Archive for the 'WAH News' Category

Dan Pink several years ago wrote about the Free Agent Nation. Suprisingly he was a Clinton era policy wonk … not your typical “entrepreneur” chronicling this development. The transformation continues to unfold as the economy restructures from an industrial base to a technology and service base and people who might have worked in a factory [...]

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 [...]

Remember when you were a kid, you’d try to make extra money by having a lemonade stand?
Inc.com is celebrating young entrepreneurs and their lemonade stands with The Best Lemonade Stand In America Contest .
The winner can receive a $1,000 Savings Bond.
So what are you waiting for… encourage a young entrepreneur to enter!

If you’ve got a blog and got the traffic, Blogger Jobs is looking for writers. Here’s the details.
From Blogger Jobs
Blogsvertise.com is looking for bloggers who are interested in getting paid to post a variety of assigned topic entries in their already-existing blogs.
Bloggers will be asked to post short entries on a variety of topics, including [...]

Call your Chamber of Commerce or extension agent and ask what’s being done in YOUR area to encourage Home Businesses?
From the Sun Herald
ENGLEWOOD — Women who have home-based businesses now have some hometown support.
Beginning Thursday, the Women’s Resource Center in partnership with the Englewood-Cape Haze Area Chamber of Commerce will offer the Women’s Home [...]

Craigslist is offering a self employment forum on their site now. When you go to the “jobs” forum, you can then click on a link to the “self-employment forum”.
I’ve just started browsing it but it seems like an interesting place to make content and learn things to say the least.
The Amway and Quixtar promoters were [...]

Here’s a clever way to stop ebook theft… It was done manually by a seller but I’m sure it could be automated for immediate download.
I purchased an online manual that would arrive in adobe acrobat’s Portable Document File format.
Instead of making it downloadable, they sent the book by email.
It’s obviously a book created on a [...]

Launch Net is making “Naked” DSL available to Small Office/Home Office folks who want to “Lose the Phone Company”. For as little as $39.95 per month, you can operate without the phone company and their hassles! Click here to check availability in your area…
Naked DSL is designed for users who want standard DSL [...]

From AuctionBytes Via PowerSellerKing
Outraged at auction fee increases for eBay Stores… one ebayer tries to demonstrate the “Core” of the problem.
One listing stated that the auction for “eBay’s ear” is the seller’s contribution to restore the magic store sellers seem to have taken from eBay, referring to eBay CEO Meg Whitman’s comments to analysts on [...]

OK… you have built a huge MLM downline.
You have thousands of distributors on monthly autoship.
You’re raking in thousands of dollars in profits monthly.
There’s just one problem… you have found the next great project to devote your life to and you need a cash infusion. You realize you won’t be able to work the old opportunity [...]