Archive for 2008

I met a home based cosmetologist the other day with an unusual extra profit center, an Aqua Detox machine.
In addition to the haircuts, perms, shampoos and conditioners and the normal products and services for sale in the cosmetology salon attached to her house is a unique machine.
This Aqua Detox machine “detoxes” your body.  I’m normally […]

I ran across this today… Gary North is offering his ezine readers (it’s free to subscribe) an opportunity to potentially win $1,000 for creating a YouTube ad promoting his site.
He’ll choose a winner and pay $1,000.
Here’s the details.
So how are your You Tube video skills?

Personally I think refund anticipation loans are rip offs. I know some home based and small tax preparers for whom they are a significant part of their business. The reason? While sanity might dictate that RAL’s are rip offs, people want them and they have to offer them to compete. Last time I spoke to […]

Want to get ahead in 2008 through better product sourcing for your ebay auctions?
Every year at this time, people all around the world make New Year’s resolutions.
Worldwide Brands has created a special ‘New Year’s Resolution Audio’ for you. It’s called…
“Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions for Product Sourcing”
Now, the main problem with most resolutions is they […]

These applications can greatly help your productivity in your home business if you will use them: iFTP, Snag It, NotepadEx, Launchy, and irfanview.
I personally like Snag It. I’m not familiar with the other ones can, except for the note taking utility, can’t see myself using them much…except iFTP, that sounds promising.
But check them out for […]

As social networking either becomes the greatest boon for building a business online ever - or the biggest time waster depending how you use it, scammers are at work to take advantage of your desire to use the new medium. Facebook users beware.
Wired:Fraudsters Target Facebook With Phishing Scam
Some Facebook users checking their accounts Wednesday found […]

Here’s Entrepreneur Magazine’s list of Top Home Based Franchises for 2008
Here’s their disclaimer:“This ranking is not intended to endorse, promote or recommend any particular franchise company. Instead, it’s meant to be a tool you can use while doing your personal franchise research, which should include interviews with existing franchisees, counsel from your attorney and accountant, […]

Sam’s Club is targeted to help small businesses. Personally I think they are doing this to help engender loyalty in that market by helping these businesses make money online. Compared to the costly mistakes that can happen otherwise, $100 per month for ads and technical assistance is probably pretty reasonable. One Sunday classified in a […]

While the last prediction was fairly optimistic, this one is much more sober.
Yahoo News has an opinion piece that highlights the broad array of “challenges” (a nice politically correct word for a financial 2″x4″ “upside the head”) facing the economy like a shaky housing market, slowing consumer spending, rising commodity prices, credit market turmoil, etc. […]

Since everyone’s in the predictions business, I thought I’d mention one or two I’m reading.
Here’s one article stating 2008 may not be so bad, in fact he says he sees “no real signs of recession” among other things. In fact he thinks 2008 might be as much as 10% better in some ways than 2007.
Forbes: […]