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Home business has a value beyond the money you make for yourself. When we create income for ourselves at home and encourage others to do the same and help one another, we improve society as a whole because we are essentially creating a safety net for ourselves that is independent of “government help”. Here’s how [...]

I have worked with hundreds of “laid off workers” in the last 10 years and most were not prepared to re-enter the job market.  For them, being told to “write a resume” sounded like nothing less than the chiding of an elementary school teacher telling them to “do their homework”.  They felt resume writing was [...]

Need inspiration? Need mechanical knowledge for a project? Want money making ideas? 137 years of Popular Mechanics are freely available online according to Wired. It is available through Google Books. I’d embed one here, but couldn’t find an embedding link on these publications.

I love Google Books. But I just found this list of University Libraries with Digital Collections: 100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access If you’re doing research for pay, if you’re looking for public domain material to compile and resell, or if you just love knowledge, these resources may be [...]

This, admittedly ISN’T for purely home businesses. 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 [...]

Wow! This brings back memories! I was visiting Zappos the shopping portal and ran across these Timexwatches! I guess I’m dating my age here, but as a child I remember hearing the then-famous voice of John Cameron Swayze the spokesman for Timex watches. He was famous for saying “Timex, it takes a licking an keeps [...]

Grand Canyon University sponsors a website called GetMyBusinessDegree.com. Non traditional degrees are booming these days and schools that once shied away from doing online training are jumping in with both feet. It makes you think the “carping” was all just to give the big schools time to “catch up”. GetMyBusinessDegree.com exists to educate people about [...]

When I lived in West Virginia, I was fortunate enough to work for a company that provided business health insurance. They were family operated and family oriented and considered it part of their obligation to their employees. They wanted to treat them as “family.” They were paying through the nose for workers comp, but they [...]

Check out The Rise of the Underground Economy. Bottom line? This is what they really would say if they were honest – 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 [...]

When you think about businesses built on camraderie, I personally think of the TV Show “Cheers”… people gathered in one of those “third places” to fellowship, have fun, and enjoy things like “the game” on TV. If you have a small business could it become a “Third Place”? Good question. What would you need? Commercial [...]