Archive for June 30th, 2009

  • Working For Yourself Means Freedom But It Doesn’t Come Free

    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 [...]

  • Etsy Helped This Seamstress Quit Her Day Job

    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. [...]

  • Selling Physical Products Online – Jon Leger

    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 [...]

  • Another Mystery Shopping Scam Revealed!

    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 [...]

  • 6 Reasons To Use Wordpress Even If You Don’t Blog

    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: