Archive for February, 2008

I’ve just never seen this before. $7 per hour for someone experienced at this sounds too low, but it might be a fun job for someone:
Ebay Lister
We are looking for someone to list our inventory on ebay. The job involves locating product information, taking pictures and uploading for the ad, and an attention to details [...]

This is from their press release. They already have a telework policy that lets people work at home. This helps them have a home to telework from!
From Business Wire
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®) today announced an innovative new employee benefit designed to encourage [...]

Liveops.com  continues to grow. Their expectation is that most companies won’t want to have their own “in house” call center operations. That distracts from their core business. They’re hoping most companies will prefer to outsource that work to them.

From DestinationCRM.com
The age of companies housing their contact center operations all under one roof is [...]

This is a sponsored post.
People wanting to work at home as independent contractors for some of the best known companies will soon be asked to create their own business entity before becoming contracted. Otherwise, these companies will just work with the home business entrepreneurs who DO HAVE THEIR OWN CORPORATE STRUCTURE.
That’s because it’s becoming increasingly [...]

I saw this a few days ago and forgot to link to it.
Now Seth, don’t you know IT IS NOT A RECESSION UNTIL THE POLITICIANS SAY IT’S OVER AND CAN TAKE CREDIT FOR FIXING IT AFTER 200 million people worked their behinds off trying climb out of it and survive in the meantime, “Economic Stimulus [...]

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 [...]