You’d get in trouble because you’re likely too far “off the beaten” path to be accepted under this program.

More details will be coming out later, but, for now I’m going to alert my readers to this blog.

You may qualify for this if you …

1. Have an existing business (or even operate a non-profit organization or “ministry”) that is easily accessible to the public and properly licensed.

2. Have a clean criminal record.

3. Would like to add a revenue stream or profit center to your existing business or organization.

4. You are friendly to the customer (unlike, say, Seinfeld’s “Soup Nazi”).

5. You are willing to be trained by phone (short term training).

6. You can allocate a fixed amount of space to this profit center – 3 feet by 3 feet is fine.

7. You have Hi Speed Internet Access on site (not negotiable)

8. You have staff available to perform the service during routine business hours.

9. You would like to have new potential customers walking into your business or non-profit.

Locations for this service are being sought nationwide.

While there is no guarantee of any particular revenue level from this venture, the national companies seeking these locations will be investing a signficiant amount of money in the equipment they place in your business. They will not be positioning equipment somewhere they are unlikely to earn a significant return on their investment which is why our existing business locations are currently earning $300, $500, $1000 or more per month offering this easy “add on” service. And, for the business or non profit, there is NO out of pocket cost, no ongoing royalty payments or other fees. You are paid per transaction and pay nothing to partcipate as the service location.

Obviously this is NOT MLM or network marketing. It is a completely digital process. It’s clean, requires no inventory, no shipping, receiving, stocking, and, as a result, there is no “loss” due to theft, breakage, or spoilage!

Ideal business locations for this service we’ve found are:

Insurance agencies

Coffee shops

Shipping stores and/or “Copy Shops”

Lock and Key stores

Non-profit service agencies

Child and Family Service Agencies

Career Centers

Virtually any public small business or non-profit that opens its doors to the working public!

How will you be making money? Did it sound so good you wondered if it were legal by now?

Yes, it’s entirely legal. In fact, you will be helping national companies fulfill state contracts to perform digital fingerprinting for people required by the government to keep their finger prints on file. In this age of homeland security and increasing concern about child protection, this is a “trending topic”!

Nationwide, the demand for these sites – the more people the more locations needed – is growing.

The company telling me about this will be charging a $25 to businesses to register their site. They are the site location firm for these national companies who obtain these government contracts.

A few readers of this blog will be allowed to register their sites for free while the company tests their registration process!

So stay tuned! This will get very interesting.

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According to Wikipedia, Swayze was born in Wichita, Kansas, the son of a wholesale drug salesman. He first sought to make his way as an actor, but his move to Broadway in 1929 was derailed by the scarcity of acting roles following Wall Street’s stock market crash! He went into reporting and by the 60’s he was famous enough to be a paid spokesman for the Timex watch company. The commercial that stands out is one where a Timex was strapped to a huge snow mobile… one with a cab for the occupants and powered by huge treads. At the end, the Timex is still working fine he reassures us.

Well at Zappos when you check out the Timex watches, I doubt if they tick anymore,  and I didn’t hear John Cameron Swayze’s voice…but it sure brought back the memories of hearing about those rugged time keepig devices! Instead of paid spokesmen, you can read the actual reviews of real customers and see how THEY like the modern array of Timex watches! I do miss the snow mobile however! These days, paid spokesmen are out and social media “people proof” is the order of the day and these Times watches have plenty of that! Oh well, a nice trip down memory lane!

On the issue in question, the site notes that health care, education, law enforcement, environmental, and the computer/technology fields continue to grow. I appreciate their mentioning a broad spectrum of fields because they are a “business school” named after business leadership professional Ken Blanchard. But just because their specialties in online education are communication, e-commerce, global management, and finance, the information they put on their site’s articles isn’t just about what they offer. Fair enough.

As business degrees online become more popular, GetMyBusinessDegree.com – whether through their articles or their degrees – may be helpful to folks seeking help in advancing their career.

It was always harder for self employed business people or small groups to get group health insurance. A friend of mine was an insurance sales person who sold individuals and small groups. At one time he was a “captive” agent only able to sell one of the stingiest programs around that most ordinary consumers would not consider “insurance” at all. Other folks are out there selling medical discount plans that can be confused with insurance until it’s “too late”. That’s why it’s crucial for find people specializing in group health insurance – especially since health savings accounts are becoming more popular and while as a self employed person fully insured plans may cost “an arm and a leg”, HSA’s may allow you to self insure at more affordable rates while protecting you from catastrophic losses to major illnesses or injuries.

1. Economists looked down on the unregulated, unlicensed markets of the world because they worked at state funded institutions and regulated markets, essentially, paid their salaries. Unregulated markets know economists and weather forecasters are the only people in the world who keep their job even when they’re in the wrong, but that weather forecasters are at least helpful sometimes.

2. Now that that the balloon juice “regulated” and “licensed” markets of Wall Street – encouraged by the imbeciles in Congress of course – got a swift kick of reality and things are going to hell, economists are saying “Thank God somebody in the world still works on cash for services rendered and can still keep something happening, otherwise they’d be in deep trouble like we are in the West.”

3. We did not mention Bernie Madoff and his clones in this article because their criminal antics might lead people to believe that licensed and regulated markets might not be perfect when we know they are… at least perfect for hiring economists.

4. It’s safe to talk about this underground economy because it’s in India and no threat yet to American economists.

5. Economists didn’t like the underground economy because those people aren’t smart like the people at Bear Stearns and AIG and all the other big Wall Street firms that are now bankrupt or acquired – but at least these people wore cologne.

6. Unregulated markets are bad because they don’t pay enough taxes to employ useless economists and bail out the friends of useless economists on Wall Street. They are selfishly preoccupied with feeding their children and not feeding bureaucrats.

7. It noted there are some off the books workers in the US. They are usually discovered when a political operative is selected for a cabinet position and it’s found that the worker was “informal” because the bigwig was too cheap to pay their “fair share” of taxes.

8. One person lecturing at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government suggested that informal employment such as rag picking among the garbage piles like human Wall-E’s may solve urban decay. Because the implication of that statement is that government programs haven’t solved it already, one can only conclude she forgot where was opening her mouth.

9. But in case the political class can’t lead us to believe they have been sufficiently adept at solving the crisis they’ve largely created, we might as well mention rag picking as an occupational choice now since it may be in our futures. Unless we’re in the elite class and can become useless economists.

10. If the people who gave Anna Nicole Smith – a known addict – drugs are now under arrest for encouraging her addiction, the people in Congress who’ve let this mess get worse for years should be under arrest too for giving drugs of a sort to the addicts on Wall Street. (I added that part.)

Though most of us think in terms of home satellite packaging, the Direct TV Business package may be what’s needed to save money on cable and still satisfy an audience seeking some place fun to gather. Commercial DirecTV has a variety of packages to suit your clientele to make your business the “draw” you want it to be. That comes when you use programming properly to attract and retain your audience.

With the economy in a tough situation, it makes sense to consider cutting costs while increasing customer loyalty in search for maintaining your revenue stream. As a result, when considering how to create the ambiance you need to attract and retain people in a “third place” environment and also check on saving money, finding out how a Commercial Direct TV package could be of service to you could be worth looking into.

Pretty waterwheel though considering it had no water.

Your winning ad could be that company’s next “viral video”. I guess the idea is that if you win a few of these, you might be able to start doing that on a regular basis for predictable income. It’s as simple as following these steps and putting your creative genius to work:

HT: WWW

If you can create a steady flow of traffic and have a ready supply of attractive inventory, this could be an excellent time to be in the Consignment Store business according to the Wall Street Journal. Malls and retail outlets may be hurting, but if you can offer a bargain, you may be in business.

Here are the information products – based on sales – our readers like the most. So if you are looking for something to read, here are some suggestions from our readers.

#1. The all time best seller is the Easy Photo Biz ebook on making money by taking digital photos that you can read about here. Here’s some info about it. The business is hopping right now with all the foreclosures!

Lending, Leasing and Insurance institutions nationwide have vested interests in homes, cars, commercial property, businesses, trucks, RVs, boats, or any entity requiring financing or insurance. These institutions need to have updated and accurate information on the condition of this property continuously. It is simply not cost effective for them to have their own “reps” in every single town (zip code) in the United States. So, these institutions “sub” out this work to freelance “reps” all over the country. Once trained, your services will be in high demand.

#2 The Little White eBook of Homeshoring Jobs profiles 180+ companies that regular hire home-based workers for inbound and outbound callers, customer care, and tech support – complete with salary information, typical schedules, and the tools you’ll need to get the virtual job you want.

#3 Build A Niche Store – this one time purchase software script allows you to use your own hosting account to set up an infinite number of niche stores built around ebay, Adsense, and other affiliate programs. What’s different about this system as opposed to some other similar ones (even ones that have made me money in the past) is that this allows TOTAL customization.

It works best if you add your own personalized content and tweak the template too. Some “out of the box” non-csutomized BANS sites have been treated roughly by the search engines I hear. That’s why they MUST eb customized and personalized. I’ve talked about that some here. Real people are replicating this strategy on multiple sites to work from home thanks to the checks that start flowing in. It can take some work finding the right niche and adding customized information and personalizing the site, but if you are willing to work, this system does work. Also, you can set a site up, go back and tweak it later. You don’t have to “build Rome in a day” as they say.

Note: If you are a bit more experienced and have experience with WordPress blogs you want to check out PHPBay. This script functions like a plugin for WordPress that lets you easily post relevant ebay auction listings on any blog post or page. Both are excellent ways to get started tapping into the Ebay affiliate marketplace. If you have experience with WordPress already, I’d definitely point you towards PHPBay!

#4 Skip McGrath’s little ebay ebook is well loved here. I’ve linked to the sign up page for his free newsletter, but lots of our readers buy multiple products from his website and absolutely love him.

Here are some of those top sellers…

FREE 99 Tips for eBay Buyers and Sellers.

The Complete eBay Marketing System will teach you the professional techniques you need to become an eBay power seller.

Top-Twenty Wholesale Sources For eBay Sellers

Learn How To Make Money with information products on ebay.

This one has sold plenty of copies online too…

#5 Make Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary It’s by two people who make more as “full time part timers” than most folks do. They tell you their stories about being adjunct professors for online universities. I wrote about it here and some of you have liked this pretty well.

#6 People who wanted to stay at home doing medical transcription bought this book to “test the waters”. I you love this book, you’ll likely do well in Medical Transcription! To test yourself, buy the textbook professional medical transcriptionists learn from in school: The Language of Medicine with Animation CD-ROM (Language of Medicine (W/2cds))

It’s from this blog post: 2 Ways To Know If You’re Cut Out To Do Home Medical Transcription

#7 Is popular too: Setting Up Your Medical Billing Business: Step-by-Step Procedures for Starting and Managing a Computer-Based Electronic Medical Billing Business I mentioned that business here: Are Home Medical Billing Opportunities Viable?

#8 Now, though many people hate these two, this has proven to be a popular book: Why We Want You to Be Rich: Two Men – One Message

#9 The top selling product early on (not in the last year) was SURVEY SCOUT, an excellent portfolio of surveys and focus group opportunities! You might make up to $150 per hour, but please don’t hold your breath. That’s a bit over the top! What I like about them is that they always try to have incentives and special offers so that you automatically get a good deal. The most recent special incentive has been that with every membership, members have access to a list of over 250 real bona fide jobs including data entry, transcription, call center agent, customer serivce and more! (Windows required). So they have always tried to do good by folks in my experience.