Archive for 2007

Via Dane’s Blog
BusinessWeek:
The high price of energy is driving bids higher yet in a Connecticut electricity supplier’s unusual eBay auction.
MXEnergy, one of several electricity suppliers in the state’s deregulated market, is offering homeowners and small businesses electricity rates that are locked in, similar to power purchases by large commercial and industrial customers.
To promote its business [...]

From Dane’s blog
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Lani Lazzari is only 13 years old, but she exudes a confidence usually reserved for entrepreneurs 10 years her senior as she talks about the genesis of her business, Simple Sugars.
She works out of a small room in a back corner of her basement in Fox Chapel. The sign on the door [...]

Please beware the latest PayPal Scam. It’s almost laughable but beware anyway. If you receive such an email, forward it to spoof@paypal.com and then delete it.
PayPal doesn’t need copies of this information. They verify your personal information directly with the financial institution and when you verify the amounts deposited in your checking and/or savings accounts.
These [...]

C.J. Hayden has a host of resources about how to Get Clients Now.
In a recent article, though, she reminds us… there’s some prospects we DON’T want as clients. Here are some pointers on how to identify them…
It sometimes seems in the game of marketing professional
services that the only rule is to land the client at [...]

In the Andy Griffith TV show, the business owners are not highly educated… think if Floyd the Barber for instance. The highly educated are teachers and, perhaps, ministers.
What about the real world in 2007? Are the ones most likely to become business owners like Floyd the Barber or someone who’s highly educated?
Here’s what some recent [...]

By: Melissa Brewer
A job with a home-based call center or other virtual employer is an enviable position. It’s important to realize that a desire and ability to work from home is NOT considered a skill by potential employers. Home-based employers are looking for good workers that fit their company’s ideals, values, and goals. Make [...]

It’s a common check cashing scheme in the US. This made the Canadian news. It’s amazing that the woman says she knows”People I know [who] have done similar things and they’ve been credible…”  Really? That’s hard to believe!
From Meadow Lake Progress
Audrey East recently received a phone call she wasn’t expecting: from the Toronto Metropolitan [...]

Franchises SHOULD make it easier to succeed. They should even allow you to run a franchise from home.
There’s just one problem, the number of franchises and “franchise concepts” is mushrooming by the day it seems. There are hundreds of potential franchises. The problem is sorting through the many options that exist. Home business service franchises [...]

Can you start a successful business with your spouse?
It’s not as easy as it sounds. The results could be wonderful or not so great depending on your situation.
I think it also depends on whether your business relates to your previous “day job” or not.  If you go from working for a company to doing the [...]

New York City is constantly whining about the traffic congestion downtown. They could instantly reduce congestion by up to 5,000 cars per day, but New York State Income Tax law keeps them driving in. Why? It’s not worth their while to telecommute because New York State’s greed taxes them for the income they’d earn in [...]