Archive for January, 2009

Google’s so messed up today it’s unbelievable.
Actually it just shows that the pointy heads at Google can have foul ups like everyone else except when it happens there, it’s on a catastrophic scale. Or at least a big mess up.
Today the search results were messed up for a time. Every site listed was flagged [...]

Did you notice this story in the LA Times? The subheading reads: “Some owners say the cost of testing for toxic lead and phthalates will shut their businesses. The law goes into effect Feb. 10.”
It could have dramatic effects on your business if you have a consignment shop reselling children’s products, sell such products on [...]

Unified Blogging has broken the mold. Lots of people want you to bust your behind blogging for them. They will pay you something and hope to keep the lion’s share for themselves. If they have the money to recruit a zillion writers, they will cash in just by accident.
But what about you – the writer? [...]

Many of our readers are interested in what it takes to make a great portal site. If that’s you, then TheCarConnection.com is a great illustration to review for your purposes. Take for example this page for the Mitsubishi Lancer. It’s clean, well laid out, and has not only several options for monetization, it also has [...]

Here’s an excellent post by Ernesto Sirolli: Horse Manure and the next Entrepreneurial Revolution.
While we have spent millions bailing out the auto industry (just before BO drives a tent peg into its head with the latest emission standards!), we are stifling the people who might actually help us dig out of this hole: the [...]

President Obama’s plan is to give tax relief to the middle class to the extent that they have no stake in the tax code and so they will be willing to vote the Democrats into power forever under the guise of “making the rich pay their fair share”. On top of the thousands of dollars [...]

Of course this is a sales pitch for VIPDesk… a virtual staffing service. But it shows even in this tough economy, there will likely be moves to cost savings which could open up doors for work at home jobs.
This is for business people seeking to contract with virtual call centers. If you’re seeking to [...]

As people are looking for any way possible to generate a significant income from home, they are looking to Online Trading as a home based business. This isn’t exactly new. In fact, people were selling these information courses before the internet had really “taken off” ten years ago.
What’s changed in the last decade are [...]

It’s a pretty good headline for people who are worried about money. This time though, it’s not a come on for an affiliate product, it was an advertisement for “Burpee Seeds”!
If you’re planning to do some gardening for the monetary value – or just the stress relief this spring and summer – I thought I’d [...]

photo credit: surface to air
As Dane says so well, it’s up to entrepreneurs to generate wealth. Government can only command, transfer and pilfer the wealth others create.
In case you missed it:
President-elect Barack Obama has put forward a $775 billion “American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan” to create 3 to 4 million new jobs. Unfortunately, the [...]