Archive for 2008

This is from the “Tips Booklet Guru” Paulette Ensign and I wanted to pass it along. Be sure to visit her site at http://www.tipsbooklets.com
This sounds like a really good deal if your booklet is a proven seller - or if you’re just getting into the market. This system lets you target people seeking quick [...]

Can losing 100 pounds boost your business?
It can’t hurt in any case, but this story is about a top performer who “tanked” and along the way had picked up an extra 100 pounds and hated herself in the process.
Part of getting back on top was to lose the weight.  For her that took a paid [...]

Breitbart ran the following article: …Iran still buys American
So no matter what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says about destroying America, his country’s purchases from the US have increased 10-fold during the Bush Administration.
Feel guilty about “selling to the enemy”? Don’t! A State Department official suggests that this is actually a way of building relationships with the citizens [...]

Update:  After reading this, I’m  sick of “entrepreneurs” who want to raid the public till to finance their  plans.  For me the “Pickens Plan” is quickly becoming about “Picking Your Pocket”.
I have to admit, I was wrong about biofuels. I thought they were viable, but I’m no longer sold.
I don’t have all the answers [...]

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When we were trying to get high speed internet for my wife’s transcription business, people kept asking us “Can’t you get Verizon’s high speed wireless internet?”
For one thing the local reps could never GUARANTEE we’d have access where we live. Knowing phone companies like I do, I didn’t even want to take a test drive.
Then [...]

Joel Kotkin’s article “Suburbia’s Not Dead Yet” was of great interest to me since I just got back from a 5000 mile road trip cross country to see the state of the heart land so to speak.
With gas prices soaring (I saw prices as high as $4.23 for unleaded regular with no ethanol), with talk [...]

I guess it’s like many other things in life. There are people who are familiar with a product or service, swear by it, and wonder why everyone doesn’t share their excitement. Then the people who don’t share their excitement are going - “So what was that person so excited about? I don’t get it.”
Certain online [...]

This is an old article by Sydney Johnson that it pays to read if you’re just getting started online… 12 Things You Can’t Sell on Ebay
Though the article is 3 years old, you still can’t sell these things!
The key to selling on ebay is to have a legitimate product that is not federally regulated for [...]

I’ve been out and around and found an interesting story about a work at home business… the famous Wall Drug
In 1931, a pharmacist named Hustead purchased the pharmacy in the middle of the South Dakota Badlands at a geological formation known as “The Wall”, hence the name, “Wall Drug”.
Their in-laws told them “you’ll never make [...]