Archive for November 29th, 2007

Here’s an interesting piece of news: The Tennessee Supreme Court Expands Workers’ Compensation Coverage To Include Telecommuting.
Basically employers allow telecommuting to save money, improve employee retention, and other benefits that accrue to the business or else they wouldn’t do it.  As such, they can’t withhold worker’s compensation coverage!  I’d bet overall there will be far […]

“Build A Niche Store” is an easy way to start making money online in a particular niche.
Using the instructions with the software you just choose the country you’re going to target (United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia), choose your niche market, get your ebay and other related affiliate code, customize the look of your […]

If the home that is also your home office is taking a bite thanks to skyrocketing mortgage interest rates on you adjustable mortgage, help may be on the way.
Or not.
Sounds like there’s lots of paper work that needs to be simplified and one is afraid of “helping” a consumer before everyone agrees the “paperwork” is […]

The Wall Street Journal has a great article on finding buyers through online video. It’s called “Lights! Camera! Sales!” and it’s  a good read.
One person they profiled is an artist, but evidently she’s not a starving one! She uses free YouTube videos to sell her products on Ebay to the highest bidder. Her videos have […]

Sometimes people would leave the cubicle if their health allowed. They’re locked in because working for themselves would mean - at first - not having health insurance.
As people age, High Blood Pressure is one of those frightening things that creep up on people.
Any medication can be super expensive, but I was amazed to be shopping […]

Marketing across generations is a big challenge.
One publishing house that started publishing a “family” magazine in the 70’s now has to publish 5 separate magazines to serve it’s diverse clientele.
But even at that there’s a whole new generation of people they’d like to reach but they aren’t. Who are they? The millennials who are all […]

A quaint property with a combination of historical and sentimental value was saved recently - by a telecommuter.
Locals had feared that the hand built stone home would be bulldozed for apartment development by the new owners.
Instead a telecommuter whose wife works there locally has bought the home as a personal residence. An employee of a […]

The dream of the Web 2.0 world is that everyone will keep their data on a remote sever somewhere and ultimately have stripped down laptops and internet accessing devices that no longer require internal storage.
It reminds me of the report of Google getting into online medical records. I suppose they’ll serve Adsense ads while people […]