Archive for 2006

If your home business involves selling online through Amazon.com, hopefully you got your share of the sales in what Amazon.com is calling their best holiday sales season ever according to Breitbart.com, taking 4 million orders on December 11th alone.

The voters have spoken and the State of Alaska is getting rid of an unpopular jet that residents considered another evidence of government waste.
To get as much revenue from the sale as possible and eliminate worries about favoritism, etc. they’re selling the plane on Ebay according to Aero News.

http://www.emergencyemail.org/ lets you receive notification by email as soon as a national emergency broadcast goes out, or one affecting your area. You can configure the service to contact you by email or cell phone.
Depending on your area (some areas have more systems on this communications network) you can be notified about
1. Severe weather alerts
2. Homeland Security […]

Foxnews.com reports today that Mountain Lions may be going blind because of the STD, chlamydia. 
I guess that will finally teach those Mountain Lions to stop catting around!
It’s a real story, I just couldn’t resist making an insane comment… back to the work at home business opportunity information.

I remember the Christmas when I found myself hard at work in the middle of the day. I realized then “Chuck, you’re a workaholic!”
So here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas - and a relaxing one so that you don’t fall into my bad habits.
To lead by example, I won’t be posting any today so you […]

Lillie Warren, a registered nurse, was on maternity leave with a child when she had a brainstorm to provide home health care to her rural county… despite the fact that she had NO business experience whatsoever.
A few years later her business grossed $975,000 and employed 70 CNA’s (Certified Nursing Assistants) providing rural home nursing care. […]

The news services are reporting that President Bush has come out in favor of a rise in the minimum wage as long is it is coupled with tax cuts and regulatory relief.
I’ve commented on the subject before here. I believe that whenever the government raises the minimum wage above a level dictated already by local […]

It’s time to create your own media plan for 2007! Here’s a great post on the topic from EscapeCubicleNation.com
I have had my eyes opened wide this year to the value of getting mainstream media to notice and promote products and services and to include expert quotes in articles.  Through the sole vehicle of this blog, […]

Just because a “work at home” opportunity is on Monster.com, it doesn’t mean it’s legitimate. Here’s how several people got snookered by a work at home scam that sounded oh so real. It’s not only proven financially devastating to many, it’s broken up families in the process.
From EastBayExpress
When Bill Gluth saw the work-from-home sales job […]

Home businesses don’t always stay small. Sometimes they become wildly successful and go world wide. That’s what happened to Cabela’s. After a less than promising start Dick Cabela observed what other successful marketers did and tried his own hand. An eternal optimist, he kept at it and outgrew that kitchen table mail order business in […]