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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 [...]

I first heard about such work at home teams through Dan Pink’s book “Free Agent Nation”. You may never have heard of it… used copies are available for a buck or so. But Pink documented the transition within our economy of the move towards free agents working at home or self employment as we used [...]

Doing market research? Need access to an expensive database of demographic data? Selling to a particular market and want to know who your target businesses are and exactly where they’re located? Your local public library may have just the help you need. As libraries seek a reason to exist in the Google age, many are [...]

I knew a Methodist preacher once who said he hoped the district superintendent would assign him to four churches – not unusual in rural areas. Why? “So nobody will ever know where I’m supposed to be,” was the answer. By being mobile, he could dictate his own schedule and accomplish the things he felt were [...]

Younger workers aged 34, give or take, are leaving New Hampshire at a precipitous rate that threatens the healt of the economy long term according to the Concord Monitor. High rents, lack of activities, and most importantly lack of good jobs is causing kids to look elsewhere for work. Some hope that telecommuting could be [...]

Ebay may be cutting or their nose to spite their face by alienating the home school community. Reportedly there are 2.5 million home schooled children and the number continues to grow as people feel alienated from the public school bureaucracy.  Why ebay is sucking up to them instead of its customers is hard to imagine. [...]

So far, I’ve seen bloggers using Skypecast to reach out to their audiences. I imagine network marketers can use this too for small downline meetings (up to 100) or any sales network for that matter which is connected via the Internet. Churches could use it for digitally linked Bible studies. Professionals might be able to [...]

Large network marketing organizations tend to be diligent about collecting sales tax. If yours is not, problems may lie ahead. From Jim Richmond Professional Tax Services taxman_jr@yahoo.com via www.mlmatty.com… One of the more perplexing questions facing direct selling companies today is the administration of state and local sales taxes. The general rule of law places [...]

In all the talk about “outsourcing”, “downsizing”, and the loss of manufacturing jobs who profits? Of course the overseas laborers themselves make a pittance. It’s the importers though who are making the lion’s share of the profits while, for example, the Chinese firms operate with narrow margins. That makes sense of something that happened here. [...]

As the economy shifts, people in transition are inventing a variety of new products, procedures, and other inventions that could change the face of America and the world… and it’s not just in Silicon Valley either. Far from it. From Start Up Journal Paul Ryznar was a vice president of operations at Detroit Diesel when [...]