Archive for June, 2009

From Dane’s Blog
The Wall Street Journal:
Perhaps the greatest advantage of hanging out your own shingle or making that consulting business full-time is the independence that comes with being your own boss. But higher expenses and other costs come along with your newfound liberty. You may not be able to sock away as much pretax for [...]

I like Etsy.com. They frequently have stories about how people created their own business … like this one:
Eliza has been running her Etsy shop, elizandaxel, for just under a year and has already seen enough success to call it her full-time gig. She’s been designing, making, and embellishing clothing since she was a wee ice skater. [...]

Here’s a great article on selling physical products online by Jon Leger…
In summary:
1. Do the Keyword Research
2. Set up a feeder blog
3. Use the right Wordpress Plugins
4. Fill the blog with “on theme” content
5. Put a good banner to your chosen site
6. Get inbound links from multiple sources. Here is one good link building program [...]

Here’s another Mystery Shopping Scam report.
I was a victim to this so called “mystery shopping” this past week. Earlier this month I found an ad online about mystery shopping and a friend of mine used to do it in college so I thought it was legit. The man whom emailed me was named [...]

This is a very good video on why you should consider using Wordpress even if you don’t “blog” per se.
Did you know about these six ways?
You can even use a wordpress site as a squeeze page to build your email list or for membership sites.
Get the details here:

From Dane’s Blog
The New York Times:
Periods of high unemployment tend to be particularly hard on teenagers, who wind up competing for jobs with more experienced, laid-off adults.
When Faith Borden, 16, of Metuchen, N.J., applied for a job in March to be a counselor at a summer day camp, she looked around and saw “all these [...]

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For all the talk of “Change” Joel Kotkin says the Obama Administration is relying more than ever on the MBA crowd to tell him what to do.
Early on, President Barack Obama’s magical mystery tour gained power in places you would not expect it to — winning critical victories in overwhelmingly white, socially conservative Great Plains [...]

Here’s an email I received from a retailer selling through Cafepress. I’ll let you read the letter but then I’ll add my comments. Is what they’re doing a good or bad thing for the retailer?
In June 2009, CafePress began competing with the artists for whom it acts as printer and shipper.
CafePress rents web shops to [...]

For the next week, Tom Egelhoff, author of SmallTownMarketing.com, is giving away his two marketing and advertising books for small town business owners: How to Market, Advertise and Promote Your Business or Service In a Small Town and The Small Town Advertising Handbook.
via Small Biz Survival.