Archive for the 'Trends' Category

Click here to download Google’s new “Store Connector”.
It’s free and install in seconds.
Here’s what it does…
If you have an online store with eBay, Amazon or Yahoo, why not make sure that Google users [...]

Click Fraud is a business. As one trade show exhibitor said, when he was at the trade show his conversion rate doubled. Why? The competitors clicking his ads to deplete his ad budget were too busy at their tradeshow booths to spend their day clicking on their competitor’s ads.
But Click Fraud is much more than [...]

There’s lots of buzz about a new breed of virtual businesses which I posted on yesterday, you’d think that Americans were all computer geniuses poised evolve beyond the need to sweat.
Sadly, that’s far from the case.
Instead it looks like instead of turning out High School Graduates with the former designations of “cum laude”, “summa cul [...]

Blogger Pamela Slim of Escape From Cubicle Nation is quoted at length in the Boston Globe!
Why? She opines that with the advent of the “virtual company” there may be fewer brick and mortar businesses to “telecommute” to.
Pamela Slim, who blogs at Escape From Cubicle Nation, says a perfect storm of factors is converging to make [...]

If job growth is an indicator of the overall business climate in general, then here are some of the best and worst places to be in business. The more businesses in general, then the more likely there will be customers for service related home businesses and telecommuters.
Florida has the fastest job growth overall with the [...]

If you’re on the verge investing in one of those “get rich in real estate” courses, it could work. Or it could not. Keep reading…
One out of five flippers who sold a home from April to June of this year lost money on the deal, says HomeSmartReports.com. That’s the highest ratio of losses in two [...]

As you can tell at the Business Opportunities network, Dane uses Yahoo’s pay per click network quite a bit. Many other publishers seem to be making similar moves.
If the Yahoo Network has the advertising inventory for your niche, it might be a good option for you if you can get approved.
I mention that to say [...]

The recent discoveries of massive oil reserves in the US Gulf are not hampering voices wanting to cash in on the change to the “hydrogen” economy.
Because South Carolina labs studied hydrogen during the Cold War, the state hopes this preponderance of brain talent will make it the “center of the universe” for switching the US [...]

Elaine Chao the Secretary for Labor told G. Gordon Liddy’s audience today her belief about the preponderance of “outsourcing” to cheap labor markets.
Is it simply because of cheap labor?
No.
In fact, she sited that the “cheap labor” was offset by additional costs of adapting to foreign languages and cultures.
The productivity of the American workforce is unequalled [...]

Speaking of Dan Pink, he’s got a new book out now called A Whole New Mind: Moving From The Information Age To The Conceptual Age.
The importance of the concept was highlighted to me yesterday by something a local employer said. He said people come in to be hired without the specific skills he’s seeking but [...]