Archive for July, 2008

Here’s something about how sugary drinks may lead to Alzheimer’s. (I think of fizzy soft drinks when reading this, but if your addiction is sweet tea, it’s just as bad and may encourage kidney stones!) When you’re working from home do you find yourself guzzling lots of sugared soft drinks? My problem’s not the sugar, [...]

According to my friends at the Agurban Institute who track this material 97% of exports comes from small and mid sized companies (remember that in this definition, “small” business is 500 employees or less!). Here’s really good news though. Most of these have 20 or fewer employees! In fact, they say, exports are keeping US [...]

You mean telework isn’t working for everyone? Well, we knew you can’t exactly fight fires from home. You have to show up for that job. Hmmm… where else might telecommuting not work too well. According to the FederalTimes.com one big problem area is when walk in customers can’t get service. Housing and Urban Development lets [...]

This is cool. A web designer had to work at home because of a sick child. Here name brand cable internet is down. She can’t work. She goes through the voice mail jungle and gets no help. She can’t work. Customers can’t contact her. So she uses her Blackberry to log on to Twitter, leaves [...]

As you’ll note from the blurb,  it’s a variety of factors at work – demand for employees, looming exodus of the older “Baby Boomer” generation, the demand to be “environmentally friendly”, etc.  Some places want to cut down on traffic, cut down on the need for real estate for parking garages, etc. Now may be [...]

I just got an email from Chitika.com to tell me about their new premium ads. If you’re blogging or have good web traffic, you might get a nice extra little paycheck from them. Best of all, they are (they say) compatible with Google Adsense! Here’s their blog post on the new premium ads.

I don’t know anything about the opportunity presented by this press release. So I certainly don’t endorse the business opp offered at the site this press release links to. I do however think this is a splendid example of “reverse psychology” in the home based business field. While everyone else is saying “Here’s why you [...]

I about screamed when I went to my grocery store the other night. I just ran in for a few quick things and the food bill was $50.90! I went through the automated check out line and the machine asked me for coupons. Boy I wish I’d had some coupons with me. They would have [...]

This is a press release for a home based franchise. As always, please do your own due diligence. I’m passing it along for information purposes only. FETCH! Pet Care ( www.fetchpetcare.com), the nation’s largest pet care brand offering professional pet sitting and dog walking services, with locations in 34 states across the U.S., today announced [...]

Web Worker Daily talked about Fumpr today. I don’t use online image hosting much myself, but I found out that this service IS both easy and FAST. I was very impressed by it’s upload speed. User friendly? Flickr could take lessons but I’m sure there’s technical reasons they’re slower. Fumpr is fast! Worth using if you [...]