Archive for July, 2007

Here’s a great story about a college student. He needed to do an internship for his major, but didn’t want to do what “everybody else did”. A family friend had an existing business that was profitable in its own right. But he wanted to expand onto the internet but he didn’t have the time […]

From IndyStar.com
The top home businesses for this year, according to Entrepreneur Magazine, are planning kids parties and providing services to senior citizens. Some additional are…
1. Home Party Sales
2. Kid’s Party/Event Planning
3. Tutors
4. Senior Services
5. Non Medical Home Care

Here’s the summary:
1. Gasoline (Diesel) tax (and if you are running your car on vegetable oil, you’ll be fined for not paying this tax)
2. Sugar price supports
3. Payroll tax
4. Alternative Minimum Tax - once a “catch all” tax to soak rich people with so many deductions they never paid anything, it’s now reaching the middle […]

One way to get published and get web traffic and potential business is to submit your tips online.
Here’s an opportunity to get published on Start Up Nation
Check it out and submit your business building tip.
It might help make you famous! Or at least expand your “online footprint”.
(Marcia Yudkin used the term “online footprint” in her […]

You might be interested in this… so I’m passing it along.
Free online presentation: Monitoring Online Chatter
Web 2.0 technologies and platforms have changed the game for online
marketers. Thanks to blogs, podcasts, and the democratization of
media, ordinary people are talking publicly about you, your market,
and your competitors. Missing out on that dialog is to the long-term
detriment of […]

Dilbert’s Telecommuting Adventure can be seen here on CNN.com
Here’s Dilbert’s creator on working at home @ CNN
Q: Can you talk about how long you’ve been working, how you came to be working at home and doing what you do?
A: In 1989, Dilbert was first published in newspapers, but I kept my job at Pacific […]

Google is offering a free website optimizer.
There’s just one problem.  You’ve got to HAVE traffic to test for optimization.
But hey, that’s why you have to have an Adwords Account to use it. Hint, hint!
From Google:
Website Optimizer, Google’s free multivariate testing application, helps online marketers increase visitor conversion rates and overall visitor satisfaction by continually testing […]

From JSOnline.com
All That and Then Some Inc., a network of more than 100 women entrepreneurs with their own home-based businesses, has launched a number of invitation-only parties and vendor shows in which their businesses host private shopping events.
More than 10 million home-based businesses exist in the United States, and a majority of people moving to […]

She was chatting on her cell phone to a friend while looking out the living room window when she saw a strange sight: two ladies walking 4 big dogs.
She and her brother were always wanting to find ways to make money.
Could they walk neighborhood dogs and charge $10 per week per dog and - together […]

Want to know how to tie in a Squidoo lense with your blog to take advantage of Squidoo’s traffic as an “authority” site?
Here are some squidoo lenses that link to blogs. See what they’re doing and you’ll get some ideas for your blogging operation.
Marama’s World of Warcraft Blog: http://www.squidoo.com/marama-wow-corner/
Christian Blogging: http://www.squidoo.com/christianblogging/
The Green Blogosphere: http://www.squidoo.com/greenblogs/
Postsecret Blog […]