Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Here’s a common internet marketing error you can see at Craigslist today. They did the RIGHT THING by putting this under SERVICES since this is NOT a job and violates the TOS of Craigslist Jobs boards. I’m reproducing the ad here so you can test yourself. What’s the mistake? (I made the picture much smaller [...]

Tuesday night I’ll be at a meeting of a company seeking to open in my rural town. They’re a national company doing medical transcription. Due to contract obligations, the transcription must be done “in house”… no home based transcription. I was asked if this would be a problem for people who normally want to work [...]

North Carolina realtors according to the Triad Business Journal As a Realtor with Re/Max, Marks drives about 400 miles each week just for business. And because all Realtors, even those with large national firms, are independent contractors, Marks is not reimbursed for gas or vehicle maintenance costs. “From a business sense, it just makes more [...]

From Seth Godin   Yes, there are 54 ways not to mention pay per click advertising. Use lists. Be topical… write posts that need to be read right now. Learn enough to become the expert in your field. Break news. Be timeless… write posts that will be readable in a year. Be among the first [...]

  Blogger is a very easy to use and free blog service, but the templates DO leave something to be desired. Also, since the internal blogger police are cracking down on every blog their computers tell them is a “spam blog”, it’s the variations you’ve done to your template (among other things) that signal your [...]

  I was surfing the web yesterday browsing through available scripts just to see “what’s out there”… in case I had a brain storm for a website. Oh well, at least web surfing is cheaper than my old pinball habit. Anyway, I came across some relatively inexpensive software bundles I thought you might like looking [...]

Your home business could be dramatically increasing your home electric bill. Taking a few simple steps could reduce your overhead without reducing your profits. As energy prices increase, this may be worth considering for you.  From the Wonder Working Words ezine Zap Phantom Loads To Save Energy Once upon a time, when you turned off an [...]

Ebay, the engine of internet capitalism is parterning with Yahoo. This should help the overture network expand search opportunities for their advertisers, but what will it do for the ebayers who are trying to run a business online? Hopefully it will mean that their auction listings will be served up on the Yahoo search network [...]

If you’d like to provide a service where you tutor students in their homes and earn $25 to $35 per hour but don’t know how to get clients, Wyzant.com offers a complete online prospecting and scheduling service. It might be just what you’e looking for. Be sure to check the Terms of Service carefully to [...]

Via Dane…  Last week, AT&T announced new initiatives to provide broadband Internet access to their previously under-served rural and inner-city markets. The initiatives include three components: Offering a satellite-based broadband service later this month in select rural markets in AT&T’s residential service territory, most of which are not served by landline broadband services today. Affirming [...]