Archive for January, 2007

I strongly recommend that you read this article from the Gallup Organization on the Four Drivers of Innovation even though it’s geared to larger businesses and not home business per se. The “drivers” of innovation in a company that allow it to be more flexible and competitive are: 1. Engaged Employees who care instead of [...]

Just after the elections I wrote that I expected more gridlock. In the end, gridlock may really be all we get, but in the meantime I naively forgot the posturing and preening that would go on when a certain class of prima donna’s got elected into a majority, even if they had to do it [...]

I personally think these are all pretty good ideas but are they the absolute best for 2007? Perhaps they’re the best for YOU… or perhaps not. In any case, lists are interesting just to see what other people are thinking. This list is from Businessweek via Alfa Mercado and with some of Alfa’s comments as [...]

From The Chattanooga Times Free Press Convergys Corp. will give about 100 Chattanooga-area residents a chance to work from home, company officials announced Tuesday. The company will begin hiring this week and continue through the end of January, Ms. Maedgen said. The first of about five telecommuter training classes is set to begin Jan. 22. [...]

1 in 4 Canadians are working at home at least part of the time according to Canada.com Other findings are that *The number of workers at home is split between office workers telecommuting and work at home business entrepreneurs *As the purchase price of a house rises, the house is more likely to have dedicated [...]

After the 2004 Presidential election, we heard alot about “Red” and “Blue” states and counties. But does telecommuting hold the potential to change older political demographics? This opinion piece at least implies the answer is “yes”. As Blue Leaning Californians with high tech skills find they can migrate to Red leaning states that tend to [...]

Mike Myatt is the  Author of the relatively new N2Growth Blog  which is dedicated to helping boost business growth. The articles at the N2Growth Blog are geared to larger firms, but they can as easily be applied (and should be applied to home businesses and small business). I’ve been browsing through N2Growth and liked his [...]

Marcia Passos Duffy of HomeOfficeWeekly.com has been working at home for 10 years. Amazingly she does this from a relatively slow paced New England town – Keene, New Hampshire to be precise. So how did she get started? Here’s her story… My previous jobs were in New York City working as a writer and account executive [...]

Can Zigire create a social networking site from scratch in just 4 days? Zigire is one of many people wanting to sponsor a post on this blog to get exposure for their website. Most of the time you see these requests like this and you yawn. But this caught my eye… the challenge of creating [...]

HomeOfficeWeekly.com is now live on the web offering a free weekly online magazine to help you balance several critical factors in home business success: business know how, choosing a business, publicity and marketing, time management, plus advice on balancing work and family life. The publisher Marcia Passos Duffy knows her stuff – she’s been working from [...]