Archive for April, 2007

Lot’s of people are using Squidoo.com lenses as a traffic building resource for their online business.
Some are trying to use Squidoo and other free sites to target impulse buyers.
The problem is that on the surface, Squidoo.com doesn’t let you put an opt in form on your lenses. That means you can’t use your lense to […]

I showed this photo to my wife. The headline said the photo proves that a man needs a wife for all the important things in life.
She interpreted it allegorically to say that men are “unbalanced”…
What’s your take on it?

I was just visiting with a lady who started working at home in a call center position.
The pay is an hourly base and commission for a major shopping channel. So - she can earn up to $15 per hour! Not too bad for for working at home… especially in rural areas.
This is out in the […]

After the spinach and onion scares, people began to wonder… would it be better to buy my food locally? Hmmm.
I don’t think these scares started the ball rolling, but they didn’t hurt.
Jack Schultz who travels the US helping small towns revitalize noted the trend of local food.
Could you build a home business around creating a […]

Here’s how to stay home based, even as your business grows from Emma Jones
1. Focus on what you do best, outsource the rest.
2. Hire employees and have them work from your home.
3. Hire employees and have them work from their homes.
4. Hire employees and have them work in an office, while you stay at home.
Example […]

What’s the workplace of tomorrow look like?
Anyplace where there’s a wireless connection and a flat surface for your laptop. The new term evidently it’s “telecommuter” for these folks… it’s “RAM” - random and mobile workers. What? You can’t be random in a cubicle?
One bit of good news for the venerable public library. Everyone thought that […]

Circuit City is laying off 3400 workers it believes are over paid. Then they will rehire for the same positions and pay less. They expect to have plenty of applicants. Some may even know something about electronics!
What does it mean?
It wasn’t exactly the “shot heard ’round the world” but it signals publicly what everyone has […]

Liew Cheon Fong, or LcF as he likes to be known, is author of LiewCF.com, one of the most popular blogs in South-East Asia. LcF is Malaysia’s first full-time blogger. You can find his blog at http://www.liewcf.com/blog/
In LiewCF’s own words on the chitika blog
Back in 2005, I was a small webmaster for a local cosmetic […]

The Austin Business Journal reports that the Small Business Administration will be implementing a plan to channel government contracts to women owned businesses. It’s only 6 years late. Good thing that women in the work at home field don’t have to rely on the government to allow them to get started. If you’d been waiting […]

An interesting situation is emerging in the UK that could create unique real estate opportunities for investors and consumers alike.
In the UK real estate market, mortgages were sold called “endowment mortgages”. Endowment mortgages are mortgages where the interest on the principle of the mortgage loan is due. The principle of the loan is covered […]