Archive for August, 2007

In marketing, you either invest cash equity or sweat equity.
In the only world, sweat equity means … placing manual ads, blog posts, forum entries, etc.
To help you generate traffic and sales through forum entries, you’ll want to download and read Harvey Segal’s “Forum Marketing Super Tips”
Here’s what you get (for free):
Every day across countless thousands [...]

According to Business Week British workers yearn to telecommute.
A survey of more than 1,000 white collar workers, commissioned by mobile phone operator T-Mobile, has found many believe they would be more productive– and creative — if they could work in different locations.
Nearly half (48 per cent) of workers surveyed said a change of scene [...]

Glynn County GA officials are wanting to tax and regulate “home businesses” who employ outside workers. “Home Occupations” where the workers in the business also live in the home like medical transcriptionists, virtual assistants, etc. would possibly be exempt.
From The Brunswick News
It may soon cost individuals more to work out of their homes in Glynn [...]

The biggest danger facing teens using MySpace in addition to predators stalking them is … future employers.
It’s becoming a common practice to search MySpace for profiles of potential applicants. In fact, it can keep you from working and landing lucrative contracts because what you put there (unless you remove it of course) can show potential [...]

I like to promote home businesses whenever I can. Today I wanted to bring this press release to your attention about GoreAdministrativeServices.com:
Gore Administrative Services announces the creation of a new website, www.GoreAdministrativeServices.com , to advance awareness of their full line of virtual administrative, marketing and financial services. Gore Administrative Services is a fully [...]

Arise.com is a well known name in the home based call center business. Their representatives are required to create their own business entities (S Corp or LLC) to work for the firm. That makes it absolutely clear that the call center reps are not “employees”.
It’s nice to hear about real people who work for the [...]

Poorly crafted landing pages can be an Adwords Killer for you! They can decrease your click through rates and get your ads canceled because they appear “irrelevant” to the ad. this link helps understand adwords.
But besides keeping Google happy about your landing page, they must be crafted to keep the customer happy and respond to [...]

The Yarra Ranges Shire (Australia) is offering a free home business start up guide based on research they conducted on 1500 home based businesses.
From the press release at the Star News
A NEW booklet is available for operators of home-based businesses and anyone thinking of starting a business from home.
The book, Home-Based Business: Opportunities for [...]

Here’s what happened to one small business owner when he switched to VoIP and there was an outage.
Read the article and you’ll find it’s no wonder SunRocket went broke… they had razor thin margins!
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From PC World
The problem stems from contractual relationships [...]

I’ve found a number of references to telework and telecommuting in the most unlikely places… the weather reports!
As the summer temperatures spike and people with breathing problems are urged to stay indoors, the weather reporters are urging folk to “telecommute” to work if possible!
I never thought I’d hear that. Or have to wade through so [...]