Archive for November, 2007

One of the barriers for employees to “go solo” and work at home (or in that “Third Place”) as a “Free Agent” has always been the issue of “benefits”, particularly health insurance.
That barrier may increasingly vanish as businesses of every stripe - if they offer health coverage - are shifting the health care cost back [...]

Here’s a bit of news about Holiday Travel Security Guidelines since it’s the week of Thanksgiving in the US.
It makes John Madden look awfully smart to insist on driving in a touring bus.
When it comes to bringing items through checkpoints, we’ve seen just about everything. Traveling for the holidays is an even bigger challenge. Everyone [...]

As the costs of energy go up, harvesting more for with less expense  is critically important for family farms that are home businesses as well as residences. Intensive farming techniques become increasingly sought out at such times and so aquaculture is something people look to as  a possible alternative. Here’s an upcoming training seminar on [...]

It used to be that you HAD to have a laptop to handle your podcast recordings.
Now though the cost of recording your podcast has dropped to a few hundred dollars because the new breed of digital voice recorders. $2000 to $400 or less is a huge drop in just a few years!
But if you’ve [...]

Can a Wiki build your business? Maybe, maybe not. But I’m fascinated by the possibilities for your business and mine. Wiki enabled sites are readily available even for non technical webmasters.
The book Wikinomics:How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything discusses how one old line business (a gold mine!) used the wiki concept to make rapid advances in [...]

Make Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary… just a crazy book title or a real option for a 6 figure income?
I guess it all depends on you in many ways, but this is an interesting book you need to consider if you’ve:
1. Got knowledge [...]

Zillow.com is the online database that lets you estimate the value of any piece of real estate.
They’ve survived on line enough to get “known”.
Now it’s time to make some money.
How they’re doing it is by inking a deal with newspapers nationwide that let folks placing real estate ads in the papers also have their ad [...]

I find writing lists helpful. But this article makes me think that I don’t always write exhaustively enough or look for patterns to emerge. I also tend to write these lists on very limited issues. The latest ones I recall are lists about what I am or should be thankful for. And I probably don’t [...]

Working at home is fun in theory until you get home and … yuck… have to work! Blogger Jay White on “Dumb Little Man” has worked from home since 2001 had these comments to make and they’re worth considering.
To insure your own survival, you need to consider lots of things about maintaining your professionalism.
1. Designate [...]

With Google getting into the 411 information business, it’s either a great business idea to copy or not!
Whatever you think, I think 1800Free411 is worth knowing about. It lets your business position itself in it’s category and only pay for advertising when a lead calls in directly.
That means - for businesses - NO COST unless [...]