Archive for February, 2008

I’ve told you about Alpine Access’ rapid growth. Here’s a job opening for them I’d like to pass along. Here’s part of it. You can read it all here.
Payment Solutions Specialist
Work from the comfort of your home
Agents working this program will be responsible for delivering superior customer service in all customer interactions which include the […]

If your home based business was threatened by the potential loss of your home to foreclosure, the Hope Now problem may help.
You can read more here.
The lenders who represent 50% or more of the mortgage lending market have signed on to a deal that involves the Treasury and HUD in a “private” effort called “Project […]

This is an excellent post on how to find work at home jobs on Career Builder.
My main complaint about them is that lots of “work at home business opportunity” spam lurks in their search results.
They tell you how to avoid some of it, at least until the biz op promoters figure out how to spam […]

Take 1 Transcription
We are regularly recruiting experienced, freelance audio typists to join our high calibre team. If you have a PC, broadband internet connection, and typing speeds of 80wpm, read on!
Take 1 only recruits the best transcribers who are sufficiently skilled to transcribe not only one to one interviews, but also programmes with multiple voices, […]

Amazon’s book reviews can make or break a book seller. Good amateur reviews can boost sales through the roof.
Hateful antagonists can sink sales and flowery, over selling reviews can make hurt things too.
Amazon allowing readers to signal whether they find a review helpful can assist and balance things out.
Listen to NPR via Steve Weber, Book […]

Need help with the paperwork of getting a business off the ground? Talk to the U.S. Small Business Administration. Learn how to write a business plan, register your company, and deal with the tax details of running a home business at your local Women’s Business Center evening classes (men are welcome, too). Note: Novices […]

From the Nova Scotia News:
Prudential Consulting Inc., a Toronto information technology consulting company that also offers computerized medical transcription services to the health-care industry, will set up an Atlantic Canadian division to organize trained medical transcribers to work from home.
If the workers complete two years with Prudential Consulting Inc., they would be reimbursed a […]

If you want social contacts in Brazil, India, Asia and other places outside the US, the social networking place to be is Orkut, Google’s social networking platform.
They’ll now be allowing other 3rd party applications which they expect will make the site more popular.
Read more here.
What fascinates me about this is that smaller home businesses could […]

So that  you won’t think a $4 cup of coffee lets you camp out all day on their wifi, Starbucks hasn’t been offering the service. But now they’re reconsidering letting you have 2 hours of free wi fi. No word whether that will make the coffee go for $6 per cup.
But after two hours, unless […]

When I heard that teleworkers were going to handle your order at the fast food drive in, I thought that was nuts. But the penetration of teleworking into the American economy continues!
From TMC Net:
Employers outsourcing everything from drive-thru orders to ESL lessons.
The next time you’re ordering a burger and fries at your local drive-thru, […]