Archive for November, 2007

Have you ever wondered why government “statistics” keep saying that inflation is “low” when everything from food to gas to rent to utilities continues to march upward?
As Mark Twain once said, there are “lies, D*** lies, and statistics”.
The website Shadow Government Statistics helps sort painful economic fact from politically correct fiction. It’s a bit too […]

From their corporate office:
As you’re now aware, Commission River signed a Letter of Intent to be acquired by Cognigen Networks, Inc. and is currently managing Cognigen operations. We are excited to work with Cognigen agents. Most members of Commission River’s staff have a long history as Cognigen agents, Cognigen employees and friends of Cognigen […]

As you may know Google recently slapped lots of blogs because they had paid advertising links on them … but after slapping Squidoo last summer, squidoo lenses seem to be making a comeback.
The Angel Food Ministries lens that I got up in the top 100 in just 7 days is now ranked PR 5! In […]

PC’s are losing their appeal for people while other hi tech gadgets are zooming in popularity.
This story from Japan talks about college students, but the trend is hitting business as well.
I was thinking about doing some presentations in public and recording them to Mp3 to put online.
In the “old days” (last year) everyone told me […]

Here are tips on How To Recruit Tech Workers From Faraway Places.  Oddly letting them continue to LIVE far away (telecommute) only seemed to come up as an afterthought. Lots of people living in rural areas with skills (or wanting to live there, as long as they had broadband) though would KILL for a job […]

I know in our neck of the woods, pharmacies close at about 6 PM. So where do you go for medicine?  Given the fact that yesterday we went to one during normal business hours and could barely get the right prescription issued after hours of messing around, this sounded pretty neat. This system provides 24 […]

Now that was a terrible pun wasn’t it?
According to Canada.com Lori Kerpan decided to start up a home based party plan selling pajamas. She calls her business Jammeez Pajama, Etc. Inc., but it’s no longer home based. She’s had to start getting retail space to sell her wares.
What’s she sell that made her business boom […]

This is an interesting article at the Washington Post. It hits a nerve with bloggers because even though blogs are proliferating faster than bacteria, the number of blogs being left dormant or shut down monthly are skyrocketing too. The only ones that don’t go away are all the Spam Blogs…. They’ll stay around just hoping […]

“Web 2.0″ is all the rage these days.
What’s it about and how can you harness Web 2.0 for your home based or small business?
Web 2.0 lets users generate content on an interactive basis.
Some examples:
1) MySpace
2) Blogs
3) Directories
4) Ratings/Reviews Services
5) YouTube
6) Yahoo! Answers
These attract alot of traffic and can become very popular with users… popular sites […]

You can read all my posts on this subject here here
This is my final post on this subject.
Basically being at the Student Career Fair reminded me of my Trade Show promotion days.
Somehow, people think that just being there counts for actually doing something productive.
It doesn’t.
To translate the time and money spent on a trade or […]