Archive for March, 2007

Small and home based businesses are like another community entity… the small church.
They share similar strengths and weaknesses. One of those potential weaknesses is that they both feel they have little money to advertise. Both think “If we just had more money for advertising, we’d be bigger and healthier.”
So you might consider this good news: [...]

Last time I checked, there were 60 comments on my post about Cha Cha Invites.
If you have any left, here are plenty of people who want a Cha Cha Invite!

Are you missing out on business because you’re letting a lucrative market slip past you? In the US, for example, one pizza chain found out that Spanish speaking customers paid the same for their pizza, but the cost of advertising on the local Spanish language radio was much less expensive! And word of mouth advertising [...]

The LA Times is reporting that India is actually outsourcing some work to the US.
The Indian Embassy is outsourcing the task of processing visas (travel documents not credit cards) to a US Firm.
There are so many individuals seeking India visas to travel to India, the embassy cannot keep up with demand. So they placed an [...]

From Small Business Trends
FedEx and GotVMail.com have entered into a partnership designed to serve the “go anywhere entrepreneur.�
What the partnership means is that these two companies are working together to come up with a pre-vetted selection of services that help make it easier for us to “go anywhere.� John Joyce, the Vice President of Business [...]

Home based entrepreneurs and work at home telecommuters who want to deduct unreimbursed expenses have gotten a tax break … if they live in the United States that is.
From Smart Strategies
The home office deduction has been greatly expanded by the courts. No longer do you have to use your home office space exclusively for business. [...]

What Do You Do When You’re Discouraged In Your Home Business?
This isn’t really a comment per se, just a question?
What do you do when you’re not making enough money? Things happen to distract you?
Or you’re just worn out and down?
What do you do to cope with the sense that things are messed up?
Any comments?

Bottom line: Costs savings can be up to 40%. But expect some “growing pains” as you make the transition to VOIP.
From Start Up Nation
Cost savings of more than 40 percent is a huge argument for VoIP, and so is the fact that voice and data can run on the same network. But “hiccups� can be [...]

Like other fast growing urban areas, telecommuting or teleworking is of growing importance to ease traffic woes.
From NBC San Diego
City leaders told NBC 7/39 SANDAG is working on a transportation plan that will provide $42 billion to priority areas. They also want to encourage more people to telecommute, carpool, vanpool or use public transportation.

When the subsidies were proposed, everyone assumed 20% of the farms affected would close. Only 2% actually closed. The rest diversified and were strengthened. Gordon Riach should know… he’s been marketing New Zealand woolen products 54 years. When Jack Schultz interviewed him, here’s what he had to say:
From Boom Town USA
In 1984 New Zealand made [...]