Archive for January, 2007

CBS had an excellent article on home business yesterday.  It’s well worth reading. One fellow,Steve Mondazzi, had a passion for working in his home wood shop. After a series of family pets died and Steve was called upon to make their caskets, the business PetsWeLoved.com was formed.
Jeanne DeGatan started Cape May Teddy Bears based on her hobbies six [...]

I think, overall, that Bush’s health insurance deductibility plan is a good move to make competition enter the field. But it may end up raising taxes for some.
Right now, the cost of health insurance isn’t taxable to employees. Under the new plan, everything your employer pays for you will become taxable income. People whose employer [...]

USA Today had an article on how easy it is for con artists to steal your home out from under you. I’ll quote one of them here, but it’s worth your time to read the whole article. I’m especially concerned because people who want to make some money “working from home” could easily respond to [...]

MySpace has become a very popular place for people to market a variety of marketing efforts.
Some options for marketing on MySpace have been shut down however.
I received word today that at least one CPA network has banned all traffic from myspace and all people with offers on the site for this network are required to [...]

Here’s a free 50 page ebook from Mike Enos called “Ebay Zero to Ebay Hero” if you’re looking for an introduction to trading profitably on the huge auction site.With Mike, it’s not speculation because he has shipped over 15,000 eBay packages worth over $800,000 and still sells each and every day on eBay.
Here are some [...]

So says StartUpJournal
I’ve not personally used it, though I have used Google’s Adwords. Specifically Yahoo “upgraded” the sysem but small business feels they got the short end of the stick. Look at the following example and you’ll see the Wall Street Journal’s idea of a small business - $10,000 per month only ad budget! If [...]

Terry Platt tells how as field inspector he runs across extra income opportunities. It’s all in a day’s work. Note how one couple used the field inspection business to cover their expenses while identifying inventory for their ebay business!
If you read my post yesterday, you will have read about the books I picked up for [...]

One of the benefits of telecommuting or working at home is being free from the “epidemics” that can sweep through an office building or school (some schools near me are using “snow days” to shut down as “flu days” since we have no snow problems but massive flu problems this year!)
But everybody has to go [...]

Packet8, a leading provider of Voip Phone technology is now offering a home fax service. It seems ideal for home offices who need a fax and want to use VOIP technology. Here are the details…
Packet8 is now offering residential fax service for customers. Subscribers receive 300 minutes of outgoing faxes plus unlimited incoming faxes for [...]

Marcia Yudkin makes an excellent point in her weekly coaching ezine about marketing. Can Google Adsense ads make you look foolish if you’re supposedly making your money providing professional products and services?
Imagine being ushered into the office of an elite investment advisor.  The decor includes rich, dark woods, antique Persian rugs and designer lamps.
Then, instead [...]