Archive for November, 2006

On November 14th, 1915, Booker T. Washington died. Born into slavery, he had to teach himself to read. He formed Tuskegee Institute in his mid-twenties and recruited George Washington Carver to teach agriculture. Washington turned Tuskegee into an entrepreneurial incubator because no graduate was allowed to leave and consider themselves “educated” until they had learned [...]

A fellow blogger I enjoy reading – Alfa Mercado – tells people how to work at home from Alfa’s base in the Phillippines. The other day Alfa recommended learning how to earn money by working with Review Me. Review Me is paying out $25,000 to bloggers who review their site to pay for reviews.    

Karen Deis of LoanOfficerSeminars.com is offering a webinar on how to sell to Gen-X Homebuyers on Wednesday, November 15th. She’s a professional mortgage representative who teaches others how to market mortgages to increasingly difficult sales markets. They are 37 million strong and they are not like any other generation you have ever experienced working with. The [...]

I’ve been taking requests for Cha Cha Invites. From what I understand they’re on hold for now. So, for the time being, I will not be able to honor your requests for Cha Cha invites.  I’ll let you know when this changes.  

If you want to know how to write a business plan, this link will put you in touch with some important resources that are – best of all – totally free. Once there, you’ll find a variety of free resources to help you get started and do a good job. The resources at the site [...]

When Ross Perot ran for President, he talked about the dangers of NAFTA saying that it would create a “Giant Sucking Sound” as jobs fled the United States. Now, Ross Perot’s company, Perot Systems, is taking advantage of cost savings south of the border and opening a service center in Mexico to serve U.S. companies seeking [...]

Russell Brunson is promoting his new “Conquer Your Niche” marketing forum. It allows you to get free advertising credits whenever you make a post or read a post, so it definitely has some potential. I’ve seen so many dang ads for it in my email though, I’m almost embarassed to post a link. There’s a [...]

Google Adword arbitrage has paid off handsomely for some folks. They’d buy a cheap Google keyword traffic to pages with high paying Google keywords and pray for clicks. Sometimes this made really good money. But changes at Google allowing advertisers to reduce payout on content netowork ads made it less profitable. Now a new Google [...]

Could it be that the self employment you seek involves providing a charitable service?   J.T. Houk, CEO of the National Heritage Foundation likes to say that “for every hurt, there’s a helper”. In the essay “Entrepreneurship in Charityland” he posits that quite possibly the “new frontier” of entrepreneurship is not in manufacturing or elsewhere but [...]

I’ve been scanning the news for talk about what’s going to happen to businesses now that there’s been a shake up in Washington. The more I look at the news, the “freshman class” of new legislators is largely conservative. Let me call them “Red Dogs”. Whatever the party they had to run as fiscally and [...]