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Their website:Remembering With Roses

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Bedford, NH – Michelle Dunn has been nominated for a New Hampshire Business Review 2007 Business Excellence Award. This award acknowledges Michelle’s accomplishments in New Hampshire and her community. The New Hampshire Business awards recognize the imagination, industriousness, innovation and achievements of people who often don’t get the kind of public recognition that they deserve: small-business owners and operators. The Business Excellence Awards – to be awarded in 14 different categories – honor owners and operators of businesses with 100 employees or fewer.

Dunn was recently named one of the Top 5 Women in Collections, as well as one of Collection Advisor’s Top 50 Collection Professionals for 2007. Dunn was selected through participation in Tech ‘07, coverage in magazines and through field nominations. Collection Advisor TECH’07 continues the unparalleled excitement of TECH’06 and CAT Expo.

“Michelle will be honored during the TECH’07 in Las Vegas at a special awards reception on Thursday evening, November 8th at which time she will receive her award.” states Scott Cytron, executive editor of Collection Advisor. Dunn is also a featured speaker at Tech ‘07 which will feature many top industry speakers. Michelle Dunn along with the other 49 industry professionals will be featured in the January issue of Collection Advisor.

In acknowledgement of the accomplishments of New Hampshire’s small business community, New Hampshire Business Review will be honoring the winners of the 2007 Business Excellence Awards in Bedford, NH at The Event Center at C.R. Sparks.

Michelle will also be presenting at the Credit & Collection Risk Managment Forum 2007, where you can learn the best practices in managing for liquidity, financial strength, customer retention & regulatory compliance. Taking place October 22 – 24, 2007 at the Gleacher Center at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Michelle Dunn, author of an award winning book has spent the last 19 years stepping into dangerous debt collection potholes. She shares her hard-won expertise on debt collection with the titles in her “Collecting Money Series.” Michelle was named one of the Top 5 Women in Collections as well as one of Collection Advisor’s Top 50 Collection Professionals and is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and has been featured worldwide in publications such as Forbes, Smart Money Magazine, and MSNBC. Michelle has been a featured guest on (NPR) National Public Radio and many other radio programs as well as published in many newspapers and magazines nationwide. For more information visit http://www.nhbr.com/ or www.michelledunn.com

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She was donating neck massages to raise money for a sick friend and I have to tell you she did an excellent job doing deep tissue massage to work out some kinks in my shoulders.

Because local ordinances make it unprofitable to build her own in house studio, she does home visits for customers in Spring Hill, TN on up to the Franklin, TN area at very reasonable rates compared to the brick and mortar businesses in her area.

Good going Maggie!

Here’s her website: MaggieSerrano.MassageTherapy.com

Here’s her address:

Maggie Serrano, LMT
Licensed Massage Therapist
Columbia, Tennessee 38401
(931) 215-3284
massagebymaggie @ yahoo.com (remove the spaces before you hit “send”)

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Going from over a decade of salaried work in a licensed profession where I had a clear role and status to full-time self-employment in a profession that is a bit like the Wild West was not without it’s challenges.

If you are an entrepreneur or considering making the leap, here are a few tips I can offer you from my own insights and dope slaps along the way.

1. Admit it when you need help and then ask for it.

2. Accept help and support without worrying that people will think you less of you.

3. Don’t overplan.

4. Develop work habits that bring out your best.

5. You don’t have to catch every ball thrown at you.

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Roderick Romero has made a thriving business out of our love for leaves–he makes treehouses. It sounds like a gig for aspiring entrepreneurs in elementary school, but Romero isn’t building structures out of old plywood, cardboard, rope and hope. His tree homes can cost as much as $60,000, and they attract clients such as actress Julianne Moore and fashion designer Donna Karan. He has traveled as far as Italy and Morocco to build treehouses, and his creations are listed in the Neiman Marcus catalog. Tarzan didn’t have digs this good.

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Readers of our blog are always happy to learn that working at home in some form is growing. INVESP virtual assistants is a company that’s growing by offering businesses and individuals superior “remote�? services for projects like writing, editing, and administrative services.

The Virtual Assistant industry is booming due to the low cost of entry. As long as their home based “virtual” workers can keep providing their amazing service at reasonable prices, they’ll continue to grow.

Small to mid size businesses who don’t want the daily overhead, salary, wage taxes, workers compensation and other expenses associated with hiring yesterday’s “secretary�? are outsourcing their assistant needs to companies like Invesp.com.

Like other savvy marketers, Invesp.com offers free consultations to prospective customers who want to know if their service is appropriate.

As they grow, hopefully you’ll see a hiring announcement here seeking more virtual assistants.

Check their blog for some interesting articles.

He tutors aspiring gamers for $65 per hour!

Read the entire story at  the Palm Beach Post 

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Here’s her story:

Before I had children, I worked as a computer programmer for GE Information Services in Brentwood, TN. I loved my job, but, after my first child was born in 1993, he and was very sick with asthma and breathing problems. I became determined to find a way to stay home.I worked really hard his first two years to pay off all our debts. I did everything I could to save money and I took on extra work doing bookkeeping for the daycare where my son stayed. Two years later, the day my second child was born, was my last day at GE. I had all our debts paid off except our house. Just before I left GE, my husband got a job with GE as a customer service representative.I then took some odd jobs teaching computers at the local Christian High School, working with businesses that had online projects that I could do from home, consulting, babysitting etc. to help make ends meet.Three years later, in 1998, my third child was born, and our house seemed to be getting much smaller. My husband’s dream has always been to live on his family’s 300 acre farm. So, he asked his boss at GE if he could work from home and move to KY. To our amazement, his boss said, “Sure!”. In 1999, we sold our house and moved to Western KY where we built a new house on the family farm and became completely debt free.Since then, my husband’s division was sold by GE to another company, GXS, but he continues to work from home. And I have started a web hosting and design business from my home, Promised Land Services, LLC – http://promised-land-services.com We homeschool our 3 children on the farm and we LOVE working from home.

Work At Home Ventures helps people learn about internet marketing, the technical aspects of running a business online, how to make digital products, how to sell on eBay, plug people into MLM’s or direct sales companies, and we give information, support and inspiration to keep on keeping on when the going gets tough. I think that covers most of it. If it has to do with working from home, we try to cover it. Our goal is to help anyone that has the desire to work from home, find a way to do that. We are especially trying to simplify the technical aspects so that anyone can do it without spinning their wheels figuring out how.

Working from home allows Interior Designer Mary Bokovoy to keep her prices affordable according to the Tigard Times… 

“I like to first see what people can do with what they already have. Sometimes it’s just a matter of rearranging things they have to create a new look, or a fresh point to start from as we see what needs to happen in a specific room of the house,� she said in her joyful, enthusiastic voice.

Bokovoy also offers a variety of design services for small businesses and art for children working from her home office…in part to diversify her income and in part because she loves  having a variety of things to do to occupy her mind.

“I do design work from home and actually offer small businesses a great, competitive price for my services. I do logo design and can help them build a whole package. I do all of the design work and then email the client everything, and they can go to Kinko’s and print what they want.�

For more information about Mary Bokovoy Design, call 503-469-1912

New flutes retail for up to $2500. She repairs and sells old flutes for up to $1900.

To repair and return flutes or piccolo’s she charges $60 per hour and doesn’t estimate repair costs until after having the instrument in hand. A complete overhaul can take up to 25 billable hours ($1500).

She serves customers out of her North Carolina home and gets most of her customers through her website FluteStar.com

Thanks to the Asheville Citizen Times for this story.