Archive for November, 2008

Following the Biblical injunction of Leviticus 19:9-10, a Colorado family farm offered people free food. They originally scheduled two days of “gleaning” – allowing free picking of vegetables left over after the commercial harvest of their potato, carrot, and leek crops. They expected 5,000 or perhaps 10,000. 40,000 showed up! Though a 600 acre farm [...]

Lots of home business people use Gmail, so I guess it’s only natural that they’ll be using Google’s new voice chat and video chat. You’ll need to download a special voice and video browser plugin. But, after that, it’s fairly routine. Frankly though, none of my regular contacts are on the system to I can [...]

At least one anyway – Benjamin Netanyahu’s Russian Language site is – except for the language – a near “clone” of the Obama site according to the New York Times. The colors, fonts, layout, icons, and donation buttons are virutally identical. As are methods of out reach such as Twitter. Businesses may want to emulate [...]

Here’s an article about Twitter: about how wonderful they are, about how many users they have, about how their traffic is booming and how they haven’t earned a cent yet but still have venture capital coming in. The real benefit to business was near the end and WHY you should have a Twitter account as [...]

Entrepreneur Profits from Stadium Trash … They’re selling them to teams right now to try to get people to throw their trash in the can. But ultimately they want to sell to consumers. When you think of it, you go… “I’m surprised nobody ever did that before?” The company’s website is FanCans.com What other simple [...]

Credit card companies are slashing credit limits just to protect themselves from the worsening economy. There are many businesses – home businesses and others – that get their start up “financing” through credit cards. If that’s you, brace yourself if you haven’t gotten one of these notices in the mail. The credit card industry is [...]

by Melissa Brewer Many people hire the services of virtual secretaries. If you have specific skills such as web design, technical writing, graphic design, event planning, or working with advanced computer programs, there are many employers who would be interested in hiring you for specific projects or daily tasks. Those with traditional secretarial skills such [...]

Part of an industry has been built on how to get “Top Ranking in Google”. Now Google has weighed in for free. Now you can read Google’s SEO Startup Guide Actually they have several resource links here you can check out. Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters [...]

Start Up Nation is having a contest for “Recession Busting Home Businesses 2008″ It’s too late to nominate yourself, but it’s interesting to see they types of businesses that at least say their doing well despite the troubled economy. What trends do you note? Other than the penchant for self-promotion?

Bloomberg: Taxpayers Say NO to Wall Street Bonuses Actually if the truth be known, I think there’s another descriptive phrase in front of that “NO!” but you get the point. While the cufflinked beggars of Wall Street come hat in hand to the US Treasury pleading desperation, they plan to go back to their ornate [...]