Archive for September, 2007

I needed to do some keyword research so I decided to purchase and test the new tool Keyword Anywhere. I don’t expect I’ll be able to use all it’s foreign language search components soon, but just the English tools are awesome enough. The picture is about a search done using Myspace to suggest keyword niches.
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From EarthTimes.org
Recently, LSP Consulting and Plantronics conducted a survey of home-based professionals to learn more about their work habits and pain points. Among the findings of the July 2007 survey:
– The majority (91 percent) of survey respondents conduct non-business-related activities during the workday.
– Seventy-three percent of home-based pros conduct personal activities while on business calls.
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Most home based entrepreneurs are aware of Google’s free tools, but now Microsoft is trying to target the small office, home office crowd with its online tool suite: Microsoft Office Live.
Here’s just more evidence of what’s possible while working from home. Do you have any contacts overseas who could help you product source?
From The […]

I received this update from Kiva about one of my first microloans - to Va Chou in Cambodia.
Here is how she has had to use her loan. Like every entrepreneur I know she made a plan, carried it out, and had to readjust to make the plan work! She actually had to change businesses for […]

Sooner or later every small business that advertises knows they need to be online.
Most small businesses ARE in the Yellow Pages, but the only calls they get are from people trying to set up their merchant account or otherwise sell them something. Only rarely do Yellow Page ads pay off right away for new businesses.
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From The Age (Australia)
There is a small but growing cadre of mothers making it their business to put conscience and goodness back into children’s food - while making a crust.
With no business experience and three children, Amanda Murphy started Yum Mum two years ago. “I knew I wanted to have a home business so […]

You know Squidoo has hit the big time when people are charging to build lenses.
But some folks I’ve mentioned before have teamed up to form Build My Lens.
For people already having income flow in from your online business, the prices are pretty reasonable. (You only save @ $12 by buying a package of 4, so […]

Here’s a free tool that will help small businesses on the net deliver email more productively to their customers and not get their communications trashed as “SPAM”.
Spam is a bigger and bigger problem nowadays. Recently RalphWilson, Paul Myers, and other Net marketing gurus havewritten about the problems that spam is causing honest, hardworking Net marketers.
Actually, […]

I don’t think most truck drivers consider themselves as having a “home based business” or “working from home”.
At best - it’s working at your “home away from home”.
But more Baby Boomers are taking to the road as documented by this Louisville Business Journal article.
I happen to know several score of would be truck drivers.
The biggest […]

Facebook’s not just for High School and College Students any more. It’s home to an increasing number of business executives looking to network according to the Boston Business Journal.
Like MySpace, Facebook will host information that may destroy careers or keep them from getting started as it’s used in hiring decisions.
“What goes on Facebook (or Myspace […]