Archive for the 'Profiles' Category

MSN is celebrated “National Work At Home Week” with some profiles in 2000.
Here’s one I found interesting.
A Portland, Ore., man describes how the MSN network of content and services enables him to work more productively from home and on the road.
A typical day at the office for Chris Hanschka might begin in his bedroom [...]

Carole Hubbard is a founding distributor of Southern Living At Home.
I visited with this home business pro at a district fair in the region where she had a display.
Though she’d never participated in any home business program before, she welcomed the offer to join Southern Living at Home because of the parent company’s sterling [...]

Yes, you CAN legally print your own “money” at home.
I’m not talking about direct mail, creating printed information products, sales letters or other ideas associated with “printing your own money at home”.
Instead I’m talking about IRS sanctioned local currencies.
The Grand Daddy of such currencies here in the U.S. is the “Ithaca Hour”.
It was started [...]

I was working at a Disaster Assistance Center yesterday for persons who have left their homes due to Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita.
I was reminded that home business entrepreneur’s are being displaced too.
I got to speak with a single mom who’d worked a flex time job for a local chamber of commerce in the affected area.
As [...]

From the Lansing State Journal
Battle Creek woman’s business goes to the dogs - on purpose
BATTLE CREEK - Krista Howard loves to bake almost as much as she loves her dogs.
So it seemed a risk worth taking, almost a year ago, when she quit her job and decided to combine the two interests.
Now the owner of [...]

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, [...]

Hurricane Katrina ushers in a bonanza for this man.
From RealEstateJournal.com
The phone rings and it’s a man representing the Veterans Administration inquiring about the empty Kmart in this boomtown community about 30 miles west of New Orleans. The caller’s got 200 workers who need office space.
Too late. That building, outfitted with 46 miles of [...]

Shannon Belew started her first home business at age 7 selling home made napkin rings.
According to Mark Cosmetics, a subsidiary of Avon, that makes her the ideal candidate for them.
They market their products on MTV and the WB network and are recruiting sales reps as young as 16.
From the Huntsville Times…

Representatives [...]

Just how big can a “Home Business” get?
Carteret Mortgage is a nationwide provider or home mortgage loans, reverse mortgages, and other home related loans.
It was started at home and has stayed at home to this day while transacting millions of dollars of business.
In fact, virtually all of their loan officers are home based because the [...]