Archive for the 'Case Studies' Category

Cake Maker David Glass Seeking Loans From Customers If a local business you patronized and “loved” needed a cash infusion, would you lend it $2000 a year for $120 in free product? (Keep in mind that’s a 6% return in name at least when your local bank may give you, what, 3% at most right [...]

MarketWatch warns that those distressed properties might not be such a bargain. This is a helpful article… basically you need to “do the math” before you buy. One question I’d ask after reading it though is… “How do you know you’re at the bottom?” If you could predict that, you’d be a millionaire. The only [...]

Recently I told you about a special offer on how you can create profitable membership sites. This is a special available to our readers for the month of September ONLY – Money Making Membership Sites! Here’s a case study of how someone in a non “internet marketing” niche uses a membership site to make an ongoing [...]

This is a special available to our readers for the month of September ONLY – Money Making Membership Sites!First of all what impresses me with Rebecca Prescott is that she is running her business online from a dial up connection. How many people would simply have given up? Most…most do. So that tells me something [...]

I have a friend the other day who has been running an import export site for quite some time. He is a of import export and turned it into a retirement income most people hope to aspire to in their working careers. No, it wasn’t $100,000 per year. But it was nearly three-quarters of that. [...]

John at Duct Tape Marketing has a very thought provoking post on how a wildly successful Deli expanded their business and profits in an unusual way: a “community business model”. The company is Zingerman’s Community of Businesses Instead of producing “Cookie cutter” imitations of their deli in every city – the traditional franchising model, they [...]

Lessons from the Poor: Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit (Independent Studies in Political Economy) is an excellent work to read this Labor Day! The authors/editors are: Alvaro Vargas Llosa who is the director of the Center on Global Prosperity at the Independent Institute; a lecturer on world economic and political issues at such venues as [...]

If you’re working online and learning to set up websites, one pitfall is to do what I just did. I had my FTP client open and clicked to delete a WordPress plug in for a site I was building. There’s just one problem. I clicked delete for a functioning site and effectively gutted its ability [...]

I am always amazed how simple techniques can produce amazing results. In a few minutes “Stump Markus”! has another no-cost teleconference to discuss how split price testing can yield important long term results. Here’s what he has to say about that. Every week or so, I pay a visit to the local health food store.One [...]

One of our favorite “Home Business Grows Big” stories is the success story of Carteret Mortgage. What that reminds us is that many individuals are selling mortgages out of home based or small office shops. With mortgage applications at an 8 year low, it makes you wonder how home based mortgage sales people are doing. [...]