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Shoemoney tells how a recently passed bill by Congress is making online gambling illegal in the U.S. I’ve got friends who are ex gambling addicts whose lives were nearly destroyed by gambling, so I’ve never promoted such affiliate programs. But they’ve been very popular among online affiliates trying to work from home because they were [...]

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 can find it, too? Google Base Store Connector is a free download that puts info about your store into [...]

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 [...]

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”, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]