Archive for June, 2007

The technology available to folks working at home these days is amazing. CallWave is now offering “Voicemail As Text” or VTxt service.
It doesn’t transcribe everything… just enough to give you the gist of the message.
It was just written up in WIRED magazine:
Enter Vtxt, a new service from CallWave that transcribes voicemails and sends them to [...]

This month Bob Evans, 89, founder of what would become the Bob Evans Farms product line and restaurant chain died at the Cleveland Clinic.
The homestead that housed the home business that would become the nationally known chain was in Rio Grande OH.
From BobEvans.com
Bob Evans, founder of the company, lived on the Bob Evans Farm in [...]

It’s great to work at home. The problems come because home based business professionals don’t have the IT support a big business does, at least till now.
Here’s a plan to consider:
Designed for the home based business or “professional consumer” (the professional that uses a PC or Laptop at home or on the road - The [...]

From Desi Baba
Flaws of Greedy Bloggers
No Investing
You keep the money you earn, with it you don’t invest in your blog to improve it. Always relying on free ways to improve your blog isn’t going to get your site anywhere. No matter what, unless you get lucky with Google, your blog will need some financial investments.
Too [...]

The LA Daily News must get around to reporting on home based business only when it’s part of the political dirt of the day. It seems the City Attorney’s wife is accused of running a consulting business from home without paying some tax she’s supposed to pay on her business. The City attorney did however [...]

Some people say only to use “Benefit Headlines”. Others swear by “Curiosity Headlines”.
Here’s Richard Dennis’ opinion. I’ll summarize bits, but you really should read the whole entry on Sowpub.com
Some of my headlines that have built businesses:
“Tomato Warning!”
“Dead Doctors Don’t Lie!”
“The Strangest Nutritional Secret!”
“I REALLY Expected To Be Dead By Now!”
I’ve really tried. I’ve tested [...]

Timothy Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich certainly has a pretentious title! No hype there! Just a ton or so. Or is it hype? Here’s some information on this book you might want to be aware of.
From the Book Description:
What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering [...]

He’s the world’s most hated blogger according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
He had tried to make it big in real estate by “flipping homes” and getting fraudulent loans.
Now the young Californian is $2.2 million in debt and trying to monetize his blog traffic and notoriety to get on with life in Sydney after leaving his [...]

You can even run a franchise without quitting your day job and while working from home according to Start Up Journal. The days where the franchise operator was required to be on site are over and owners are now allowed and equipped to manage the business remotely.
One owner interviewed monitors his Arlington, VA business from [...]

This is for people who are in the note brokering business. They find people who have a cash flow note to sell and then find a buyer who will pay a lump sum. The broker keeps the commission. When you’ve found a cash flow owner looking to get a lump sum, you complete a worksheet [...]