Archive for November, 2007

The old retail location for Travel Agents is becoming a thing of the past. While a retail location(s) is useful for reminding people you exist, it’s no longer where agents are working necessarily.
Laptops, PDA’s and wireless internet access or other broadband make working as a Travel Agent doable anywhere… and increasingly at all hours.
It doesn’t [...]

News14.com had this interesting article on work at home moms turning to the Virtual Assitant field.
They have video on the site if you prefer.  While this mom spends her time creating power point presentations and other office functions, sadly the article doesn’t go into any depth about where she found her customers or if she’s [...]

In the internet era, publishing your own book is amazingly easy.
So is shooting yourself in the foot.
There’s a reason that many people earn a living in the publishing industry and take a cut of the profits from the printing to the bookshelf. And that’s because it’s not as easy as it looks.
If publishing or writing [...]

Want business intelligence about how the geographic regions your potential business could serve are adapting to change?
One of the best free sources for that information is the Regional Communities Regional Intelligence blog by Tom Christoffel
He provides weekly summaries of what regions are doing to seek prosperity.
The problems they address and the issues they identify could [...]

If you’re addicted to Day Time Soap Operas or have your finger on the pulse of other topics related to finance, real estate or entertainment, the knowledge you take for granted may be valuable intellectual property.
Here’s why: traffic to the major news outlets and portals is leveling off.
They’re frantically searching for fresh, new content daily.
Are [...]

Here’s a slideshow of America’s 10 Richest Suburbs from BizJournals
This kind of demographic research is good to know. If you have a small or home based business that caters to home owners, the “Acres of Diamonds” you’re looking for as a prospect base might just be down the road if you can determine how to [...]

I accidentally learned how a local home business morphed into one of the most popular restaurants in town.
There have been several restaurants in town recently that are now OUT of business.
They started because someone had the bright idea that they could make money in the restaurant business but didn’t even know if they’ve have any [...]

Here are two articles that caught my eye:
Preparing Generation X for baby boom retirements
As tradesmen age, new workers in short supply
The first is about the loss of baby boomers. Baby boomers tend to “know the business” better while “Gen-Xers” are more adaptable. So it’s a reminder that corporately, the next generation had better be mentored [...]

Happy Veteran’s Day to our US readers!
I’ll have a few posts because many don’t have the day off today while others do.

I mentioned this topic the other day here.
Of course, this along with layoffs are reasons people seek business opportunities. It’s been that way since the Great Depression!
Speaking of which, maybe we should call this the Slow Silent Crash, the kinder, friendlier form of a Great Depression.
Unlike the Great Depression, we have mechanisms in place to [...]