Archive for the 'Business Start Up' Category

Over on the SowPub Forum Don Alm tells how to make money with Bumper Stickers you can print on your inkjet. Here’s a source for them I found on Google.
The following may be too late for YOU…THIS year BUT…keep this post in your “Idea” bank to dig up next year. (And…REMEMBER WHO you got it from)
November […]

Blogger Pamela Slim of Escape From Cubicle Nation is quoted at length in the Boston Globe!
Why? She opines that with the advent of the “virtual company” there may be fewer brick and mortar businesses to “telecommute” to.
Pamela Slim, who blogs at Escape From Cubicle Nation, says a perfect storm of factors is converging to make […]

Are things tough because you got into a home business to lay around and play all day while the paycheck’s roll in? Now though, that just ain’t happening? Read this…
From Market Day
I recently read an article written by an aspiring freelance journalist who was desperately trying to get published without success. In the article, the […]

I actually have no idea whether this is legitimate information or the Canadian version of “Get A Government Grant” hype. I tend to believe it’s legitimate because of 2 factors…
1) It came to me via a resource (of all things) for missionaries, the newsletter from www.brigada.org In other words it wasn’t in the normal places […]

Can you start a home business with nothing down — and sell it 10 years later for $1.5 million?
Robert Spiegel, the author of The Shoestring Entrepreneur’s Guide to the Best Home-Based Businesses did just that!
In 1986, Robert Spiegel founded Chili Pepper magazine for a mere $1,500 and sold it in 1996 for, yes, $1.5 million. […]

From the Teens Make Money Blog
With all the talk about making money online, you normally only hear discussions about Adsense, affiliate programs, membership sites, etc. All these involve selling someone else’s products or services. 
This young lady and her partner created a service which became ideal for resale so they could cut out the “middle men” […]

A recent study shows that the academic world is cashing in on their research quite handsomely. So handsomely in fact, some wonder if they are still dedicated to pure science and the love of knowledge or just the love of money.
Think “Gatorade” and you know intuitively that university research projects can easily make it to […]

Terry Gibbs is an expert on ebay. Here’s a tip on how to use eBay as a tremendous “get paid to prospect” machine. Plus a link to Terry’s ebook on how to make it even more profitable.
A few months ago, I was standing in line at a local thrift store. As an antique collector I […]

Are you getting into business to give yourself a new job or a life? Here are 5 keys to escaping the job mentality so you can move ahead with your dreams.
From Escape From Cubicle Nation :
1. Start with What kind of work am I meant to do?, not What kind of business should I start? […]

In July 2003, one of those Mississippi disasters happened, but not the Katrina kind.
The International Paper plant employing 640 people in Natchez, MS closed, laying off 640 employees.
Ripple effects in the community caused more to lose their jobs, inlcuding truckers, loggers, and other small businesses. The real total loss was probably closer to 800 […]