Archive for May, 2007

Custom “Flip Books” Return To The Marketing Arsenal. They’re low tech to be sure, but they’re inexpensive, tell a story our “visually oriented” consumers can understand and well – they work.
Flip books deliver full-motion video clip in print. If you’ve got an eye catching commercial, blooper or You Tube video that works when broadcast, chances [...]

This article on Easy Photo Biz has been the blogs most popular post on starting a home based photography business.
Here’s another article on the topic with a few good pointers.
1. Have a theme… pets, old time photos, etc that sets you apart from the rest and relates to an impulse buy people would make after [...]

Just how do economists keep their jobs? The connections some economists draw truly seem insane and you wonder if they really make sense of if they’ve stayed out in the sun too long.
Here’s the latest some “research economists” quoted by the Christian Science Monitor believe the U. S. economy is headed downward because there are [...]

What keeps lots of people from working at home?
Simple… it’s the lack of broadband access. That’s why the places with the lowest costs of living and where people could work at home and thrive on $30,000 to $60,000 per year working 40 hours per week are being left in the dust in places the telecoms [...]

I enjoy getting my Kiva updates by email. Since this blog is all about promoting small and home based business, I thought I’d put my money where my mouth is and support some entrepreneurs overseas with a microloan to get their business going.
I enjoy getting email updates when they’ve repaid part of their loan and [...]

I received the communication below. I am posting it at face value… if you are a medical transcriptionist and wish to follow up on this opportunity, please do your own full due diligence.
We have an immediate requirement for some Home based medical transcriptionists in and around Tx and LA.If interested please revert me with the [...]

The new service from CallWave lets you manage your mobile phone messages on your PC with Free Visual Voicemail. Hopefully it will simplify your work at home life!
CallWave Visual Voicemail enables you to manage your mobile phone messages on your desktop. And it comes in two, easy-to-use flavors that are free and work with virtually [...]

Preparing for the Age of the Distributed Workforce is a white paper on trends pushing telework and telecommuting. It’s produced by a firm that produces the platform that enables companies to work with home based customer service reps.
Our virtual solutions support inbound, outbound and blended environments. Rapid deployment and fast integration with your database or CRM. [...]

Currently the number of teleworkers is estimated at 26 million. Will the number quadruple in 2.5 years? I think it was just quoted to boost home office furniture sales personally. But undoubtedly the numbers will increase as access to broadband and voip increase.
When I looked up the “International Telework Association and Council” I found this [...]

For quite some time Jeff Cornwall at Belmont University has talked about the transition of our economy from mass employment through big corporations into a more entrepreneurial economy. The problem he noted was that government policy was completely out of date serving not just yesterday’s economy but a World War II economy.
But the government is [...]