Archive for the 'Making A Difference' Category

This is a bit unusual for our Mailbox segment, but oh well. I’m 27, single mom with a psychology degree. I want to go to Law School at night to get a degree and be able to take care of my kids. But I don’t know a lawyer to give me a reference. How do [...]

Mother’s Day is big business. In our town, you’d better get to lunch early with your mother or you’ll both be standing in line. It’s interesting to know that Mother’s Day celebrates the efforts of an industrious “social entrepreneur” and mother who changed people’s lives for the better. The mother described reminds me of the [...]

Here’s an interesting, mostly home based position as a pharmaceutical rep that I saw recently and they welcomed reposting. Here’s what struck me about the position. 1. Most pharmaceutical rep positions are for non-generic drugs. The reps go to doctor’s offices, smooze the doctors, bring lunch for the office staff, and pray the doctor prescribes [...]

I wonder if any of my readers are marketing regularly on Craigslist? If so, I’d like you to leave a comment and tell me what is really working for you there? To stay within their guidelines, you have to have different ads in every city where you make a post. Some ads seem automatically bounced [...]

From StartUpJournal.com… Ebay Inc. founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pamela, have given $100 million in eBay stock to Tufts University in suburban Boston to create a fund that will invest in microfinance, the practice of loaning small sums to people who are too poor to qualify for traditional lending. The university says it will [...]

“Real” Home Based Jobs (i.e. not scams) are hard to come by. This one’s “for real” if you’re a talented seamstress willing to work from home. Here’s the press release communicated by our local Chamber of Commerce: Project Alabama is looking for dedicated people with the ability to run their own business from home. “What [...]

How do you position your home based business locally? Perhaps you don’ t if you’re just marketing online. But being the cautious sort, I don’t like to have all my eggs in the online basket. So when the opportunity to participate in my county’s annual “leadership development” class came along, I jumped at the opportunity. [...]

Property ownership is the foundation of a stable community. Communities of “renters” may be nice people who keep things as nice and neat as homeowners do, but in general, home ownership produces legitimate pride and a sense of investment in a community that yields other tangible and intangible benefits later. Even the government recognizes this [...]

From the Albert Lea Tribune In the mid-1980s, Dave and Teresa Nolander started Marketing Plus, then a direct- mail company, out of their home as a way for Teresa to help out the family income while she was home with their children. Throughout the years, the company grew to include more services, including the “Make [...]

From the American Statesman His work at home position is “pro bono”, but in my book, he’s still a work at home hero. In the days after Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana, Jason Bollenbacher contributed to the rescue effort without leaving the safety of his home office. But it was plenty important to search teams in [...]