Archive for February 27th, 2008

I constantly hear about rural areas and home based rural workers for whom having affordable, non-satellite broadband would make earning a living much more likely and reliable.
Certainly it would bring needed streams of income into these rural places and make each area less vulnerable to local income swings and local business downturns.
But in addition to […]

From their press release…
Website: www.oprius.comSales and Contact Management Tool Releases Web Page Builder
(Victoria, BC, February 26, 2008) - Oprius has always been a great tool for working with leads and customers, but now it can also be used to help generate new leads. This new lead generating functionality has been added to Oprius’ current […]

Here’s an interesting story about house sitting as a home business.
This couple was stuck in two low paying jobs in a high cost town… a college town.
The wondered how on earth they could save money for a house when everything they earned went to pay the bills.
So as they were examining their budget looking for […]

Kevin Savetz announces his new website. Mostly I prefer to scan and email documents via pdf file these days if possible. BUT sometimes you just need to fax things. I especially like the legal notice to tell fax-spammers where to fax it to… not you!
I’m excited to announce a new web site: www.FaxCoverSheets.org.  The site […]

In Australia that is. From the Liverpool City Champion. Check out the amazing statistic about the percentage of home businesses to small businesses in Australia - 70%! (Could it be just another politician’s exaggeration?)
“People in small business are very hard workers and 70per cent of them in Australia are home-based,” said Mr Adams, whose business […]

Just the other day I was reading that businesses in New York are starting to take the EURO in exchange for goods and services. I wondered how they’d handle those transactions…
So today, Wells Fargo announces a service to help some small businesses with that.
Wells Fargo offers online foreign exchange service to small business
The service […]

It didn’t take a Rocket Scientist to see that this was one work at home business that might be profitable but would eventually cause trouble.
FoxNews: Delaware Police Raid Home-Based Casino Dealing in Nudity, Illegal Gambling
William “Shane” Anderson, his wife Laurie, and Matthew Balotin are charged with advancing gambling, conspiracy, and endangering the welfare of a […]

This social media stuff is wearing me out. So when I read this, I just said to myself “Yawn”!
But if you’re not mindnumbed and brain dead from Digg, Facebook and all the rest, by all means read what the New York Times has to say about BUZZ!

Career Builder has a list of the top 10 worst states for job hunting. The data is public information compiled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in January.
All the states listed had unemployment rates ranging from 5.7% and above to over 7% for Michigan.
But I wonder what all 50 states look like… Pockets of every […]

I was in the car last night and heard something on the radio I desperately wanted to follow up on today.
Unfortunately, I was alone, had my hands tied up with - of all things - driving.
And I couldn’t stop to write anything down.
Then I remembered… I’ll call my Jott account.
Then I sent a “Jott” by […]