Archive for August, 2007

This is a well written and well researched article on LiveOps.com that confirms what I’ve written before but is worth the read if you’re interested in the home call center world. Again, here’s another article mentioning the $7 to $20 per hour figure for working at home with the company… if you are good with [...]

This is a very interesting article. For me it also documents the emergence of a strong local base of work at home moms as a growing “niche market” in a fairly rural region. At least Maine seemed to be mostly “Woods” when I was there last summer!
From Kennebec Journal (Maine Today)
Walk into Blessed Baby Boutique [...]

Knoxville TN recently hosted a “Work From Home Job Fair” for people living all throughout East Tennessee. One dominant motive was to be able to stay home while the children were small so they could receive more attention and affection. They felt they were losing their child’s prime growing years in the corporate world.
The sad [...]

The universal plea of people hoping to break into a field is “Let me prove myself!”
YouTube may be just the way to do it as this article from the Boston Business Journal shows.
Two aspiring advertising pros used YouTube and $100 in capital to produce a commercial they hoped would get them noticed.
What started as a [...]

I enjoy loaning money through Kiva.org to help small businesses overseas- when it get’s paid back. That way I can keep it cycling through to help others. Once seed money is lost, it’s lost forever and won’t recycle.
I’ve got two loans that are seriously delinquent now and I learn that the organization that is the [...]

Here’s a great article from the Womma Blog on how McDonald’s - one of the world’s biggest advertisers is using word of mouth and viral email to promote their latest products.
Most home business operators aren’t savvy enough to emulate the viral email strategy, though it is interesting.
But many could use a viral video if it [...]

Here’s another story about a mom balancing work and family life… even with triplets. Careful planning and attention to the business before the babies came made the transition to triplets “doable”.
From the Boston Globe:
Mary Beth Stevenson always assumed she would remain a full-time professional even after having children. Doug, her husband-to-be then, on the other [...]

Associated Content will be providing a collection of home improvement advice and tutorials for a major website. This is a great opportunity to get syndicated and increase your exposure.
If you have direct remodeling, design and DIY experience and an interest in writing 10-20 articles for this project, please join Associated Content today and follow the [...]

It started as a home based business move to a storefront and is becoming a franchise! Here’s Tracy Ahern’s story.
From Stuff.co.nz
Tracy Ahern’s decision to close her home-based beauty therapy salon and open a store at Westfield Riccarton is proving worth the risk.
The Christchurch woman is now franchising her All About You business, after [...]

The old saying went - you need a fax machine the first time someone says “do you have a fax?” Maybe the same is true for Skype. You need it the first time someone asks if you have it.
Unless you’re on dial up of course.
Skype 3.5.202 was recently released.
Here’s what Ubberreview had to say (in [...]