Archive for 2006

Many people wanting to work at home do so because they are involved in Home Schooling.
They - and the emerging “Crunchy Con” generation - are skeptical of public schools’ ability to do much more than socialize children in dysfunction.
The rub comes as kids get older. Parents who could adequatly teach basic subjects want their kids […]

Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery, just as k Internet Explorer 7.0.
I can’t find anything about it that Google Toolbar or Firefox weren’t responsible for creating in the first place.
And still, I find it to be a pain to work with! Unfortunately some of the proprietary software I have to use only works properly […]

I ran across a link to this the other day, so here’s the actual blog… the Hundred Dollar Business Blog It’s the real life story of a young lady from Utah applying what she’s learned in college to see if she can actually start a successful business with just $100.
I’m really looking forward to her […]

It’s a brilliant idea. Buy up “remainder space” in huge newspapers so that the newspapers have the steady daily income they need to keep in business and sell it for premium through a bidding mechanism.
The newspapers - screaming for help as the Internet eats away at their readership and ad revenue - have the print space. […]

PayPerPost.com has acquired Performancing.com signalling that the bloggers art is maturing into a science and business model that continues to attract big money and harness the power of the blogosphere to create unique content that helps advertisers get the traffic and search engine positioning they need to succeed.
Performancing.com is an internet community for 28,000 bloggers […]

CNN.com is reporting that during this last Christmas Season, Amazon.com and Netflix.com received greater competition from formerly “brick and mortar only” competitors like Sears.com and JCPenney.com…”If these traditional multi-channel retailers can keep focused on the customer and continue to achieve these types of improvements, they will [become] a tough set of competitors for the pure-play […]

This comment was really only an afterthought in this article in the Fort Wayne IN News-Sentinal but it certainly is thought provoking.
So many people “telecommute�? in Houston, for example, that the “corner drug store,�? catering only to the immediate neighborhood, is returning to some of that city’s suburbs.
Can the increase in telecommuting and the ability to […]

A while back I blogged about the beta of Google Page Creator. I liked it except for the fact that - then at least - you couldn’t host java scripts on your page… including Google adsense. And back then, the pages were all part of a subdomain, e.g. your URL would look like http://yourpage.googlepages.com
Some of […]

The world of Internet Business blogs continues to grow. Sandbergventures.com - the nom de blog for Chris Sandberg - unveils the author’s ruminations about life and business. Some of the posts I’ve found interesting are “Internet Headlines of 2007″ (well, they might  happen) and “Seven Digg Experts” to help you take advantage of Digg for marketing your thoughts […]

According to Jeff and Rich Sloan at Start Up Nation, employing your kids can not only be a great way to teach them entrepreneurship and build family interaction, it can also be a legitimate business expense when well documented. When many families feel they’re breaking apart and travelling in different directions, this may be a […]