Archive for the 'Case Studies' Category

Yesterday I was talking about Twitter and it’s ability to be used to solve customer service issues. Here’s a USA today article on the service: Twitter took off from simple to ‘tweet’ success How can work at home business operators use the service? Market research for one. Here’s one important quote for our purposes: Savvy [...]

I don’t know anything about the opportunity presented by this press release. So I certainly don’t endorse the business opp offered at the site this press release links to. I do however think this is a splendid example of “reverse psychology” in the home based business field. While everyone else is saying “Here’s why you [...]

This Reuters article demonstrates ingenuity: “For Sale: Cheap heating oil — from my basement” As New Yorkers and other residents of the North East US modernize their heating and cooling systems, many are left with tanks of heating oil they’ll never use. They just want rid of the smelly old stuff and – they’re willing [...]

Here’s 10 High Paying Work From Home Jobs as seen on Careerbuilder. My only disagreement might be “Financial Planner”… most of the ones I know meet people in an office that’s plush and “bank like” to make the customer feel like their money is being handled well even if that doesn’t happen at banks! But [...]

Philadelphia Business journal has an article on Good Will: One Place Where Bad Times Are Good. The hard times caused by rising gas and food prices is making their “business” jump. It is an interesting case study on how discounters can prosper in hard times. Of course, if people donated all their used goods to [...]

Can losing 100 pounds boost your business? It can’t hurt in any case, but this story is about a top performer who “tanked” and along the way had picked up an extra 100 pounds and hated herself in the process. Part of getting back on top was to lose the weight.  For her that took [...]

I’ve been out and around and found an interesting story about a work at home business… the famous Wall Drug In 1931, a pharmacist named Hustead purchased the pharmacy in the middle of the South Dakota Badlands at a geological formation known as “The Wall”, hence the name, “Wall Drug”. Their in-laws told them “you’ll [...]

Question: I live on an acre in a great house on a hill in _________. I just had a new well drilled for all of my gardens and landscape. It turns out that I hit a wonderful pristine aquaduct that comes right out of the mountain. Can bottling water be a viable home business option? [...]

Young Businessman earns $40,000 Scholarship   The entrepreneurial scholarship was awarded after the foundation determined Wagner’s S&B Electronics was a viable company selling electronic products and cellular telephone accessories. Wagner started the firm in 2006 and grossed $500,000 in sales during the last year – while maintaining a 3.3 grade average at NU. “I didn’t [...]

Remember Jared Fogle who lost all that weight eating at Subway? Jared lost 245 and, of course, has this ongoing gig with Subway as long as he keeps it off. Well, now another person just lost 80 pounds eating only at McDonalds… and, no, I do think that was because he developed an aversion for [...]