Archive for the 'Trends' Category

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 [...]

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 [...]