Archive for August 28th, 2007

Here’s another phony “Work At Home Job” posting at Craiglist.
You wonder how these companies get to leave their URL when legitimate ads for products and services for sales are axed because Craigslist calls them an affiliate link when this is nothing more than an affiliate link and the whole thing about a job and base […]

Here is a great idea for geographical post card marketing that someone sent me today.
Some businesses operate by targeting a neighborhood again and again because, odds are, someone there will be in the market to buy another home, move, do home maintenance, etc. Real estate agents call this “farming”.
But mortgage brokers do it as […]

The Agurban Institute’s goal is to help communities transition into the economies of the future. But perhaps it will help you if your personal economy is in transition.
From the Agurban Institutes’s ezine…
So what, you wonder, is next?
Well, Intuit and the Institute for the Future have done some thinking about just that question, and what […]

As every real estate wannabe knows, “flipping” home is supposed to be one of the tried and true techniques of the business. This report from Reuters blames “investors” and “scammers” for the demise of a once nice neighborhood.
“Flipping” though is traditionally though just taking a property bought at discount, sprucing it up and selling […]

I found this amazing - 42% of IBM’s 350,000 employees could work at home? Evidently according to the ABC report. It saves them $100 million in real estate costs annually. There are drawbacks however - some joke that IBM means “I’m By Myself”.
Now they have to schedule time to get together to build camaraderie.
One […]

I don’t know any work at home businesses that routinely use television routinely. If they do it’s likely local cable or public access, not network TV.
This Google expert says traditional TV is about dead.
I think he’s living in his own little cyber world however because what he says presumes the easy access to high speed […]