Archive for September, 2009

Dane posted this first. We found it of interest this morning! Dan Fuchs operates a small mall kiosk in Johnson City, Tennessee. His business, Graphic Edge, prints slogans and graphics on t-shirts, coffee mugs, and bumper stickers. Unfortunately for him, more than half of his business came from anti-Obama merchandise, sos the mall has decided [...]

The Power of Mobile Money at the Economist website discusses how banking via mobile phone is unleashing entrepreneurship in the Third World. These phones compensate for inadequate infrastructure, such as bad roads and slow postal services, allowing information to move more freely, making markets more efficient and unleashing entrepreneurship…With such phones now so commonplace, a [...]

Here’s a reminder about some legitimate ways to make money at home in your spare time. I’ve written about these options before, but you can always find something new when you review such articles I’ve found. One new resource is LivePerson.com that lets you, if you’re an expert on something sell your advice by the [...]

It’s almost become the national passtime to see how much you can save using coupons. But one emerging trend to cut down on the coupon clipping is to surf the net for savings. This article really surprised me: it talked about how one lady had saved $5,000 with Ebates.com. Ebates lets you shop online through [...]

As seen on Dane’s Blog… Orlando Internet Business Examiner: Finding the right niche is an important step as you plan and build your web site. You want a specific enough niche so that you don’t have a great deal of competition, but you also do not want too specific of a niche to where nobody [...]

If you are a “Family Farm”, Whole Foods offers a Local Producer Loan Program! If you’re a “Family Farm” or Small Business, you may not only find the  money you need to expand, you may find the marketplace to help you expand! Whole Foods Market’s Local Producer Loan Program (LPLP) provides up to $10 million [...]

A while back I mentioned how to use Comment Hut to generate one way links from “on topic” blog posts which you can select according to Page Rank. I have a website I’m trying to gradually build links for. Comment Hut has been a great tool. I type in a keyword and it goes out [...]

With all the free web tools at your disposal, there no reason any more to wonder where your traffic is coming from or what’s bringing them to your site. When you know what pages your visitors enter at, you can maximize the advertising and affiliate links for that page and you can learn for yourself [...]

Recently I wrote about FingerprintUSA.com’s business opportunity. You can see their actual site here: FingerprintUSA.com Here’s a newsflash – I just learned that they are seeking locations urgently in the state of Alabama. Interested? Contact: FingerprintUSA.com

I ran across an interesting video my friend Markus Allen made… it investigates a phenomenon we’re all familiar with… those promises of “big money” by the Internet “gurus”. You’ve perhaps heard about programs so amazing they virtually guarantee success if you will get out your credit card to pay a handsome price only to wonder [...]