Archive for the 'Making A Difference' Category

“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 we are […]

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.
Such classes are […]

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 and housing […]

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 Cents and […]

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 the field.
Bollenbacher, […]