Archive for the 'Trends' Category

Ebay may be cutting or their nose to spite their face by alienating the home school community. Reportedly there are 2.5 million home schooled children and the number continues to grow as people feel alienated from the public school bureaucracy.  Why ebay is sucking up to them instead of its customers is hard to imagine. […]

So far, I’ve seen bloggers using Skypecast to reach out to their audiences.

I imagine network marketers can use this too for small downline meetings (up to 100) or any sales network for that matter which is connected via the Internet.
Churches could use it for digitally linked Bible studies.
Professionals might be able to use this for […]

Large network marketing organizations tend to be diligent about collecting sales tax.
If yours is not, problems may lie ahead.
From Jim Richmond Professional Tax Services taxman_jr@yahoo.com via www.mlmatty.com…
One of the more perplexing questions facing direct selling companies today is the administration of state and local sales taxes. The general rule of law places the responsibility to […]

In all the talk about “outsourcing”, “downsizing”, and the loss of manufacturing jobs who profits?
Of course the overseas laborers themselves make a pittance.
It’s the importers though who are making the lion’s share of the profits while, for example, the Chinese firms operate with narrow margins.
That makes sense of something that happened here. I live in […]

As the economy shifts, people in transition are inventing a variety of new products, procedures, and other inventions that could change the face of America and the world… and it’s not just in Silicon Valley either. Far from it.
From Start Up Journal
Paul Ryznar was a vice president of operations at Detroit Diesel when he […]

Dan Pink several years ago wrote about the Free Agent Nation. Suprisingly he was a Clinton era policy wonk … not your typical “entrepreneur” chronicling this development. The transformation continues to unfold as the economy restructures from an industrial base to a technology and service base and people who might have worked in a factory […]

Just for fun, let’s do some math…
Did you know that if you work until you’re 65, and live until you’re 85, you need $240,000 saved up just to “get by” on $12,000 a year? Do you know where you stand right now?
1. Subtract your current age from 65 (85 - ___) =… That’s […]

From Wired.com
A Canadian company has made the jump to cedar-wood 2.0, modding its standard hot-tub enclosure and marketing it as a backyard DIY home office kit.
Cedarsheds specializes in gazebos and spa enclosures, and each kit includes a customer survey. The company noticed a demand for home office kits surfacing in the surveys and got serious […]

Here’s the new Weed Burner. It let’s macho gardener types take out their frustration on the weeds by burning them down. Come to think of it, this may be the only way known to man to get me to work in the garden.
The question is… are gadgets like this a way for you to make […]

As usual, our politicians fiddle while Rome, in this case America, burns. Raising minimum wages in an era of expanding self employment where business owners are less likely to have employees anyway will increase the likelihood of the unskilled and underskilled finding any work and tend towards more unemployment.
From The Entrepreneurial Mind
We are in a […]