if not thousands of dollars training to do this kind of work and then finding out you have to type [...]

Bill Stoller is an expert on using publicity to promote one’s business.
As a keen observer of the publicity industry, he’s noted how some companies with big bucks to spend do publicity and how folks with few bucks to spend can emulate them.
From Bill Stoller at PublicityInsider.com
 Every year, the Public Relations Society of America hands out [...]

Ebay Expert Jim Cockrum tells you how to sell things on ebay that you’re not allowed to sell on ebay.
It’s also an excellent strategy for building a customer list using Ebay’s vast traffic while complying with the rules of that community… Consider it a way to build your list and “break even” in the process [...]

Why are some entrepreneurs able to go into car dealerships and sell the dealer a customer follow up program that costs the dealer $9.95 per customer when others can’t?
It may be that some entrepreneurs have identified what the dealers need…
How does this stimulate your thinking?
Don Alm on the Marketing Best Practices Forum…
When I started working [...]

So you think you have reasons you can’t sell online? Try this: The Youmans family in the rolling hill country south of Nashville, TN only has a dial up internet connection, but that’s not bad enough… they have to turn off the electric fence that borders their farm so they can read their email. Otherwise [...]

The recent discoveries of massive oil reserves in the US Gulf are not hampering voices wanting to cash in on the change to the “hydrogen” economy.
Because South Carolina labs studied hydrogen during the Cold War, the state hopes this preponderance of brain talent will make it the “center of the universe” for switching the US [...]

For Rosalind Chan, cake decorating is both art - sugarpaste artistry to be precise - and a business.
She’s passing along her passion for cake decorating and hopes to find students who will want to learn her art both for the personal fulfillment and the possibility of creating another income stream.
From The Star Online (Maylasia)
In 1997, [...]

Most telecommuting articles assume you’ll telecommute from home.
But what about telecommuting while you travel… what are the in’s and out’s of that?
Here’s a cool article I found on just that topic and a few of the salient features by Rolf Potts…
Justin Mounts, who does contract product management, marketing consulting and simulation development for two different [...]