Archive for October 15th, 2007

  • Australian Cleaning Firm Helps Families Start Own Business Guarantees Work

    Jim’s Cleaning, an Australian firm, lets families start their own cleaning franchise. Over 200 families have joined so far.
    Most start operating from a home based office to do the book keeping while serving customers at their homes.
    The trend they’re seeing? Busy people, homes in need of maintenance, no time for the homeowners to do […]

  • Executives Say We’re Overpaid

    No, not the workers (which I first thought they meant) but the executives themselves consider themselves overpaid.
    They’re starting to feel the heat when so many middle class people are living from hand to mouth.
    Financial Times (registration required) 

  • Small Biz Startup TV Today - Pass it on

    Here’s a message from Becky McCray… you’re invited!
    Thinking of starting a business? Already did? Bring questions to Small Biz Startup TV at 10:30 am Central TODAY http://operator11.com/shows/4600/episodes/25255
    If you miss the live show, you can still watch this episode later at this address or click through to our previous episode.
    Becky McCray and Jeanne Cole live from […]

  • Self-employed seek equity on health cost deduction

    Our representatives want us to believe that they’re “pro business” and that they want people to have “health insurance” but in reality, but they can’t do the simplest thing to erase an inequity in the tax code to accomplish that.
    The Buffalo Business Journal is reporting that sole proprietors could save around $1,800 a year if […]

  • Have You Checked Out CheapOAir For Business Travel?

    I’ve got an invite for a conference down in Orlando FL in December and so I’m checking my flying options, even though I don’t like to fly. I haven’t flown since 9/11 in fact. It’s not  “fear of flying” per se, but mostly a strong distaste for aggravation, long lines, and random searches.  But […]

  • So What’s Going On With Agloco?

    Agloco is the viewbar service that lets viewers get a “piece of the advertising action”. The more folks you refer, the more they refer, the greater the potential for you to earn.
    The great Agloco hoopla has ended as reality has set in but the service is gradually building momentum and making substantive upgrades at a […]

  • IDrive-E Online Backup - Is Your Business Income Protected?

    As we were doing our taxes a few weeks ago, I noted a deduction for getting a new computer. A power surge “fried” the last one. We had to find a local computer guru to search through the remains of the hard drive and try to retrieve whatever business records were necessary. I wish we’d […]

  • American Small and Medium Enterprises Rely on US Markets

    Globalism is such a dirty word amongst many workers in America. It signals lost jobs, lower wages, and being shut out of a familiar work place. Evidently the word sends shudders down the spines of most American small businesses too. They see it as the enemy instead of just the new reality to be exploited. […]