Archive for the 'Trends' Category

Ebay’s getting into the contextual ad business as reported by Yahoo
Michael van Swaaij, eBay’s chief strategy officer, told a conference of software developers here on Saturday of plans to allow eBay’s army of auctioneers to run contextual ads on other Web sites in exchange for a cut of the resulting eBay sales.
Ebay has an existing affiliate [...]

Is your deepest longing to be a business success? At least to have enough success to have the lifestyle you want without and do work you love?
Then most likely you want the same for your children.
In our economy, those making career decisions now had better not rule out entrepreneurship if they don’t want to constantly [...]

For years, the Big Interet Companies - Yahoo, Microsoft, and now Google - envisioned a world where users don’t store data locally but on huge servers. Users would only have devices to connect to the data.
The limitation in superiority in this battle is the number of servers… this report says Microsoft has 200,000 where Google has over 450,000.
Here’s something about [...]

When the Fed worries about “inflation” the stock market tumbles.
The news media wants you to think that inflation comes because of “rising prices” but really rising prices come because of inflation.
Why? The government prints money to cover it’s bills and makes the money in your bank account increasingly worthless.
That’s why people used to like the [...]

How are families and entrepreneurs dealing with continuing high gasoline prices?
Some are taking advantage of loyalty programs offered by the grocery chains who see discounted gas as a loss leader for boosting their grocery business.
When Central Ohio supermarkets began launching loyalty programs several years ago, Michelle Moore signed up for all of them.
The programs, such [...]

A few weeks ago a local Tennessee politician got on the air with talk host Steve Gill to explain why they sneakily increased their own pensions and attempted to hide it.
He explained that “everybody else” had cost of living increases in their pension plans.
Of course anyone with a brain - unlike this polititician - knows that “most [...]

Want to have a Latino Blog for marketing purposes or personal fun?
VoyBlogs.com is offering FREE BLOGS to Latino oriented blogs.
This seems like an interesting niche to exploit if you have the skills.
Go for it!

I was talking to an industry insider in the medical transcription field the other day and she dispelled some common myths.
When people today start thinking about doing Medical Transcription at home or in an office or hospital, there are many who tell them… “that field won’t be around long due to technology”.
The implication is that [...]

Actually it would be their ADVISORS because the assets of policy makers should ethically be in blind trusts so that the big wig can’t be accused of “insider trading”. (Still Senators’ portfolio’s seem to do so much better than the average American’s, but I digress…)
But MSN Money is reporting that Dick Cheney’s advisors seem to be [...]

Tuesday night I’ll be at a meeting of a company seeking to open in my rural town.
They’re a national company doing medical transcription.
Due to contract obligations, the transcription must be done “in house”… no home based transcription.
I was asked if this would be a problem for people who normally want to work at home.
“No…”
Here if [...]