Archive for the 'Case Studies' Category

Terry Platt tells how as field inspector he runs across extra income opportunities. It’s all in a day’s work. Note how one couple used the field inspection business to cover their expenses while identifying inventory for their ebay business!
If you read my post yesterday, you will have read about the books I picked up for [...]

Ask any job growth prognositcator and they’ll tell you that becoming a barber is losing proposition. No growth in the field…no demand… unless you’re making up to $300 per day being a barber that is. Some - though more likely it’s the lady hairdressers - work out of their home.
I think that struck Anthony Bradley [...]

If you love to write and build web pages, especially free ones, Squidoo.com can help you get leads for anything while earning some money for you along the way.
But here’s how one UK MLM fan is using Squidoo.com to get MLM leads and make affiliate sales, etc.
This distributor actually wrote a page on a [...]

Here’s an interesting website I ran across called kids-cooking-activities.com.
There’s a growing trend in teaching kids to cook. I guess because the generation after mine thought only McDonald’s could do that. Or was that my generation?
My daughter is 10 going on 11 and is fascinated by cooking. Her favorite TV channel is the Food Channel, and [...]

It’s amazing how the Net is revitalizing a small Texas town. I wonder how many people will find their work at home dreams come true there?
Snyder, Texas 330 miles NW of San Antonio is gambling that Big City workers would rather telecommute from a quaint town that spend their life in the High Occupancy Vehicle [...]

Lessons from the Lemonade Stand: 101 Common Sense Management Tips
Need a quick refresher on what makes business people successful whether it’s Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, or Bill Gates? In the day to day hassles of trying to get ahead, it’s necessary to remind ourselves of the Big Picture, so perhaps these reminders will help.
What do [...]

Cute Little Store documents the real life story of one entrepreneur’s transition from astrophysicist to business owner. Though business ownership isn’t “rocket science”, there were quite a few things she didn’t know about running a business - even after reading all the “how to start and run a business” books.
Adeena Mignogna is an aerospace engineer [...]

I ran across a link to this the other day, so here’s the actual blog… the Hundred Dollar Business Blog It’s the real life story of a young lady from Utah applying what she’s learned in college to see if she can actually start a successful business with just $100.
I’m really looking forward to her [...]

CNN.com is reporting that during this last Christmas Season, Amazon.com and Netflix.com received greater competition from formerly “brick and mortar only” competitors like Sears.com and JCPenney.com…”If these traditional multi-channel retailers can keep focused on the customer and continue to achieve these types of improvements, they will [become] a tough set of competitors for the pure-play [...]

Home businesses don’t always stay small. Sometimes they become wildly successful and go world wide. That’s what happened to Cabela’s. After a less than promising start Dick Cabela observed what other successful marketers did and tried his own hand. An eternal optimist, he kept at it and outgrew that kitchen table mail order business in [...]