Archive for January, 2008

I know this isn’t a work at home picture (though the people I know in this line of work often have their office at their home), but after all the political yammering so far and months more to go, I thought you might want to see this. Click it to enlarge! The sign reads: “Caution: [...]

I’ve been blogging about using WordPress for local business site building. This may be a possible option for do-it-yourselfers: Tank. While your website is “in development” it’s free and it’s hosted at a subdomain of withtank.com. Once you stat talking your own domain, that’s when hosting fees kick in.  The price is in the South [...]

You can read this article here… Basically, it’s a form of “cyber squatting” but not with trademarked names. It’s basically a form of online market testing. Google has announced they will try to crack down on the practice and not pay for ad clicks generated by people with a demonstrable history of “domain tasting.” Name [...]

Whenever I drive down to Florida or the beach, I tend to see lots of Canadian license plates. I guess this is one I won’t be seeing, unless she’s on vacation of course. From The Sault Star Sheila Hatherley makes it into her Connecticut office two or three times a year tops. The rest of [...]

RuralEx is a new telecommunications service provider based in Saskatoon Canada. As you can read in this article about RuralEx the company’s purpose, in part, is to provide home based call center jobs in this rural section of Canada. Here’s how the owner describes what’s going on: Weber is planning to tap into a somewhat [...]

Yesterday I told you I’d be starting this project. After testing and rejecting one template by 1. uploading the wordpress theme into the wp-content/themes file on the file manger of the web host, 2. going to the Word Press admin site at domainname.com/wp-admin  and then under “presentation” clicking on the new theme. 3. Saw that [...]

This caught my eye as a very clever marketing idea. Many marketers use “Free Online Books” to promote their business or, in this case, their causes. We know that blogs can score well in search rankings, so how do you combine the allure of a free online book with the potential search results of a [...]

Part of Marketing 101 is that the person who has just bought one thing is most likely to buy another. So it’s time to strike while they iron is hot as they say. It’s called an “upsell”. But for beginning online marketers that’s always easier said than done. People come, look around, scratch their chin [...]

This post is inspired by a 39 year old’s aging crisis as 40 approaches. Will 39 year olds turn to telecommuting in droves now to save their appearance? I doubt it. Here’s the so-called plan: From The Joplin Globe Remodel a treadmill into a machine you never have to get off of. We could call [...]

As usual, by mentioning a franchise or business opportunity, you are cautioned to do your own DUE DILIGENCE before purchasing or investing. OK? I saw this franchise mentioned as having 60 home based franchisees and wanted to mention it to you. Update: This post was based on a press release. From the reader comments below [...]