Archive for October, 2006

Independent Book Sellers are fighting back against big chains and the Internet
Adam Brent knew his 11-year-run selling best sellers and new releases was over when mail carriers started walking into his building to deliver books from Amazon.com to the tenants upstairs.
“Literally, they didn’t walk downstairs or take the time to make a phone call,” Brent [...]

Laws to license various occupations are always created in the name of “protecting the public”. That doesn’t stop bad doctors from malpractice, bad lawyers from shoddy work, or bad accountants from missing tax deductions you’re eligible for.
But it does insure that the bad ones can still make good money as long as their failures remain concealed from popular knowledge.
Seeing [...]

We take water for granted, but water shortages may be more of a problem in the future than oil “shortages”.
Big companies are buying up water purification, desalinization, and other water production plants at top speed hoping to cash in on shortages that will make $3 per gallon for gasoline look cheap by comparison.
(Remember during the [...]

Stateline.org says “Buyers Beware” when purchasing homes. They could be contaminated meth houses as I’ve reported here before.
But the problem is getting worse and the owners of such contaminated properties may make you an “offer you can’t refuse” - until you know the truth about the property and what it will cost to “fix” the [...]

Do you know how to write words that SELL?
If not you need the ebook called Make Your Website Pre Sell
It teaches a critical life skill, one that anyone can do. And yet it is not taught in school.  In the real world, we simply MUST learn to communicate effectively.  The Internet is no exception.
Most people who [...]

Are you tapping into the top 5 sources of traffic for profitable ecommerce sites? Or are you relying on just one or two and missing out on maximum results?  
From PowerHomeBiz
1. Great Products From Company With Excellent Reputation
2. High Search Engine Rankings (”Free” Traffic)
3. Referrals from shopping experience comparison sites, including the use of Google Base
4. [...]

Homestead Technologies (the website people) commissioned a study on home based business and found this list of hot home based businesses.
E-Learning: With advances in new web application tools such as podcasts and video blogs, development costs will decrease.
E-Bay Aftermarket: Helping companies conduct market research, pricing strategies, shipping, and competitive analysis is a great niche business.
Children [...]

Linda was commenting about my Rent A Coder post.
She does her rent a coder work at night and - during the day - is building a family based business primarily devoted to cleaning carpets with a unique process that’s uniquely safe to children, pets, and the environment yet extremely effective for getting up even the [...]

In his article “Think Before You Bank On The Web” Bill Knell dispells many myths about marketing online if you’re planning to start a home business or work at home.
The whole article is worth pondering but here are some points that jump out…
1. There’s no place to make money faster - or lose it faster [...]

Via Dane’s Blog

BeaconNewsOnline.com:
Three years ago inventor Steve Grant was thinking about designing a new kind of desk-top fish tank. He didn’t see any on the market that he liked, and he wanted to tinker with his idea. But he was worried. “So many times the people that I’ve read or heard about commit their life [...]