Archive for August, 2007

Interested in starting your own home business? Here are 5 Top Home Based Businesses you can start.
From Hartford Business
Home party sales
Home party consultants sell anything from kitchen gadgets and cosmetics to home decor and fashion accessories. Most companies allow you to make money from new recruits. You earn a portion of what someone else sells [...]

A Designer’s Eye is a home based franchise. Here’s how they describe what they do:
A few years ago, we got the idea to offer a new kind of home and garden design service – one that’s affordable, flexible and fun - without the hang ups that sometimes come with hiring a high-end designer.
Now, we’re spreading [...]

From the Orange County Registser
Irvine-based Decision Toolbox is a small business with international reach.
How does the 30-employee job recruiter do it?
Virtually.
That’s right, Decision Toolbox, instead of having a single headquarters in a high-rise office building, has employees work at home from Atlanta to Oregon to New Zealand. That includes Chief Executive Kim Shepherd and founder [...]

From KETV Omaha
She was living a fashion designer’s dream life, creating new lines of clothing for Adidas sportswear.
Denise Ervin traveled the world, and lived in Los Angeles. But the former Omaha costume designer felt that something was missing.
It started with a business trip to China. Ervin was touched by a documentary about orphanages in [...]

Skip McGrath, author of the free ebook
99 Free Tips For Buying & Selling On Ebay
has another great tip here:
How To make $9.95 Extra Income on Almost Every eBay Auction That Closes Successfully
Hey, you might finally find a use for all those pre-written manuals that are for sale online these days. But don’t worry, there’s a [...]

Kevin Anderson was a home business pioneer. He helped thousands start a home business through Cognigen for free but with the potential for significant income. He continued to help the program evolve as the telecommunications industry changed. This morning, word was sent to Cognigen agents of his passing. Here is the press release:
To our valued [...]

Here are two end of summer specials from Trump University.
1. Some pretty hefty discounts at the Trump University - End of Summer Sale on Audio Business Courses.
2. For those of you interested in real estate investing, he’s a coupon for the next Trump University Free Foreclosure Event.
Here’s who’s leading the foreclosure seminar:
After buying her [...]

Google Apps goes global!
As part of our broader effort to make Google accessible to more people in their native languages, we’re announcing a number of updates for Google Apps, our customizable package of hosted communication and collaboration applications for businesses, schools, and other organizations. Several features and components previously available only to English users and [...]

Here’s another scam designed to help identity thieves. Avoid it.
Other than the fact that I live in nowhere’s ville where the only Mandarin speakers are at the Chinese restaurant (which itself is a good clue) cashing checks checks for 10% is a classic scam. Even certified checks, if fraudulent, are no good.
Contact the US Secret [...]

I bought something using PayPal today and I just got this message from PayPal Shipping:
Your package will be shipped by PayPal Shipping with U.S. Postal Service
XXXXXXXXX used PayPal Shipping with U.S. Postal Service to create a shipping label for your package.
You can check the delivery status of your package online at…
When I clicked the link, [...]