Archive for November, 2006

StartUpNation has an interesting post on 8 Steps To Blogging Success focusing on how a business can use a blog to help your business.
Writing an active, engaging blog for your business helps define your brand, raises your profile, drives traffic to your site and pays big bonuses for a fatter bottom line.
Here’s what I got out […]

I heard Lasershield being promoted on Rush Limbaugh’s show and immediately thought “What a great system for a budding home business!” If you can operate a portable phone, you can work this. You plug it in to the wall outlet and that’s about it! It comes in at under $200. You may also want […]

Wanting to find a hot trend you can cash in on?
Brent Whinfield sent out an interesting piece on using blog postings to spot trends by using http://www.blogpulse.com/trend.
You type in search terms and see how the blogosphere responds over time to that topic.
Some items are time sensitive like “Kramer’s” latest gaff.
But you can use this tip […]

The Marketplace For Entrepreneurs is coming to the Fargo Dome on January 17th, 2007.
The Marketplace offers participants a variety of workshops and exhibits relating to starting a business, entrepreneurship, finding funding and inventions.
You can download their 2006 Resource Directory here for free.

Tory Johnson at the New York Post has an excellent article on emerging work at home opportunities.
Gloria Clark was working in a call center selling tickets to Broadway shows and wanted to do customer service work like that at home. She’s doing that through Willow CSN. Others are working through VIPDesk.com as virtual “concierges”.
In addition to […]

Who’d have thought there’d be a market for London English School in the birthplace of the English language? But evidently there is! Because of the economic opportunities involved and the desire to just be able to carry on a conversation, it’s viable for folks to have their own English School in London! Here you can see […]

Many people would like to develop real estate portfolios that let them work from home. Some less adventurous but equally entrepreneurial would like own a duplex, live in one side, and rent out or sell the other side to leverage their finances. Some folks buy four-plexes and rent out three so their renters can pay off […]

Many people don’t realize that we cook legumes and other seeds to increase their digestibility and nutrient availability. Otherwise, chemicals in the plants would sicken us.
Some plant products defy such home grown processing - the cotton seed was one. Until now.
As reported in the Christian Science Monitor, a new genetically engineered form is being developed which […]

What do Intel, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, Ebay, Google and many other companies have in common?
The Wall Street Journal reminds us that behind each of these economic “engines” are immigrant entrepreneurs.
A new study from the National Venture Capital Association finds titled “American Made: The Impact of Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Professionals on U.S. Competitiveness” found that
“Over the […]

If you’ve ever thought about growing a garden to make extra money, now may be the best time in a very long time to get ready for planting next spring thanks to a growing trend: Locavores.Locavores want food with the maximum nutritional value - not picked green and ripening in the back of a truck somewhere.
Mel […]