Archive for 2006

PartyLinePublishing.com has a low tech website, but don’t let the lack of graphics fool you… they’ve been around the media world for years and publish a weekly run down of publicity opportunities you might choose to use for your business if you operate on a national level.
Here are some recent ones in addition to the […]

By Patricia Fripp

*The best direct mail letters are conversational in nature, rather than formal and overly businesslike
*You should start by carefully and clearly defining your objective for the letter
*Pay close attention to who your target audience is for the letter, and write speaking directly to the people in that audience about their most pressing concerns, […]

Dogbert’s doing retirement plan seminars these days and he has a unique idea for generating income in retirement. Unfortunately, not everyone liked his plan…

Decide for yourself…

From Home Town Source
When Cyndi Webb first got pregnant, she toyed with the idea of working from home. More than 12 years later, the Rosemount resident is able to raise her two children, all the while running her national Web site, Moms Network.
“I was joking with my boss about working at home, and he granted […]

Skip Rosell is one of my favorite writers.
He’s creative yet humble. Lot’s of people want to score big off you and sell you a $200 program (or more) and to do that they have to imply you’re going to be living like Donald Trump in return.
So how many times has that happened to you?
Skip is […]

From TV Week:
Wayne and Tyna Donelson, 56 and 54, don’t have much time for most mass media. A married pair of small-business owners who work from home in rural Massachusetts, they subscribe to the local paper and a few magazines, rent DVDs voraciously and, thanks to Comcast’s video-on-demand package, watch yet another movie together every […]

From the Missourian…
On a typical morning, for example, Gabe DeArmond gets his 8-year-old son, Taten Lyngstad, ready and off to school. DeArmond spends the rest of the morning taking care of Turner, until his wife, Janel, who works part time as a production assistant at KOMU-TV, comes home about noon.
Janel takes care of Turner […]

These companies use virtual agents or home based reps to serve customers in the “homeshoring” trend…
LiveOps:With LiveOps you can earn up to $15/hour just for talking on the phone. And having a home based business saves big on commute time and dry-cleaning costs. Who can beat that?
West Corp: West is the nation’s premier provider […]

From Small Business Trends via Dane
Homeshoring is the use of home-based workers, such as customer service agents. Through the use of technology, home-based workers can log onto company systems seamlessly to do their work. They just need a broadband Internet connection, a phone line and a computer. The person at the other end of the […]

It’s easy to look out the window and say “There’s no opportunity here…”.
But what will your county look like in 14 years? Could it be one of the emerging “boom counties” that just looks like a backwater today?
Or could you be experiencing the tail end of an economic boom that is destined to leave your […]