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There’s one thing about economic downturns. The market for Business Opportunity information and work at home programs will GROW. Legitimate information and programs will be in growing demand because people sense the need to generate extra income “just in case” something happens to their job. That’s always been the case… Just consider the trend since [...]

It begins in 2009. Till then, we only had to worry about .com,.net,.info,.us,.biz etc. domain extensions. And most small time marketers still won’t have to worry much… unless they have $185,000 to invest in a unique top level custom domain name to host content like webpage.customextension In other words, as this article speculates there could [...]

Don’t let the news make you believe every business is hurting. There are several that aren’t hurting at all. One of them is doing the CLEAN UP of foreclosed homes. Many people being kicked out of their house aren’t in a mood to leave the residence “white glove” clean. In fact they leave all sorts [...]

Credit card companies are slashing credit limits just to protect themselves from the worsening economy. There are many businesses – home businesses and others – that get their start up “financing” through credit cards. If that’s you, brace yourself if you haven’t gotten one of these notices in the mail. The credit card industry is [...]

Bloomberg: Taxpayers Say NO to Wall Street Bonuses Actually if the truth be known, I think there’s another descriptive phrase in front of that “NO!” but you get the point. While the cufflinked beggars of Wall Street come hat in hand to the US Treasury pleading desperation, they plan to go back to their ornate [...]

According to USA Today, gas is under $2 per gallon in many metro areas. In some areas, there’s even a PRICE WAR going on. Here’s what one station owner had to say: “In the Indianapolis market, some competitors were so eager to go below $2 that we had a price war,” says Jay Ricker, who [...]

Joe the Plumber is good for business evidently. After Joe Wurzelbacher gained his “15 minutes of fame” as a media star, the website BusinessesForSale.com saw a spike in interest in the sale of small plumbing firms! If it’s good enough for Joe, it suddenly was good enough with people looking to buy businesses! Marcus Markou [...]

It’s Election Day today in the US for better or for worse. At least we will be free of the barrage of campaign advertising. What awaits us is anyone’s guess at this point. Spengler, as usual, offers some interesting words appropriate for the occasion. Hopefully they are not prophetic. Though the media has done it’s [...]

Bartering Increases As Credit Disappears. It happens all the time. Credit dries up. Money is not available, but people have products and services to trade. It’s called “non market wealth”. It’s called “excess inventory” or “underutilized assets”. But whatever you call it, it’s a potential resource for staying in business or building your business if [...]

A business opportunity lurks in the ruthless corporate cost cuttingbusinesses and institutions are doing just to stay afloat. Note how one electrician was called to help slash a huge electric bill. Was he wise enough to say to himself… “If one of my customers needs this, maybe ALL of them do?” Then he might have [...]