Archive for June, 2007

Do you need a professional real estate agent to sell your house?
The answer to that question has important ramifications for people pursuing real estate as a home based business.
According to CNN/Money 
Economists conducted a study on whether paying for a real estate agent was worth the money, when having to pay 5 or 6 percent commissions, [...]

I’ve posted a link to my article on writing resumes. With a telecommuting resume, the issue isn’t the form so much, but the impact it must create.
Like all resume’s it must meet the needs of the reviewer: “I will not look like a fool for interviewing this person and I might look brilliant.”
But the telecommuter’s [...]

When you think about it, any marketer - even one working with referrals -is a “database marketer” even if the prospect list is some 3″ x 5″ cards or a yellow page list. The question is… how likely is your “database” to produce results? That depends on the information in contains and how closely it [...]

When they sentenced that spammer to jail the other week, we were told Spam was going to be decreasing “noticably”.
I wonder who’s going to notice it and when?

This is from James Jones and it highlights the 5 top ways for new people to make money online.

1. “Create Articles to Promote Affiliate Programs and Collect Regular Commissions”
This is known as article marketing or Bum Marketing as coined by Travis Sago. Travis calls it “Bum Marketing” because he says it’s so simple that you [...]

From Ankesh Kothari’s http://www.MarketingHotsheet.com
Indy Lube is a quick lube-chain with 28 outlets in all. Indy Lube attracted most of its new clients because of their good location and through newspaper advertising.
One day, its CEO Jim Yates sat down and calculated the total amount he spends on
promoting Indy Lube. And the number of new [...]

Craigslist is considering the expansion of charging fees for help wanted ads.
The 12-year-old company first charged a $25 fee in San Francisco in 1998, adding the fee in Los Angeles and New York in 2004. It has since added the fee in Boston, San Diego, Seattle and Washington, D.C. The fee has climbed to [...]

Update: This offer will be honored through Noon Central Time Monday 6/11/2007 
If you’ve been reading this blog, you know I’m very excited about Luke Parker’s Sure Fire Success System that’s built around the Associated Content publishing system.
I’m making a special offer this weekend:
1. Sign up for Associated Content Associated Content if not already signed up.
2. [...]

If you’re in real estate and your “farming” apartment complexes for first time home buyers or you’re in the mortgage business and you’re trying to get sales by pre-qualifying first time home buyers so they know how much “house they can afford”, there are 2 key times to reach them.
On average, nationwide, most apartment dwellers  [...]

There’s a new wave of tax audits looming this fall. This is from the IRS press release:
IRS Updates National Research Program for Individuals
IR-2007-113, June 6, 2007
WASHINGTON — Internal Revenue Service officials today announced plans to launch a new National Research Program (NRP) reporting compliance study for individual taxpayers that will provide updated and more accurate [...]