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Jean Aime writes about changes in the home business market:
Last summer, the Elite small business specialist conducted 15 multi-county workshops on home-based business. Participants from 32 counties and 82 communities attended these workshops, providing a total of 156 usable surveys (a 57% response rate).
Demographic Characteristics
Over three-fourths of those who responded were females between the ages [...]

Dan Poytner has been promoting self publishing for years.
Here are his tips on how to start your own home based publishing business.
Anyone can be a publisher. The publisher is the one who puts up the money. If you invest in your own printing, you are a self-publisher. If you begin to take in manuscripts from [...]

To spare the hapless further embarassment I will not post a link, but I will mention on one of the forums the other day, a budding netpreneur told this story.
He became an affiliate for a program that supposedly told people how to get an expensive set of golf clubs for next to nothing.
Evidently the affiliate [...]

From StartUpNation
1. Do Some Sleuthing
If you’re truly concerned about the competition licking at your heels, check it out thoroughly yourself. You need to experience what customers are experiencing there. See how their pricing or product mix or the overall encounter fares with your own. Certain other ways of spying on your competition can be helpful [...]

Even Innkeepers need a break sometime.
Getting started: Both the PAII and Interim Innkeepers Network sites list innkeeping-education courses, taught by current or former B-and-B owners, usually in their own facilities. Mr. Meyer and his business and personal partner, Linda Rexroat, 63, for example, charge $400 a person ($700 a couple) for a three-day introductory workshop. [...]

Chitika.com offers a unique new pay per click revenue alternative.
Whereas many pap per click systems specialize in text ads, Chitika offers a combination of a picture and text designed to promote “comparison shopping”.
These ads CAN be run on the same page as “contextual text ads” IF the webmaster designates the content to be shown… a [...]

Many people with “daytime jobs” have work at home jobs on the side to prepare for retirement.
I interviewed one such part time “work at home” entrepreneur yesterday.
He plans to retire in a few years, so in the last decade or so he accumulated a portfolio of rental properties.
The mortgages are timed to be paid at [...]

From Don Alm on SowPub
I know a guy in Portland (OR) who gets $150 per car to post the vehicles on Ebay Motors. He posts 10 to 20 cars per month per dealer…which means he collects $1500 to $3,000 A MONTH PER DEALER….and he has 17 independent dealers he does this for (with 1 helper) [...]

“Real” opportunities to work at home are few and far between. Here’s an exceptional one I uncovered today.
Shop At Home TV is based in Antioch, TN.
I spoke with one of their teleworkers.
She works 10 hours per day from home and is paid by an hourly base pay and sales commission on orders she takes.
After working [...]

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