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I was at my local county’s leadership development class yesterday.
Our exercise was to create a “Simulated Society” and everyone was put into groups and random and they had to forge their own society for the day.
It’s like “Survivor” without the mud or foraging for food… and it’s just one day. No million dollars either.
Hopefully, people [...]

As I’ve been telling some of my friends, I’m engaging in a new venture for 2006.
I’m going to start working more with local businesses to help them get ahead of the Local Search trend that MSN, Yahoo, and Google are investing big money in…I’ll be working with the Scoop Network showing small business/home business folks [...]

James Jones talks about a source of auctionable or resellable goods that can be purchased at steep discounts that few of your competitors will bother to frequent.
Just about any city in United States there are storage facilities that are set-up so that people who have too much stuff in their house, or too much junk [...]

From EarlyToRise.com esine…
“In the early days of the Internet, [Ragan Communications'] strategy of free online content made sense. Internet users were a small percentage of the total population. Content providers needed to gain an understanding of online behavior. And the technology for restricting access was in the preliminary development.” So said a software specialist in [...]

This is a question facing many people, not just home business folks.
Here’s an example of how one home based entrepreneur - Glenn Osborn - is attacking the problem.
It’s pure capitalism at work… problems call for solutions… and depending on the solution required and one’s ability to exploit it, it can make you some money [...]

Disneyplates, an Ebay Powerseller sells digitally remastered DVD’s of trips to Diseneyland for $11.99 to $22.50 a piece.
Hmmmmm check out this interesting seller.
He video tapes and sells videos on Disneyland parades and amusement rides
and special Disney Land Events
He sells EVENT videos………that is all he sells….
Great idea……..
He seems to sell about 15-20 videos per week [...]

“Big Box” stores like Wal Mart and the big retailers aren’t the only ones who’ll be selling gift cards this Christmas.
CNN/Money reports …
For truckers who haul Santa’s loot to stores all over the country, what better way to express your gratitude than with a 7-Eleven gift card, for an 18-pack of Bud Light, or [...]

Glenn Osborn, a Baltimore, MD, entrepreneur uses this criteria:
I belong to a Baltimore Networking group. NRG. Networkreferralgroup.com - it’s actually grown to 6 states. I like it more than BNI and ALL the other groups I’ve visited because…
A - You’re in and out with a fistfull of referrals in 60 minutes
B - The Group [...]

Glenn Osburn via the David Frey forum…
A friend in Los Angeles bought a Jiffy Print store.
To PUMP up sales
from the Businesses
in the surrounding
Hi-Rise Office buildings.
He looked for business owners ALREADY selling to the businesses HE wanted to sell printing to.
He found a Pizza Store owner.
The guy was delivering Pizza to 100’s and 100’s of the [...]

This is an old post from the sowpub.com forum by Don Alm…
There are lots of great ways to make lots of money.
Unfortunately, they all involve selling of one form or another… even website monetized by Google Adsense are about selling Google on why your website has unique content or some other search engine on your [...]