Archive for February, 2007

Can you get to Charlotte NC in April 2007? If you’re trying to take your home based business to the next level, you’ll want to make plans to attend The Newbie Summit.
Vondre and Ty sell real products to real people. They specialize in straightforward businesses that serve unique niches.
Now you can learn what they do, [...]

Sounds like a good plan. The only “small neighborhood businesses” in Philly that weren’t plagued by the bureaucracy when I lived there were crack houses. A friend who tried to start a home film processing business (long before digital photos of course!) had his business shut down by the city even though it caused no additional [...]

I’m sick with a stomach bug, but thought I’d pass this along to show how things change and keep changing.
From the Globe and Mail
STOCKHOLM — For centuries, readers thumbed through the crackling pages of Sweden’s Post-och Inrikes Tidningar newspaper. No longer. The world’s oldest paper still in circulation has dropped its paper edition and now [...]

Yes, I finally got to see my picture on 2000 Bloggers! That and $4 will get me a Starbucks I know. (Actually I don’t know… the only Starbucks around here is in the convenience stores in bottles. It’s been forever since I’ve been in a real one and that was several years ago.)
But I did [...]

Dragon Slayers’ Guide to Life: Via Dane
Going from over a decade of salaried work in a licensed profession where I had a clear role and status to full-time self-employment in a profession that is a bit like the Wild West was not without it’s challenges.
If you are an entrepreneur or considering making the leap, here [...]

The Wall Street Journal:
The social-networking bandwagon is getting awfully crowded.
For companies looking to better connect with consumers and build brand loyalty, social networks are increasingly looking like the ideal tool.
Users get a forum in which to share information, pictures and videos about themselves and their likes and dislikes — and, companies hope, talk up a [...]

Will spouses take each other for granted if they both work at home? Here’s one perspective on the subject.
But if “absence” always does “make the heart grow fonder”… why do marriages break up because of relationships that develop at work?
The part that I think is universally applicable is that we all need to have real [...]

Angel Food Ministries is a faith based food ministry that is growing rapidly and should soon be able to serve the entire USA. What I’m about to tell you may sound too good to be true if you know people who are having a hard time making ends meet, so before I tell you that, [...]

Aksimet the spam comment catcher must be down for maintenance.
I guess that because all the spam slime porn scam freak comments are coming through and I’m having to delete them by hand!
I can’t tell you how much I loathe these things because they insert their filth and junk into the viewing of people who come [...]

One of the barriers to working full time at home or in a small business is the cost of health insurance. One of the biggest factors in the soaring costs is the price of medication. The system for approving drugs for certain diseases is rigged to favor deep pocket, patentable players. Things you buy now [...]