Archive for July, 2007

From the Urbana News Gazette
In the past four or so years, the media have reported that sewing, particularly among Generation X’ers and younger craftsters, has become the new knitting. Sewing machines and patterns are “flying off the shelves,” due in part to the popularity of television shows such as “Project Runway.”
Urbana resident Nora Miller, who [...]

From the Honolulu Star Bulletin and www.GetCoachedforFree.com.
Martha Barletta, author of Marketing to Women, points out that men prefer to occupy a pyramid, whereas women prefer to occupy a peer group. That’s why online social-networking groups like MySpace, Ryze and eCademy are growing in popularity with women; bringing the businesswomen who participate in these groups more [...]

Are you an expert on something? Here’s a way to make some money for your knowledge. Having a back end website to refer people to or book to sell wouldn’t hurt either if the field you’re working in has the demand.
From Start Up Journal
Web site: Bitwine.com
How it works: Users register with username and email, [...]

Iframes were very helpful on Squidoo for making the lenses more useful and hosting email sign up forms and other tools.
Like about everything else on the web the porno perverts have destroyed it for everyone else as they sought to use Squidoo for their own sick purposes.
Here’s the announcement.
Iframes
When we built Squidoo, we knew there’d [...]

I got a question from an individual in the home improvement field. This person wanted to transition from making all their income offline and start making money online.
Where to begin?
Here are some ideas I passed along that build on the person’s knowledge and experience and - from what I was told in the email - [...]

Chuck’s Note: You can read all our LiveOps related posts here. You can check here if you’re coming to this page because of an outage at the LiveOps site. 
I was talking to a friend of mine.
He was telling me what it’s like to be a home based call center representative for LiveOps.com
Basically he [...]

Broadband access is essential for the growth and competitiveness of small business and home based work at home business. So the fact that the growth of broadband access seems to be slowing is troubling. Big firms are competing for the low hanging fruit of broadband customers living in the major metro areas while many who [...]

It’s not just the American family farm in distress. French vineyard owners who hoped to pass the vineyard and family business on to their children are facing increasing distress. Suicide and threats of violence (and the actual use of dynamite) have already been associated with the three year old farming crisis.
From the Telegraph
Local wine producers [...]

Google has just bought the telephone service GrandCentral Communications according to the Silicon Valley San Jose Business Journal.
This sounds like a brilliant idea. It’s like Google’s integrating instant messaging directly into their web mail application so you can IM the people you email who are on the service. But do we really want Google having all our [...]

Tomorrow, the United States celebrates Independence Day.
Americans still seek independence and self-direction. Experts tell us that the future of our economy lies in more entrepreneurship, not less.
But there’s an ideology at work that wants to control entrepreneurship and manage change by promising “results” though to date there are few positive results to show.
It’s the ideology [...]