Archive for November, 2006

Recently a local doctor told a college student not to enter medical transcription because “medical transcriptionists won’t exist in 10 years”.
Of course, with remote doctors, it’s equally possible to say that local doctors won’t exist in 10 years, but I bet she still tells people to go to medical school.
As my wife, a very busy medical [...]

According to the Washington Post the Defense Information Systems Agency will be promoting telecommuting in a new way. Base consolidations mean people with the agency will either have to uproot their families or have an option like telecommuting.
2000 jobs have been identified as suitable for telecommuting and 500 people have been certified to work from home.

I first made some money on the Internet selling recipies at Christmas time.
But even if you’re not selling recipies, it’s just that time of year between Thanksgiving and New Year’s when people are especially interested in new recipies for the holidays.
Hey that’s another reason people like working at home – they can get up for [...]

This business can be RUN from your home in the sense of taking the calls, doing the books, etc. but to make money, you’ve got to spend time in the field.
It’s Crime Scene Clean Up.
There are approximately 170 companies specializing in this in the country.
When there’s a crime and the “Crime Scene Investigators” leave, these [...]

Will your home office be wireless soon? Not wirelessly connected to the Internet – powered by the transfer of energy without “cords” and electrical cables…
The technology is not new. In the nineteenth century Nikolai Tesla tried to demonstrate as much with his own experiments until he ran out of money.
But now the possibility exists that [...]

Due to the fact that eBay, the Internet trading giant, recently announced that it was banning all teacher’s textbooks of any sort, including all homeschool supplies, Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) has launched their own auction website for them to exchange books and supplies.
HSLDA has already signed up more than 1,500 registered users.
Anyone [...]

What most people don’t know when they day dream about working at home is that – at any given time – you can buy a home based business that’s for sale in your area.
Most of the time the folks selling the business have overly optimistic expectations about what their business is worth. Hey, if it’s [...]

Payloadz.com allows entrepreneurs and publishers to sell downloadable media. If you’ve heard about it, it was likely through PayPal… their orginal and – till now – the way people paid for product.
Not any more.
Payloadz.com announces a new partnership with Google Checkout.
This is in addition to the PayPal check out system.
Payloadz.com users get additional free storage [...]

It’s official, I’m the 277,391,305 richest person on earth! (Actually I rounded the figure I put in there, so who really knows? It sounded intersting though.)
Significantly enough, this means that I’m in the top 7% of the world’s richest people.
You may be richer than you think too…
Click through to see for yourself.

I’m loaded.

It’s official.

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Whether you’re selling books online through Amazon.com, through Ebay,or your own website, once you have more than a few shipments going out, it would be nice to simply be able to drop off the packages at the post office instead of having to wait in line for the clerk to individually add postage to [...]