Archive for 2007

HomeOfficeWeekly.com is now live on the web offering a free weekly online magazine to help you balance several critical factors in home business success: business know how, choosing a business, publicity and marketing, time management, plus advice on balancing work and family life. The publisher Marcia Passos Duffy knows her stuff - she’s been working from [...]

The Green Trust Newsletter is free and is perfect for people who want to work at home and love the idea of a homestead with renewable energy sources. Green Trust’s main site is a blog and they discuss a lot of neat material on this topic. Here’s how the author, Steve Spence, describes himself:

Professionally, I’m an [...]

As I’ve been scanning the work at home news in 2007, I’ve seen the same old tired articles warning about “Top Work At Home Scams”… you know “envelope stuffing” etc.
I usually write these off as the journalistic equivalent of telling adults who should know better not to put their hand near the flame or to [...]

The popularity of Third World Microloans to help folks work their way out of poverty continues to expand. This story from the Observer-Tribune mentions how an investment banker is taking the microloan concept to rural Guatemalan communities…
The only place this doesn’t seem to catch on is the US. Perhaps because if you have a job and a [...]

From the Contra Costa Times
An increasing number of people around the East Bay are choosing to launch their own business as a second career, often running them out of their homes. However, many say they don’t really know what they are doing.
“When you work from home, you don’t have people to bounce ideas off of,” [...]

As far as creating a “wish list” for 2007, America’s entrepreneurs keep asking for the top 3 things they asked for in 2006, 2005, etc. according to Belmont University Prof Jeff Cornwall… relief from taxes, regulation and health care. It’s a bit like the movie “Groundhog Day” but no end to the video is in [...]

NearbyNow.com is a new service that let’s online browers - and shoppers at large malls via in mall kiosks and cell phone text messaging - get access to your product pricing and reminders to shop at your store!
This just points to the increasing importance of using the web to find local customers even for your [...]

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From Hospitality.net
By now most people have read or heard about the back-to-back blizzards that brought Denver to its knees over the holidays. The timing was horrible. Just as holiday season travel was getting under way a few days before Christmas, it ground to a halt as the blizzard of 2006 blew into Denver and kept [...]

Alpine Access - a customer service firm that uses a work at home workforce of customer service reps is upgrading their communications systems to utilize Voice over the Internet Protocol in conjuction with Global Crossing. This support’s Alpine Access’ plans to add 500 home based workers in major cities in Florida.
Recently named one of the [...]