Archive for October 2nd, 2006

  • Virtual Companies May Replace Telecommuting?

    Blogger Pamela Slim of Escape From Cubicle Nation is quoted at length in the Boston Globe!
    Why? She opines that with the advent of the “virtual company” there may be fewer brick and mortar businesses to “telecommute” to.
    Pamela Slim, who blogs at Escape From Cubicle Nation, says a perfect storm of factors is converging to make […]

  • Low Cost Marketing Ideas From The Pizza Business

    Looking for low cost marketing ideas you can apply to a small or home business?
    According to Start Up Journal here’s what CiCi’s Franchisee Randi Papporello of Des Moines, IA does to keep people marching through her doors.
    1. Newspaper inserts (coupons & specials - $2,300)
    2. Ads on Hispanic radio stations ($300 per month = 50 spots […]

  • Best and Worst Places to be in Business

    If job growth is an indicator of the overall business climate in general, then here are some of the best and worst places to be in business. The more businesses in general, then the more likely there will be customers for service related home businesses and telecommuters.
    Florida has the fastest job growth overall with the […]

  • No Easy Answers To Online Click Fraud

    Evidently the “solution” offered by some is part of the problem according to Google.
    From The Silicon Valley Business Journal
    In the face of estimates that anywhere between 14 percent and 35 percent of the click-throughs Google was charging advertisers for weren’t real Web site visitors, advertisers are looking for independent verification.
    But Google claims the third party […]

  • Outsourcing Homework E-Tutoring Booms

    According to Reuters, an increasing number of U.S. students are “acing” their classes because the Internet suddenly allows even “middle class” students afford highly specialized tutors.
    Though U.S. tutors charge $25 to $100 per hour, well beyond the reach of many families (especially for multiple topics), some families are no able to contract with Indian science, engineering, […]