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Is there money handling equipment leases for other businesses?
This franchise hopes so.
Whether it profits or not, it’s existence shows that the small business, home business, microenterprise field is growing prominently as people seek leasing options for boostrapping their businesses.
From St. Paul Pioneer Press
Equipment leasing franchises are an unproven concept. Wirth is one of only two […]

I always love it when “experts” (whoever they are) “warn” people about the “dangers” of working at home.
It’s as if working away from home was not a fairly recent  development as a result of the Industrial Revolution… working from home has been the norm through human history as couples like this one are finding out!
From […]

Craigslist is indeed a “Classified Advertising Site” but that doesn’t mean the ads have to look boring.Some graphic designers are known for their work that specializes in creating ads that pull in orders for Craigslist advertisers.
One of those web designers is LonzoDesigns.com. You can click the link to see more of their custom work.

From New Scientist…
AS if being bottom of the social pile isn’t bad enough, it now seems that it also makes the body’s cells age prematurely.
People from lower socio-economic groups are more likely to die earlier than people in non-manual jobs from heart attacks, strokes and cancer. Unhealthy habits such as lack of exercise, excess weight, […]

Wal Mart’s latest online move is to cash in on the Teen Scene with their own MySpace clone… The Hub
The power of social networking sites is such that even the biggest retailer in the world had to take a look.
From AdAge:
Desperate to appeal to teens with something other than pencils and backpacks during the crucial […]

New Zealand’s teleworking community is growing slowly and still relatively low tech. It is expected to increase with the proliferation of broadband connections and formal telecommuting policies.From the New Zealand Herald
[Telework Consultant Bevis] England says a well established telework programme will typically deliver a business $300,000 per 100 employees per year in cost savings […]

Major Newspapers chains seeing their revenues dwindle precipitously are are jumping on board with Yahoo.
Yahoo hopes the joint venture will provide unique content and more exposure for their HotJobs.com job listings.
Newspapers hope to get a share of the revenue from the contextual ads Yahoo will display with their content.
And Yahoo’s penetration into local markets will […]

Ebay, owners of Paypal, will not accept Google Checkout as a viable means of payment on their site.
From what I understand, Google Checkout would only be available to a relatively small number of individuals anyway, not the average ebayer, but still you can hear the cats snarling “MEOW!”
From SearchEngineGuide
In what could be taken as […]

How are things looking for your business? Do you expect things to improve? Worsen? Stay the same? While any given business can skyrocket or nose dive at any given time, the trend expected by many of the nation’s small business owners is that things are getting tight…
From the Entrepreneurial Mind…
In a new survey from NFIB […]

Veterans can tap into franchising thanks to this new program, Vet Fran
For Andy Anderson, it program has opened the path to a longtime goal.
“ I spent a lot of years in the military, and I felt that when my call in the military was up that I would move on and do something for […]