Archive for July, 2008

The Oregonian reports that a “Guerilla Marketer” is getting attacked by the proverbial 500 pound “Gorilla” of City Hall: Portland sues Jobdango over sidewalk chalk graffiti The regional job search website Jobdango.com put hundreds of chalk advertisements on the sidewalk promoting their website. You can see some of their non-chalk advertising here. As you can [...]

This Reuters article demonstrates ingenuity: “For Sale: Cheap heating oil — from my basement” As New Yorkers and other residents of the North East US modernize their heating and cooling systems, many are left with tanks of heating oil they’ll never use. They just want rid of the smelly old stuff and – they’re willing [...]

Want to start your own business? Want to know the fields where graduates are in demand? Just want your kid to be able to get a job when they’re done with college instead of having a useless degree? Then check out the Most Lucrative College Majors (Slideshow)  #1? Computer engineering! Lots of work at home [...]

Here’s 10 High Paying Work From Home Jobs as seen on Careerbuilder. My only disagreement might be “Financial Planner”… most of the ones I know meet people in an office that’s plush and “bank like” to make the customer feel like their money is being handled well even if that doesn’t happen at banks! But [...]

Lot’s of people who work at home tell me they have to escape the house sooner or later or they are going to go nuts. In our town, that means, oddly enough, going to a Krystal’s, Dairy Queen, or a Gas Station/Convenience Store!  (Big place, huh?) These rules apply for more upscale places but still [...]

One business that’s booming these days is the job of “Repo Man”. In the article “Hard Times A Boon For Repo Men”  you soon learn it’s not just cars being “repossessed”… it’s even yachts. One advantage to repossessing yachts is you don’t feel so sorry for the guy who’s $200,000 behind on his yacht payment [...]

Here are the top 25 things that are vanishing from America. Should you avoid them like the plague? Should you include the appropriate ones in your business to build on “nostalgia”? Should you yawn and say “good riddance?” Should you panic if your business completely relies on the Yellow Pages? Should you try to buck [...]

If an organic family farm is your idea of the perfect home business, here’s good news, Americans are buying shares in organic family farms. I have family members, for instance, who love raw milk… some to drink, some to make kefir, a “probiotic” rich fermented milk product. Where they live, it’s illegal to sell “raw”milk [...]

You know the old saying… “If a dog bites a man, that’s not news. But if a man bites a dog, well that’s news.” By that definition, this is news. The man is biting the dog so to speak. Ford sues to collect interest $445 million is sought from IRS When  you’re down to $40 [...]

It’s August 15-17 and you might want to check it out. I’ve only read the press release and, as always, you must make the choice whether this is “for you”! But were I near Atlanta or seeking to reach this market, I might drop by myself. Here’s the press release. Here’s their Squidoo lens  “Presentation [...]