Archive for 2008

As I’ve mentioned before, the fastest, cheapest and easiest way to get published is to have another author tell your story.
Have them put your contact information in an end note or your website in the story.
Here’s an author seeking stories about empowering women via Dan P0ynter:
Stories of empowerment needed. I’m looking for your stories from [...]

I blogged the other day about having a customer ask me to design his business site.
It started out “I need this urgently”.
So I got right on it.
Now I’m ready for more data from the business owner, but, as you may have guessed, small business owners are frequently detained by “new” urgencies!
I’m sure he’ll have the [...]

The work at home call center jobs are growing by leaps and bounds. Alpine Access will be hiring 5000 new home based workers on top of the 7,500 they already employ! Wow. Their goal is to increase employee satisfaction and retention while nearly doubling their workforce. Unlike many work at home positions, Alpine Access pays [...]

As you know last October I built a Squidoo Lens on Angel Food Ministries to help people save money on monthly groceries.
It hasn’t made me a million bucks but if every page you built made money like this one did, then you’d probably be happy enough. Then IF every page you built did this well [...]

I know this isn’t a work at home picture (though the people I know in this line of work often have their office at their home), but after all the political yammering so far and months more to go, I thought you might want to see this. Click it to enlarge!
The sign reads: “Caution: Vehicle [...]

I’ve been blogging about using WordPress for local business site building. This may be a possible option for do-it-yourselfers: Tank.
While your website is “in development” it’s free and it’s hosted at a subdomain of withtank.com.
Once you stat talking your own domain, that’s when hosting fees kick in.  The price is in the South African “Rand” [...]

You can read this article here…
Basically, it’s a form of “cyber squatting” but not with trademarked names. It’s basically a form of online market testing. Google has announced they will try to crack down on the practice and not pay for ad clicks generated by people with a demonstrable history of “domain tasting.”
Name tasting exploits [...]

Whenever I drive down to Florida or the beach, I tend to see lots of Canadian license plates. I guess this is one I won’t be seeing, unless she’s on vacation of course.
From The Sault Star
Sheila Hatherley makes it into her Connecticut office two or three times a year tops.
The rest of the time, she’s [...]

RuralEx is a new telecommunications service provider based in Saskatoon Canada.
As you can read in this article about RuralEx the company’s purpose, in part, is to provide home based call center jobs in this rural section of Canada. Here’s how the owner describes what’s going on:
Weber is planning to tap into a somewhat forgotten workforce [...]

Yesterday I told you I’d be starting this project. After testing and rejecting one template by
1. uploading the wordpress theme into the wp-content/themes file on the file manger of the web host,
2. going to the Word Press admin site at domainname.com/wp-admin  and then under “presentation” clicking on the new theme.
3. Saw that it didn’t look [...]