Archive for January, 2007

The headline for the article from the Chicago Tribune reads “Home-business rules get tougher”. It’s the article that uses the words “cracking down”. And to be fair to the city, actually Naperville has RELAXED some stipulations on the number of employees who can work at a home business – they’d only allowed one previously. What [...]

Here are some bullet points of my devising based on the article at WebWorkerDaily 1. Deal with the “door” – do you leave it open so your kids can be seen? If not, why are you working at home? 2. Make it the kids’ office too so they have something to do there besides interrupt [...]

Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly Overture) has one of the most popular keyword tools online. Now they have a free video tutorial to show you how to more productively use and find the proper keywords for your marketing efforts… Check it out if you’re doing keyword reserach. Thanks to Tinu for the lead…

If you can make a decent video about your product and write a title that strikes a chord with somebody, you might be able to make some money with YouTube. This real estate salesman is trying anyway. With 20 million viewers per month, you only have to find a few when you’re selling real estate [...]

President Bush is proposing a new Health Insurance Tax Deduction … up to $7,500 for individuals an $15,000 for families to help bridge the gap between those who have health insurance already paid for by an employer and those on Medicare, Medicaid, and other government funded plans. It’s designed to make coverage more universal by [...]

When you can’t pick on the big guys because they can hire expensive lawyers, pick on the little guys because they’ll knuckle under to your intimidation and can’t hire $300 per hour tax attorneys to fight off the predators. Supposedly by attacking small businesses and home businesses, they’ll get more tax revenue…that’s like going big [...]

USBCell is the first in what looks to be a stream of energy efficient recharging devices that will allow you to recharge your cell phone, digital camera, and mp3 player from a USB port. This device keeps battery waste out of landfills and lets low power electronic devices even without access to the power grid [...]

In the work at home world, “Public Domain” courses usually tell you how to snap up public domain books and resell them. But there are manufacturing and other processes in the public domain that a smart organizer could help local folks put into production and then work from home brokering and marketing their products. Ask [...]

A new UK Barter website has gone live SmartBarter.co.uk Here’s their press release. The site has only been online a few weeks. SmartBarter is a brand new concept in online trading, launched in January 2007. It combines the functions of an online trading community with the innovation of a barter site. SmartBarter is aimed, primarily, [...]

An informant who worked for a name brand, huge computer discounter told me some of their systems for messing the customers around royally. So beware of this when you’re buying a computer. Is the tech support and warranty really worth a thing? As a tech support worker this person was required to go through a [...]